4 papers
Exchange, obligation, accountability: Moral orders of technology repair in Kampala, Uganda
Daniel Mwesigwa, Steven J. Jackson
This chapter develops the concept of moral orders of repair, defined as the specific norms, rules, values, and expectations that structure and support joint work and exchange in re…
To Tango or to Disentangle? Making Ethnography Public in the Digital Age
Daniel Mwesigwa, Cyan DeVeaux, Palashi Vaghela
Ethnography attends to relations among people, practices, and the technologies that mediate them. Central to this method is the duality of roles ethnographers navigate as researche…
Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya
Daniel Mwesigwa, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher Csikszentmihalyi
Credit scoring is an increasingly central and contested domain of data and AI governance, frequently framed as a neutral and objective method of assessing risk across diverse econo…
Against 'softmaxing' culture
Daniel Mwesigwa
AI is flattening culture. Evaluations of "culture" are showing the myriad ways in which large AI models are homogenizing language and culture, averaging out rich linguistic differe…