Myself and Dr. Lily House-Peters are excited to share coauthored article:
“Unblackboxing mediation in the digital mine”
Available open access here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718523000714?dgcid=coauthor
Highlights
- Digitization and automation of mining amplifies abstraction and decontextualization.
- Conceptualizes the digital mine as a self-reinforcing earth-as-mine feedback loop.
- Utilizes theories of mediation to unblackbox technical relations of smart mine.
- Automation can transform the conceptual god’s-eye-view into the hand-of-god.
- Digital twin transmutes complex milieu into dominant representation of target site.
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