Article ID: CBB530419344

Reading a Wave Buoy (2019)

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Helmreich, Stefan (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 44
Issue: 5
Pages: 737-761


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

The ocean’s properties and processes are now mostly known through distributed sensor networks. Among the most widespread of such networks are those that connect wave-measuring buoys. Buoys have been deployed and consulted by national meteorological organizations, state militaries, multinational corporations, and citizens. This paper zeroes in on the Directional Waverider, the most widely used buoy, manufactured since 1961 in the Netherlands by Datawell. I am interested in this buoy’s material qualities and networks of use, its life within legal frameworks, and its media ecology. Staging my account against the metaphysical Italian author Italo Calvino’s “Reading a Wave,” I explore what it means to “read” a sensing technology.

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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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Authors & Contributors
Jessica Lehman
Gabrys, Jennifer
Hassan Habibi Gharakheili
Victoria Lush
Hayashi, Yasunori
Jeanne Oui
Concepts
Sensors
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Computers and computing
Cities and towns
Archives
Privacy
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Europe
Belarus
Peru
London (England)
Pacific Ocean
Florence (Italy)
Institutions
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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