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Biography [eng]

Martin Berg is Professor of Media Technology and Associate Professor of Sociology. His research interests include digital sociology as well as critical studies of algorithms and automation processes.

Biography [swe]

Martin Berg är professor i medieteknik och docent i sociologi vid Malmö universitet. Hans forskning kretsar kring digital sociologi, med särskilt fokus på kritiska studier av algoritmer och automatiseringsprocesser.

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Fors, V., Berg, M. & Brodersen, M. (Eds.). (2024). The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures: Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures: Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact
2024 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

How does automation affect us, our environment, and our imaginations? What actions should we take in response to automation? Beyond grand narratives and technology-driven visions of the future, what more can automation offer?

With these questions in mind, The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures provides a framework for thinking about and implementing automation differently. It consolidates automated futures as an inter- and transdisciplinary research field, embedding the imaginaries, interactions, and impacts of automation technology within their social, historical, societal, cultural, and political contexts. Promoting a critical yet constructive and engaging agenda, the handbook invites readers to collaborate with rather than resist automation agendas. It does so by pushing the agenda for social science, humanities and design beyond merely assessing and evaluating existing technologies. Instead, the handbook demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences are essential to the design and governance of sustainable sociotechnical systems. Methodologically, the handbook is underpinned by a pedagogical approach to staging co-learning and co-creation of automated futures with, rather than simply for, people. In this way, the handbook encourages readers to explore new and alternative modes of research, fostering a deeper engagement with the evolving landscape of automation.

- integrates perspectives at both philosophical and practical levels

- a guide to imaginaries and interactions with automation technology that cuts across different fields

