Beyond Features and Launch Plans: The Human Side of Product Adoption
When adoption fails, it’s rarely about the technology — it’s almost always about people. Adoption is a Key Driver of ROI The slide that anchors this post breaks…
When adoption fails, it’s rarely about the technology — it’s almost always about people. Adoption is a Key Driver of ROI The slide that anchors this post breaks…
Analysing hate speech convictions, the authors find that it is unclear where Norwegian courts draw the line between distasteful expressions and criminal hate speech. Notable v…
The upper McKenzie River, in Oregon, is a vast wilderness and a tourist fishing location for the past 100 years. Some 30% of the clean water in the…
How do companies handle responsibilities to people and the environment when they operate abroad? What tools do they use, and what are the effects? These have been throughgoing…
For this installment of In the Journals, Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho suggests two French journals which may be of interest to Somatosphere readers: Revue Anthropologie des Connaissances…
John Chalcraft‘s From Subordination to Revolution advances a Gramscian theory of popular mobilisation – how ordinary and marginalised people take collective action against the powers that be. Th…
ByJosie HuMA Creative and Collaborative Enterprise I used to think that anthropological fieldwork always happened somewhere far away, in unfamiliar places. Over time, I realised that my earlie…
This article is the second in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network. Read the introduction…
This article, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperative…
On Adorno and Wagner for the journal Kaabigan: With Michael Roland F. Hernandez’s intro: “John Hutnyk’s meditation on Zukunftsmusik—Richard Wagner’s “music of the future”—provides a…
By Sverre Beijne – It is a sunny autumn day when I visit the park for the first time. As I enter, I see a small sandy path…
It is the summer of 2022, and I am volunteering with Wes at a queer multi-purpose community space in Brooklyn, New York City. The space is bright pink,…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BluteauDressing Emerson Yuan-Jhen Lee: For many people, the men’s bespoke fashion industry is undoubtedly a mysterious and mesmerizing field. …
Once upon a time, Sophia Balakian was a doctoral student at the University of Illinois. Once upon a time, I was (with Ellen Moodie) her co-advisor. We have…
“I don’t know how to explain it”, Caro told me in an interview, “but you develop a sense [Gespür] for when you can keep standing in front of…
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Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your professional and academic background, what brought you to SAR and how long you have been here? Prior to arriving at…
New article – this is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperatives, the article works through meaning…
Amelie Harbisch’s Making Refugees’ Political Agency Visible refigures refugees from passive subjects to political actors within global immigration systems. Grounded in practice theory and ethnographic…
Notetaker bots in a Google Hangouts meeting Have you ever been on a work call which looks like this? You’re there to see one individual, but multiple chatbot notetakers…
Sambusas, Somali restaurant, Minneapolis, 12/25. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food ant…
Stuck in the Turing Matrix: Inauthenticity, Deception and the Social Life of AI Samuel Gerald Collins The Turing test may or may not be a valid test…
Welcome to Platypus in 2026! Last year, we published over 65 posts, almost a quarter of which were also in a second language, and maintained a readership from 175…
This is a (hopefully) weekly update about events in Porgera. A few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley…