Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

SSI fellow

University of Warwick

I work as a Senior Research Software Engineer at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. I am an interdisciplinary researcher whose research articulates around how physical and digital infrastructures, especially those that are commonly produced, respond to and are shaped by societal challenges. My research interests revolve around the social aspect of technology and methods to surface the world-views that are invariably embedded in technical artefacts such as software or platforms.

Although technology has been an important part of most of my life, I’m more interested the people who make them and the values and world views that are produced and reproduced in their creation than in technologies as artifacts.

This understanding of technology has made me focus on three main aspects:

The first one is the communities that govern and produce technologies. That’s why I’ve been involved in a number of communities, either as a regular member or contributor, or sometimes taking a leading role, like in the Warwick R-user group or founding Collaborative Mapping, an association aimed to promote collaborative cartographies and empower citizenship through action-research projects. 

The second one is a critical understanding of technology. I tend to enquiry about why, how and where is it made, who is it made for or the consequences of their make.

The third one is collective action as a way of producing transformative, impactful research.

My SSI fellowship will build in these two aspects to critically enquiry about the tensions that arise from incorporating AI in Higher Education.