Will Orr
@willo.bsky.social
Phd candidate @ usc annenberg // data + cultures + logics + regulation
My new paper examines the history of data infrastructures and how they grapple with absent and incomplete information. Exploring the tension between the desire for certainty and acknowledging partiality, I advocate for recognising the ‘ghosts’ that haunt data systems. doi.org/10.1177/0894...
Ghosts in the Data: The Contested Politics of Absence in Data Infrastructures - Will Orr, 2025
Absences are inescapable in data. Data collection always focuses on some elements while occluding others. Yet, how absences are considered and recorded within d...
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August 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My new paper examines the history of data infrastructures and how they grapple with absent and incomplete information. Exploring the tension between the desire for certainty and acknowledging partiality, I advocate for recognising the ‘ghosts’ that haunt data systems. doi.org/10.1177/0894...