AI as a Feminist Issue
By choosing to look at the funding from the American Government on this field, I aim to tell a different story about AI. A quick search for the…
Tag: Beyond the Academy
Platypod, Episode Five: CASPR – CASTAC in the Spring 2022
This episode presents a recording of CASPR 2022, or the CASTAC in the Spring 2022 mentoring event, organized to encourage dialogue on breaking down binaries that have separated…
Disability Dongle – I Shouldn’t Have Had to Write This
Disability Dongle: A well intended elegant, yet useless solution to a problem we never knew we had. Disability Dongles are most often conceived of and created in design…
Moving Towards Disability
December 3rd is the UN’s International Day for People with Disabilities. The theme of 2021 was “Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World”.…
Coming Soon: The MultiRepository
This post introduces a new collaborative project coming soon to CASTAC: an archive of online platforms that highlights how researchers have utilized different communicative modes and media in…
Through Mother’s Eyes: Subjectivity Reimagines Technology in Documentary Film
An Interview with Filmmaker Natalia Almada and Sound Designer Dave Cerf Anthropology and Documentary Anthropology and documentary are shaped by integrating subjectivity with philosophical and ethical …
Innocent images? The ethics of sharing your children’s photos online
There are collections of embarrassing childhood photos stashed in most parents’ homes. Everyone remembers an instance when those photos unexpectedly appeared in ways that were awkward or humiliating,…
Video Games, Mental Health, and the Complicated Nature of Playing
Young man plays Fortnite at a gaming competition CC BY-SA 4.0 He melted into the shadows, pressing the ‘E’ key on his keyboard, activating his stealth skill, allowing…
Our Governor Resigned via Facebook: #RickyRenuncia, Puerto Rico’s Summer of Protest
Disponible en español aquí. On July 13th, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Center for Investigative Journalism) leaked 889 pages of a Telegram App chat between the governor of…
SciCom: The Slippery Business of STEM Promotion
“One thing is certain: When something is scientifically complex, it’s harder to understand and to communicate” (sciencebranding.com). Regardless of its accuracy, this is a commonly repeated sentiment …
The Messiness of Ethnography
Damien Newman created “the squiggle” to convey the messiness of the design process.(CC by 2.0) Leaving academia forced me to think more deeply and critically about ethnography…
Computable Norms: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Digital Infrastructure
I’m a sociocultural anthropologist by training. Until recently, my research focused on environmental issues in Ecuador. Yet, my attempt to address the gaps left by traditional anthropological ap…
Heredity, Genealogy, and Popular Knowledge: An Interview with Carl Zimmer
For three decades, Carl Zimmer has researched and written on both professional and popular understandings of science and technology for readers of Discover and The New York Times,…
Modern Lives and Stone Age Minds: The Ambiguous Rhetoric of Evolutionary Mismatch
Over the last three decades, popular science authors have used evolutionary mismatch theory to shed light on a vast number of modern social problems, pointing to differences between…