Andreas Bernard, “Theory of the Hashtag” (Polity, 2019)
In his short book, Theory of the Hashtag (Polity, 2019), Andreas Bernard traces the origins and career of the hashtag. Following the history of the # sign through…
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Land and tears: the political economy of deforestation on the Freetown Peninsula, by Anais Menard (2019)
For some years now, at the height of Sierra Leone’s rainy season, heavy floods have struck the country’s capital city, Freetown, leaving behind them damaged infrastructure and devastated…
DesignOps in Wonderland
In this @designopssummit presentation, we hear about the journey and evolution of DesignOps at ExpressScripts in the context of an Agile transformation, as well as significant growth and…
Debunking the Myths of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Day2 of @designopssummit! To start of the day, we heard from @alanstairs about what it *really* takes to lead great cross-functional teams.
Digging Up Woodstock
The 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair left behind garbage and other materials that can be traced by archaeologists. Bettmann /Getty Images On a cloudy morning in October 2017,…
Book Review: The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai by Maura Finkelstein
In The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai, Maura Finkelstein confronts the assumption that the city’s textile industry is a relic of the past, instead showing how…
J. Neuhaus, “Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers” (West Virginia UP, 2019)
The things that make people academics — as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude that developing expertise requires…
The Bigger Picture: A Panel Discussion
In this panel presentation, leaders in the field @jcoronado1 @crystalcy @guneetc79 @rachelposman share their thoughts with @louisrosenfeld on @designopssummit conference themes.
Distributed Design Operations Management
In this @designopssummit presentation, we get some practical guidance from @jilannawilson about the role that leaders can play in making remote teams work.
Expensive Routers Create Connections
In this @designopssummit presentation, @indrapendence shares how she used human-centered approaches to improve collaboration within and across teams, while still taking care of herself.
Group Activity: A Deep Dive Into Value and Outcomes
In this interactive @designopssummit session, @bettay and Kamdyne Moore share an initial measurement framework for DesignOps, and solicited audience feedback.
Measuring the Designer Experience
In this @designopssummit presentation, Kim Fellman Cohen shares how @pinterest used Design Thinking to pilot and measure improvements to employee satisfaction of their designers.
Real Talk: Proving Value through a Scrappy Playbook
In this @designopssummit presentation, Dianne Que shares her experiences in creating a ‘scrappy’ playbook, measuring impact, and how to weather change in a dynamic organization.
Measuring What Matters
In this @designsopsummit talk, Kristin Wisnewski shares how IBM’s Office of the CIO makes measurement of impact central to their work.
Opening Keynote: Process and Ambiguity
The @designopsummit kicked off this morning with keynoter @amythibodeau, who shared how she uses frameworks from economics to prioritize where her UX Ops team focuses their efforts.
You Should Watch Secrets of Blackmoor: On the Utility of Oral History
I have recently been digging into the history of computational thinking for other projects and published an excerpt of that work over at Analog Game Studies. That article,…
Book Review: Dead Labor: Towards a Political Economy of Premature Death by James Tyner
In Dead Labor: Towards a Political Economy of Premature Death, James Tyner offers an urgent examination of the extraction of surplus value from the death of labouring bodies. While…
100 Years of Beauty and the Beast of YouTube with Chris Chan
in this episode, Adam and guest host Leslie Walker talk with visual anthropologist and film producer Chris Chan, producer of the 100 Years of Beauty series on YouTube.…
Representing Diverse Bodies in Medical Illustration
In 2016, just before I began my dissertation fieldwork, a trio of young medical illustrators presented a panel on “Normativity and Diversity in Healthcare Imagery” at the annual…
Marxism is amphetamines, biopolitics is cocaine: Social science theories as drugs.
Okay so hear me out, I have a new bit: Social science theories as drugs. Biopolitics is cocaine. I like it in small doses, and I can see…
The ethnographic fact: a discussion of ethics in anthropological fieldwork by Florian Göttke
Note: A working-syllabus can be found below. Please add more recommendations in the comments. The lone-fieldworker model of research may still be the norm for anthropology in the…
The Deep Roots of Navajo Country Music
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS What is it about certain musical traditions that cause them to take root in communities far away from where they originated? Anthropologist Kristina…
Land, Life, and Water: Tending to the Landscape of Southern Louisiana
By Hannah Eisler Burnett, University of Chicago § This is a photo essay about the way people cultivate visions of speculative territory and historical landscapes. But in southern…