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Article ID: CBB037061424

AIS Politics: The Contested Use of Vessel Tracking at the EU’s Maritime Frontier (2019)

Pezzani, Lorenzo (Author)
Heller, Charles (Author)

Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 44
Issue: 5
Pages: 881-899

DOI: 10.1177/0162243919852672

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919852672

Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: Sensors and Sensing Practices
Language: English

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Automatic identification system (AIS) is a vessel tracking system, which since 2004 has become a global tool for the detection and analysis of seagoing traffic. In this article, we look at how this technology, initially designed as a collision avoidance system, has recently become involved in debates concerning migration across the Mediterranean Sea. In particular, after having briefly discussed its emergence and characteristics, we examine how through different practices of (re)appropriation AIS, and the data it generate, have been seized upon, both to contest and to sustain the exclusionary nature of borders, and the mass dying of migrants at sea to which it leads. We do so by referring to forms of data activism we have contributed to in the frame of our Forensic Oceanography project as well as to situations in which AIS has been mobilized by xenophobic groups to demand even stronger exclusionary measures. At the same time, we point to the multiplicity of actors who participate in the politics of migration through AIS in unexpected ways. We conclude by highlighting the irreducible ambivalence of practices of appropriation and call for persistent attention to one’s own positioning within the global datascape constituted by AIS and other data.

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Article Jennifer Gabrys (2019) Sensors and Sensing Practices: Reworking Experience across Entities, Environments, and Technologies. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 723-736). unapi

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