- demonstrates how co-learning and co-creation can be staged and analysed

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. p. 466
Series
De Gruyter Handbooks of Digital Transformation, ISSN 2940-7249, E-ISSN 2940-7257 ; 2
Keywords
Automated Futures, interaction design, social science, humanities, emerging technologies
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Smart Cities and Communities, REBEL
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-54338 (URN)9783110792249 (ISBN)9783110792256 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-07-30 Created: 2024-07-30 Last updated: 2024-07-30Bibliographically approved
Fors, V., Pink, S., Berg, M. & O'Dell, T. (2019). Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking (1ed.). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic
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2019 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to its past, present and possible future. Building on social science approaches the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working in design, philosophy and human-computer interaction. It problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking devices, presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory and affective experiences of self-tracking, and questions the status of big data. In doing so, the book proposes an agenda for future research and design that puts people at its centre.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. p. 208 Edition: 1
Keywords
self tracking, ethnography
National Category
Interaction Technologies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40422 (URN)9781350051409 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Available from: 2019-08-21 Created: 2019-08-21 Last updated: 2020-05-12Bibliographically approved
Lindgren, T., Bergquist, M., Pink, S., Berg, M. & Fors, V. (2018). Experiencing Expectations: Extending the Concept of UX Anticipation. In: Sune Dueholm Müller & Jeppe Agger Nielsen (Ed.), Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 9th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2018, Odder, Denmark, August 5–8, 2018, Proceedings. Paper presented at 9th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2018, Odder, Denmark, August 5–8, 2018 (pp. 1-13). Cham: Springer, 326
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2018 (English)In: Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 9th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2018, Odder, Denmark, August 5–8, 2018, Proceedings / [ed] Sune Dueholm Müller & Jeppe Agger Nielsen, Cham: Springer, 2018, Vol. 326, p. 1-13Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper demonstrates the role of pre-product user experience (UX) in product design. For automotive companies, questions concerning how users will experience not yet available products is pressing - due to an increase in UX design for products, combined with a decrease in time-to-market for new products. Conventional UX research provides insights through investigating specific situated moments during use, or users’ reflections after use, yet cannot provide knowledge about how users will engage with not yet existing products. To understand pre-product UX we undertook a netnographic study of three people’s experiences of expecting and owning a Tesla car. We identified how modes of anticipation evolve before using the actual car, through online social interaction, creating a pre-product experience. The study offers a foundation for theorizing pre-product UX as socially generated anticipated UX, as well as insights for UX design in industry. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2018
Series
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, ISSN 1865-1348, E-ISSN 1865-1356 ; 326
Keywords
User Experience, Expectations, Automotive, Anticipation
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-37964 (URN)10.1007/978-3-319-96367-9_1 (DOI)2-s2.0-85050003591 (Scopus ID)978-3-319-96366-2 (ISBN)978-3-319-96367-9 (ISBN)
Conference
9th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2018, Odder, Denmark, August 5–8, 2018
Projects
Human Experiences and Expectations of Autonomous Driving (HEAD)
Funder
VINNOVA, 2016-02515
Available from: 2018-09-13 Created: 2018-09-13 Last updated: 2021-05-11Bibliographically approved
Berg, M., Fors, V. & Willim, R. (Eds.). (2018). Samverkansformer: Nya vägar för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (8ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Samverkansformer: Nya vägar för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
2018 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018. p. 244 Edition: 8
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-36616 (URN)978-91-44-12138-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-04-16 Created: 2018-04-16 Last updated: 2019-04-26Bibliographically approved
Pink, S., Fors, V. & Berg, M. (2017). Sensory, Digital and Visual Methodologies. In: Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews & Holly Thorpe (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies: (pp. 528-536). Abingdon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sensory, Digital and Visual Methodologies
2017 (English)In: Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies / [ed] Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews & Holly Thorpe, Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, p. 528-536Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2017
Series
Routledge International Handbooks
Keywords
Ethnography, senses, digital, visual, body monitoring
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33362 (URN)2-s2.0-85025620812 (Scopus ID)978-1-138-81721-0 (ISBN)978-1-315-74566-4 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P14-0367:1
Available from: 2017-02-27 Created: 2017-02-27 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Berg, M. & Fors, V. (2017). Workshops as Nodes of Knowledge Co-production: Beyond Ideas of Automagical Synergies. In: Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors & Tom O'Dell (Ed.), Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice: (pp. 53-72). New York: Berghahn Books
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Workshops as Nodes of Knowledge Co-production: Beyond Ideas of Automagical Synergies
2017 (English)In: Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice / [ed] Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors & Tom O'Dell, New York: Berghahn Books, 2017, p. 53-72Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Berghahn Books, 2017
Series
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 11
Keywords
Applied ethnography, Co-production
National Category
Social Anthropology Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33046 (URN)2-s2.0-85049219364 (Scopus ID)978-1-78533-416-0 (ISBN)978-1-78533-417-7 (ISBN)
Projects
SCACA
Available from: 2017-01-13 Created: 2017-01-13 Last updated: 2020-02-03Bibliographically approved
Fors, V., Berg, M. & Pink, S. (2016). Capturing the Ordinary: Imagining the User in Designing Automatic Photographic Lifelogging Technologies. In: Stefan Selke (Ed.), Lifelogging: Digital self-tracking and Lifelogging - between disruptive technology and cultural transformation (pp. 111-128). Wiesbaden: Springer
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Capturing the Ordinary: Imagining the User in Designing Automatic Photographic Lifelogging Technologies
2016 (English)In: Lifelogging: Digital self-tracking and Lifelogging - between disruptive technology and cultural transformation / [ed] Stefan Selke, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2016, p. 111-128Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this chapter we discuss how automatic wearable cameras are imagined by their designers. Such technologies have most often been approached from a user perspective, which overlooks how developers invest their personal experiences and emotions into the technologies. Focusing on the Narrative clip - a camera that takes a photo every 30 seconds, we show how developers its developers have imagined this camera as a device that enables people to gain access to the assumed authenticity of a recordable world, that exists externally to the human wearing the device. As this example shows, when we account for developers’ visions and imaginations, particular stories emerge. Thus, we argue it is important to account for these and the agency they might have in the possibilities created by automated technologies. © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiesbaden: Springer, 2016
National Category
Pedagogy Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-31279 (URN)10.1007/978-3-658-13137-1_6 (DOI)2-s2.0-85031105663 (Scopus ID)978-3-658-13136-4 (ISBN)978-3-658-13137-1 (ISBN)
Projects
Sensing, shaping, sharing: Imagining the body in a mediatized world
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P14-0367:1
Available from: 2016-06-20 Created: 2016-06-20 Last updated: 2020-05-12Bibliographically approved
Fors, V., Berg, M. & Eriksson, J. (2016). Cooking for perfection: Transhumanism and the mysteries of kitchen mastery. Confero: Essays on education, philosophy and politics, 4(2), 111-135
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Cooking for perfection: Transhumanism and the mysteries of kitchen mastery
2016 (English)In: Confero: Essays on education, philosophy and politics, E-ISSN 2001-4562, Vol. 4, no 2, p. 111-135Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2016
National Category
Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-32762 (URN)10.3384/confero.2001-4562.161213 (DOI)
Projects
Sensing, Shaping, Sharing
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P14-0367:1
Available from: 2016-12-20 Created: 2016-12-20 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved
Berg, M. (2016). Smart jewellery: measuring the unknown. In: : . Paper presented at 4S/EASST 2016 Barcelona: Science and technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures, Barcelona, Spain, August 31-September 3, 2016.
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2016 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Self-tracking devices and apps often measure and provide interpretations of personal data in a rather straightforward way, for instance by visualising the speed and distance of a run or the quality of sleep during a night. There is however a growing number of devices that take the data analysis further by providing insights and algorithmic advices about domains of our lives that are otherwise thought of as difficult to grasp. This paper explores two devices of this kind, namely the Moodmetric and the ŌURA which are two recently released smart rings with associated mobile apps that claim to measure emotions and rest, promote happiness and help users to perform better. Whereas several studies have shed light over how users engage with self-tracking apps and devices, little attention has been paid to how these technologies stem from dreams, hopes and imaginaries of designers and developers. This paper approaches self-tracking from a producer perspective in order to frame how users and their everyday lives are imagined by designers and how these assumptions are built into the technologies. Empirically, the paper is based on a content analysis of blog posts, marketing materials and user guides from the ŌURA and Moodmetric companies along with video interviews with company representatives as well as recordings of their public appearances. Engaging with the field of software studies as well as the emerging field of self-tracking studies, this paper aims at providing a basis for further design oriented studies of self-tracking.

