Stephen Slota will discuss how time and temporality, conceived of as both sociomaterial practice and as a set of rhythms to be resolved for collaborative knowledge work, impacts the delivery and coordination of services for people experiencing homelessness in the City of Austin. This work reports interviews conducted with 31 stakeholders in the City of Austin Continuum of Care, and discusses the 'temporal dissonance' arising from differing organizational and practical rhythms of data work and service provision, building upon prior literature in organizational and infrastructure studies.
Steve Slota is a Boyvey Teaching Fellow and researcher at the iSchool at UT Austin, whose research focuses on the socio-technical analysis of knowledge infrastructures and the ethical development and use of technology. His current work focuses on the data and organizational dynamics of service provision for homelessness in the City of Austin, and he has previously studied conceptions of the ethical, social, and policy impacts of AI among its experts and stakeholders, the infrastructural dynamics and science policy of novel data science, and the development of cyber infrastructure for the geosciences.
Part of the Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series hosted twice monthly in spring 2022. Learn more and register.