More Instrument than Data
Science, Technology, & Human Values
Published online on April 01, 2026
Abstract
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
We call for renewed attention to the “upstream” of data, to the means and challenges of their generation, that is, to the techniques and apparatuses of instrumentation. Our aim is to inspect how reference—what data are “of,” “for” or “about”—gets worked ...
We call for renewed attention to the “upstream” of data, to the means and challenges of their generation, that is, to the techniques and apparatuses of instrumentation. Our aim is to inspect how reference—what data are “of,” “for” or “about”—gets worked ...