Ian Lowrie

Anthropologist of algorithms, computing, and education. Editor of Platypus for @CASTAC_AAA and Visiting Assistant Professor in Honors College @Portland_State.

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

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

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

@haujournal it's like if you actively went on a campaign to convince people that you didn't understand why they were upset with you

[CASTAC @CASTAC_AAA]

"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

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

@haujournal oh hey hau still exists

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

@npseaver it all makes sense now

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

@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.

[EPIC People @epicpeople_org]

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

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

ah they edited the title out from underneath me

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

surely this will convince mexico to pay for the wall https://t.co/NN6aEF1tQ1

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

@npseaver https://t.co/5EbrbiIFhb

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

Transcription service errors: "I am whom by the way?"

[Data & Society @datasociety]

Data & Society is thrilled to announce that @SareetaAmrute has been named our first Director of Research! https://t.co/AbaTOWVkAG

[CASTAC @CASTAC_AAA]

How narratives about the disease leishmaniasis afford an oblique perspective on armed conflict in Colombia: https://t.co/HjVbUnjBNG

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

Platypus is looking for a new Editor and more Contributing Editors!

https://t.co/lQqOvFeLH4

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

#GamersRiseUp

[CASTAC @CASTAC_AAA]

How are video game fans altering copyright to preserve so-called "abandoned" online games? https://t.co/f7pAbflWVx

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

@npseaver 1*

[Tim Elfenbein [email protected] @timelfen]

Can anyone point me to information on how the @webofscience generates topic categories, and how they are assigned in the metadata for individual articles?

[Paul Dawson 📚 @PaulEDawson]

“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

[Ian Lowrie @ilowrie]

hey @npseaver you're in the news https://t.co/WH35gXfooA

[CASTAC @CASTAC_AAA]

"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