Anthropologist of algorithms, computing, and education. Editor of Platypus for @CASTAC_AAA and Visiting Assistant Professor in Honors College @Portland_State.
It's time for a "militant and optimistic" anthropology of algorithms and automation.
Check out our edited collection on "Algorithms and Automation" in @culanth, with awesome contributions from @npseaver, @dawnnafus, @bonnienardi & Hamid Ekbia!
https://t.co/rUKEhei7br
"Religious critique of artificial intelligence has more to offer than mere Luddism." Jon Bialecki on Mormon transhumanism and the moral problem of how virtual entities should be treated and understood:
https://t.co/XkzoK8s12m
@ThylacineReport taught martin's egg + sperm recently and it was wild how many of my FRESHMAN students reported feeling that way at the doctor. like, eighteen year old students.
EPIC2018 proceedings are here! 40 new papers and case studies in our open-access library of nearly 600 articles on ethnography & business, plus a little highlight reel for inspiration: https://t.co/mrBs0C5Sgc #epiconference#ethnography#ux#business@AmericanAnthro@NapaAnthro
Can anyone point me to information on how the @webofscience generates topic categories, and how they are assigned in the metadata for individual articles?
“So much of the infrastructure that's been deployed is right next to the coast, so it doesn't take much more than a few inches or a foot of sea level rise for it to be underwater,”
“We live in a world designed for an environment that no longer exists,” https://t.co/Q1M3AinIKA
"Skin is a boundary zone, an interface demarcating difference and closeness." Mitali Thakor (@mitalithakor) on her ethnographic work with robotic sex dolls and the people who build them: https://t.co/noa5RWXTtc