Why aren’t millennials buying diamonds?
link to original tweet @TheEconomist Earlier this week, The Economist magazine asked the Twittersphere a question: Why aren’t millennials buying diamonds? Unsurprisingly, this question generat…
Tag: Technology
How Did We Ever Live Without GPS?
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. —(attributed to) Yogi Berra I’m writing this post…
Web Roundup: Ethical Technology, Moral Medicine by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
Researchers at MIT have launched Moral Machine, a web project to help gauge human perspectives on “moral decisions made by machine intelligence.” The project comes in the wake…
The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Madeleine Clare Elish, (@mcette), is an anthropologist and researcher at Data & Society, presents a…
Anthropologist, CTO
Is it really that strange to think that an anthropologist would be the best choice for a Chief Technology Officer? According to Susannah Fox, the CTO for HHS…
An Engineering Anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: I’m very please to announce that the next contributor in the Co-designing with machines edition is Astrid Countee (@ianthro), an anthropologist, software de…
The human-side of artificial intelligence and machine learning
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Steven Gustafson (@stevengustafson), founder of the Knowledge Discovery Lab at the General Electric Gl…
The hidden story of how metrics are being used in courtrooms and newsrooms to make more decisions
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: The next author for the Co-designing with machines edition is Angèle Christin (@angelechristin), sociologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Data & Soci…
Why do brands lose their chill? How bots, algorithms, and humans can work together on social media
Editor’s Note: The fourth contributor to the Co-designing with machines edition is Molly Templeton (@mollymeme), digital and social media expert, Director of Social Media at Everybody …
Mindful Algorithms: the new role of the designer in generative design
Editor’s Note: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Che-Wei Wang, (Alicia Dudek (@sayway), is a designer and architect who runs CW&T, a design study with his partner…
Lou and Cee Cee prepare for fieldwork in the future: a world where robots conduct ethnography
Editor’s Note: Kicking off our Co-designing with machines edition is Alicia Dudek (@aliciadudek), Innovation Insight Lead & Design Ethnographer at Deloitte Digital Australia. Using …
Co-designing with machines: moving beyond the human/machine binary
Letter from the Editor: I am happy to announce Welcome to the The Co-Desinging with Machines edition. As someone with one foot in industry redesigning organizations to flourish in a…
India’s Uber Dilemma: Entrepreneurship or Exploitation?
Uber is part of a “gig economy” trend in India and elsewhere—an economy partially powered by self-employed workers on short-term jobs. While it offers flexible schedules for its…
Web Roundup: Data, Safety, and Bias by Lily Shapiro
Many people probably saw the news that Facebook allegedly privileges left-leaning stories in its trending news section, a story broken by Gizmodo at the beginning of this month.…
Anthropocene Adjustments: Discarding the Technosphere
The technosphere refers to a new layer on the planet made up of “the interlinked set of communication, transportation, bureaucratic and other systems that act to metabolize fossil…
Taking up Space
Nine years ago when I started my doctoral studies not only was I in a fertile intellectual endeavour undertaking fieldwork, reading theory, stretching my brain and writing,…
Seminar: Indigenous Media 2016
Again, I have the pleasure to teach the Seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. Find below a…
Web Roundup: The Electronic Over-Soul and our Worst Selves (and Other Mishaps) by Sara M Bergstresser
The web roundup for this month is a sequel to last month’s roundup on Mind, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence. I will address another interface between machines and minds,…
Book Forum––Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps by Todd Meyers
Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is a story of the influenza pandemic that never…
(Video) Games as Motivation for Japanese High School Students
By Andrew Ross Sushi served on conveyor belts. Robot restaurants and robot theater. Toilets that automatically open themselves upon room entry. For visitors of Tokyo (and to an…
Interactive reading and beyond – Creating online consensus (and possibly community) one top highlight at a time
I receive a number of emails everyday from various websites that range from teaching innovations and news about higher education to curator services like Pocket. One article set…
Review: Cooking Technology
Review of: Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz (ed.) Cooking Technology: Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016). Michael McDonald Florida Gulf…
Dancing “My Humps” in Rural China
Every evening in Anshan Town, a rural village in China’s Shandong province, around 25 middle-aged women gather in the small public square to dance to the Black Eyed…
Mind, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence by Maria Cecilia Dedios
This month’s web roundup comes through a bit late – paradoxically- due to technical difficulties (my computer died!). Although I will be able to recover most of my…