The Ambient Politics of Affective Computing

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9435427

A. Wu

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Much attention to affective computing has focused on its alleged ability to “tap into human affects,” a trope also foundational to broader theorizations about big-data surveillance. What remains understudied and undertheorized is affective computing’s social life, where interested parties contest and collude on its deployment. This essay traces how such portable technologies as sentiment analysis and “like” buttons wound up redefining collective action in China, which partly explains the conservative turn observed in Chinese online cultures since the mid-2010s. It unpacks affective computing’s ambient politics—the fraught processes whereby social actors aggressively repackage, reinterpret, and remediate these technologies to fit their agendas, changing social standards for denoting emotions along the way. This essay calls to reorient critical analysis of affective computing away from its design epistemics to its ambient politics and, in parallel, to shift the focus from interiorized subjects to conditions of collective existence.

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情感计算的环境政治

人们对情感计算的关注主要集中在其所谓的“挖掘人类情感”的能力上，这一比喻也是大数据监控更广泛理论的基础。情感计算的社会生活仍然是研究不足和理论不足的地方，利益相关方在其部署上相互竞争和勾结。本文追溯了情感分析和“赞”按钮等便携式技术如何最终重新定义了中国的集体行动，这在一定程度上解释了自2010年代中期以来中国网络文化中出现的保守转变。它揭示了情感计算的环境政治——社会行动者积极地重新包装、重新解释和补救这些技术以适应他们的议程，从而改变了表达情感的社会标准。本文呼吁将情感计算的批判性分析从其设计认识论转向其环境政治，同时将焦点从内部主体转移到集体存在的条件。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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