Anthropologist of algorithms, computing, and education. Editor of Platypus for @CASTAC_AAA and Visiting Assistant Professor in Honors College @Portland_State.
Portland, OR
Joined December 2012
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It's time for a "militant and optimistic" anthropology of algorithms and automation.
Check out our edited collection on "Algorithms and Automation" in @culanth, with awesome contributions from @npseaver, @dawnnafus, @bonnienardi & Hamid Ekbia!
culanth.org/articles/963-alg…
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"Religious critique of artificial intelligence has more to offer than mere Luddism." Jon Bialecki on Mormon transhumanism and the moral problem of how virtual entities should be treated and understood:
blog.castac.org/2019/02/gods…
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EPIC2018 proceedings are here! 40 new papers and case studies in our open-access library of nearly 600 articles on ethnography & business, plus a little highlight reel for inspiration: epicpeople.org/epic2018-proc… #epiconference #ethnography #ux #business @AmericanAnthro @NapaAnthro
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Data & Society is thrilled to announce that @SareetaAmrute has been named our first Director of Research! datasociety.net/blog/2018/12…
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How narratives about the disease leishmaniasis afford an oblique perspective on armed conflict in Colombia: blog.castac.org/2018/12/twea…
Platypus is looking for a new Editor and more Contributing Editors!
blog.castac.org/2018/11/call…
How are video game fans altering copyright to preserve so-called "abandoned" online games? blog.castac.org/2018/11/aban…
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Can anyone point me to information on how the @webofscience generates topic categories, and how they are assigned in the metadata for individual articles?
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“So much of the infrastructure that's been deployed is right next to the coast, so it doesn't take much more than a few inches or a foot of sea level rise for it to be underwater,”
“We live in a world designed for an environment that no longer exists,” a.msn.com/00/en-gb/AAAbWQk?o…
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"Skin is a boundary zone, an interface demarcating difference and closeness." Mitali Thakor (@mitalithakor) on her ethnographic work with robotic sex dolls and the people who build them: blog.castac.org/2018/11/robo…
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My piece about how engineers and technicians produce knowledge about more than just earthquakes is out at the Journal of Political Ecology. Thanks to all @cires_ac and elsewhere journals.uair.arizona.edu/in…
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I asked my students to manually comb through the Enron corpus of emails (a dataset that has machine learning, to train software) to find patterns that computers could miss but humans would notice. @turniplan found a web of racist/sexist jokes and began sketching the connections:
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"First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings" nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
hey its almost like most domestic terrorists are from the far right and are feeling emboldened by the current administration and picking targets from its more-or-less public list of enemies wsj.com/articles/suspicious-…
the more you look the less sense it makes
This Harvard Business Review chart seems to have been made by someone who didn't know what most of the terms meant:
hbr.org/2018/10/which-data-s…
