Data Doppelgängers and Issues of Consent
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth post in our Law in Computation series. In February 2018, journalist Kashmir Hill wrote about her collaboration with researcher Surya Mattu to…
Tag: STS
Parrotfish: The Charisma of Conservation in the Caribbean
During the week of Easter, the beaches of the Dominican Republic were converted into billboards for the campaign to stop the consumption of parrotfish. Pictures taken from drones…
Web Roundup: In the clouds by Lily Shapiro
As I’m sure many of you saw, this month started with the successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, giving a boost (sorry) to privatized space travel, and providing…
Unseen citizen engagement with science, technology and health in Russia
At the beginning of 2017 many Russians living with HIV/AIDS were told by their doctors that there were no antiretroviral drugs for them. They would have to change…
Why The World Needs Anthropologists: Powering the Planet
By Simone Abram Why does the world need anthropologists? This is the question posed at an annual meeting of the Applied Anthropology Network of the European Association of…
Casting into the Cosmos: Magic and Ritual in Human Spaceflight (Part 2)
In Part 1, I wrote a gonzo ethnography about my experience at a rocket launch in Florida. For Part 2, I will be utilizing historical records, museum didactic…
Casting into the Cosmos: Magic and Ritual in Human Spaceflight (Part 1)
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Taylor R. Genovese. Field Notes – September 8, 2016 (Cape Canaveral, Florida): I see the light and smoke first. The radiant fuel pours…
#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?
I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about. But it makes me…
#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?
I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about. But it makes me…
#Ageing and #technology: Whose concerns?
I take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about. But it makes me…
(Almost) Anthro Blogging 101: Lady Science
In this edition of Blogging 101, we’re featuring Lady Science, a blog and publication started by Anna Reser and Leila McNeill. Anthropology and geek culture also involves studies…
Knowing Economies, Doing Economies: How Sociologists of Markets Have Acknowledged the Legacy of #Pragmatism
In her new book, South Korean Civil Movement Organisations: Hope, Crisis and Pragmatism in Democratic Transition, Amy Levine shows us how a commitment to American pragmatism crosses disciplinary…
Authors and Impresarios: How to Move Across Disciplines by Hyo Yoon Kang
A conversation with Mario Biagioli. Mario Biagioli is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies, as well as Director of the Center for Science and…
Web Roundup: Biohacking, BioArt, and other Playful Abominations by Sara M Bergstresser
These days, it is fun to “hack” almost everything. You can hack your life, you can hack your home, and you can even hack your period. So, as…
Mapping the rainforest? I’ve got an app for that.
By Gill Conquest When I was a kid, the one thing I wanted more than anything else in the world was a computer-in-a-book, where I could look up…
#TtW15 Abstract Post
I will be presenting at Theorizing the Web again this year! More information on this great conference: Theorizing the Web 2015. If you can’t make it, the conference…