Fritz Kahn, Der Mensch als Industriepalast, 1926. Detail. Image in public domain Introduction: surveil, classify and predict by Alexa Hagerty and Livia …
Illustration of algorithmically simulated flocking behavior (2021, created by Anna Lukina) With the growing size of historical data available to researchers and …
In December 2020, a group of social scientists gathered virtually at the LSE Department of Anthropology to discuss the relationship between data …
Vor hundert Jahren erfand Karel Čapek für sein Theaterstück „R.U.R.“ das Wort „Roboter“. Ist die damalige Reflexion zum Verhältnis zwischen Mensch, Umwelt …
How do mental illnesses sound? What are the stakes of using machines to render the signs of psychiatric suffering audible? These questions …
Photo by @charlesdeluvio A genderless gendered listening device in a ‘modern’ Norwegian home Introduction In this essay I will explore a conversation …
In the zeitgeist of academia, surveillance has clearly an ominous connotation. However, is surveillance not fundamentally a way of looking? More formally, …
On January 21, 1967, a mild winter Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a couple of computer researchers from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory …
Artificial intelligence can perform feats that seem like sorcery. AI can drive cars and fly drones. It can compose original music, write …
The Ocolus in New York City — Photo by @patresinger Everyday Mediations with Artificial Intelligence You may not be familiar with the field of …
Photo by @bechir Small Data Versus Big Data — Ethnographic Tactics and Algorithms as Culture Why does data have to be so big and what would …
Aya is anxiously waiting for a future in which humans coexist with robots. She didn’t think this was possible in her lifetime, …
“For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to make a film about libraries,” explains Ben Lewis, the director of …
Shortly after giving birth to her son, Jessica[1] began to experience a health problem that she describes simply as “pain everywhere.” About …
A techno-optimistic attitude tells us we’re living at an inflexion point where care practices are being transformed by technology. Monitoring and attending …
“I don’t have to drink alone,” she paused for comedic effect, “now that I have Alexa.” Thus was the punchline of a …
I’d like to start this post by juxtaposing two scenes. The first one is set about two years ago, and occurred on …
Reflections on a career tackling some of the critical workplace challenges of our time. I could not have imagined when I entered …
Ethnographic explorations with sex dolls, robots, and their makers “I hate it when her eyes flick open. This one, her eyeballs sometimes …
What characterises STS in different regions? What kinds of research projects, educational programs, and people are doing STS around the world? What …
Two robots traverse the desert floor. Explosions from a decades-old conflict have left a pockmarked and unstable territory, though many more improvised …
A good number of us shout at our laptops when they misbehave, often to no avail. Perhaps soon they will listen. Could …
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about community, who we are as a community, what keeps us connected and together, and how …
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about community, who we are as a community, what keeps us connected and together, and how …