Will Orr (@willo.bsky.social)

Will Orr

@willo.bsky.social

Phd candidate @ usc annenberg // data + cultures + logics + regulation

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@willo.bsky.social

5 Aug 2025

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...

doi.orgGhosts in the Data: The Contested Politics of Absence in Data Infrastructures - Will Orr, 2025Absences are inescapable in data. Data collection always focuses on some elements while occluding others. Yet, how absences are considered and recorded within d...

Will Orr

@willo.bsky.social

5 Aug 2025

@miriamposner.com this may be of interest for you!

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.

Will Orr

@willo.bsky.social

5 Aug 2025

Please message me if you would like a copy of the article

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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