Queer ecological data: Where artificial intelligence meets the avian

IF 4.5 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Maya Livio, Natalia Sánchez-Querubín
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Abstract

Nonhuman life is increasingly analyzed and acted upon through big data and AI tools. Birds in particular are among the most datafied wild beings. However, avian—like human—data sets present challenges of bias, misclassification, and harmful collection methods. For example, avian data includes bias along lines of sex and sexuality, female, queer, and intersex birds are significantly understudied. These missing birds not only represent consequences for biodiversity loss but also “naturalize” assumptions about sex and sexuality for all species, including humans. In this article, we interrogate avian datafication practices and introduce Salvaging Birds, a multimodal project proposing “queer data surrogacy” as a method for generating “queer ecological data,” that is data resisting normative environmental frameworks. Here queer data surrogates were produced by creatively subverting AI toward generating speculative missing birds. Bridging critical data and archival studies with queer ecology, we argue that data logics demand examination at nonhuman sites and scales.
奇怪的生态数据:人工智能与鸟类相遇的地方
越来越多的非人类生命通过大数据和人工智能工具进行分析和行动。尤其是鸟类,是数据最丰富的野生生物之一。然而,类似禽类的人类数据集面临着偏见、错误分类和有害收集方法的挑战。例如,鸟类数据包括性别和性取向方面的偏见,对雌性、酷儿和双性鸟的研究明显不足。这些消失的鸟类不仅代表了生物多样性丧失的后果,而且“自然化”了所有物种(包括人类)对性和性行为的假设。在本文中,我们对鸟类数据化实践进行了质疑,并介绍了“拯救鸟类”,这是一个多模式项目,提出“酷儿数据替代”作为生成“酷儿生态数据”的方法,即抵制规范环境框架的数据。在这里,酷儿数据替代品是通过创造性地颠覆人工智能来产生推测失踪的鸟类。将关键数据和档案研究与酷儿生态学联系起来,我们认为数据逻辑需要在非人类的地点和尺度上进行检查。
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New Media & Society
New Media & Society COMMUNICATION-
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12.70
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期刊介绍: New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. The journal includes contributions on: -the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media -the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change -contemporary as well as historical developments -the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice.
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