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Tools kits offer ways not just to make sensors but also to
[ ...] The practices involved in JenniferGabrys
undertaking citizen-sensing projects require not just putting
together assorted electronics but also
of technology, politics, environments, and
modes of citizenship (6 & 8).

Yet the very act of

. To identify the making of sensors, the
writing of code, and the collection of data as key ways to skill up
, or-
and undertake environmental monitoring is to
chestrate, conjure, and
on the sustain people, tech-
problem of pollution (32-33). nology, and worlds to-
ward openings rather
When making citizen-sensing tool kits and following instructions, than prescribed ends
it is important to consider (9).
of
monitoring environments as well as
(38).

making both the tools and the universe somewhat indeterminate

in the inquiry to be undertaken, because they are both in process
[ ...]
(58-59).

These are not technical solutions but rather

to technologies and
new engagement with politics (69). Instruments do work in
the world. They can

You might find that 'getting practical,' then,

, networks, and They tune us into other
worlds that materialize along with instruments (73). registers of experience,
and they attach us to
How to do things is to ask It is to
that remake our sen-
inquire (95). sory worlds (54).

Nathaniel A Rivers, 2020