National Category
Sociology Human Computer Interaction Design Media and Communication Technology Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-31922 (URN)
External cooperation:
Conference
4S/EASST 2016 Barcelona: Science and technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures, Barcelona, Spain, August 31-September 3, 2016
Projects
Sensing, shaping, sharing: Imagining the body in a mediatized world
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P14-0367:1
Available from: 2016-09-02 Created: 2016-09-02 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Berg, M., Pink, S. & Fors, V. (2015). Automation in the Wild: exploring empathy. In: Sarah Pink & Yoko Akama (Ed.), Un/Certainty: (pp. 50-55). Melbourne: RMIT University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Automation in the Wild: exploring empathy
2015 (English)In: Un/Certainty / [ed] Sarah Pink & Yoko Akama, Melbourne: RMIT University , 2015, p. 50-55Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Melbourne: RMIT University, 2015
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) Pedagogy Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-29082 (URN)978-0-9943330-1-8 (ISBN)
Projects
SCACA
Available from: 2015-08-03 Created: 2015-08-03 Last updated: 2020-05-12Bibliographically approved
Projects
Sensing, shaping, sharing: Imagining the body in a mediatized world [P14-0367:1_RJ]; Halmstad University; Publications
Fors, V., Pink, S., Berg, M. & O'Dell, T. (2019). Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking (1ed.). London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic
Self-tracking and automatised bodies; Malmö UniversityHuman Expectation and Experience of Autonomous Driving, HEAD; Publications
Pink, S., Smith, R. C., Fors, V., Lund, J., Raats, K., Osz, K., . . . Broström, R. (2021). Mobility as a Service Through Design: A Human Approach (1ed.). In: S. Coxon; R. Napper (Ed.), Advancing a Design Approach to Enriching Public Mobility: (pp. 1-17). Cham: Springer Publishing Company
Re-humanising Automated Decision-Making; Malmö University
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-7628-5829

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