Will Orr
@willo.bsky.social
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Phd candidate @ usc annenberg // data + cultures + logics + regulation
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@miriamposner.com this may be of interest for you!
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Please message me if you would like a copy of the article
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I have been working on this paper across a few graduate seminars. So special thanks to @mikeananny.bsky.social , @taramcpherson.bsky.social, and Christina Visperas, for their helpful feedback. Thanks also to the @sigcisconf.bsky.social, where I presented an earlier version of this work.
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This is part of an awesome special issue edited by @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and @monasloane.bsky.social that asks ‘What is sociological about AI?’
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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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I thought this was about LaTeX and I was like same too much work
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We are so grateful!
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Yay Stephen congrats!!