Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Key Concepts in the Anthropological Study of Science and TechnologyConcept 1: Networks Modeling HumansMay 12, 2018May 12, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Ala’a Basatneh and Social Media PlatformsAla’a Basatneh uses Facebook and Youtube to organize and spread awareness of protests in Syria. Social media platforms are an excellent way…Apr 27, 2018Apr 27, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Wajcman and the Overwatch LeagueIn Chapters 6 and 7 of Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman debates the quality of person-to-person connections compared to interactions through…Apr 20, 2018Apr 20, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Nakamura and Hacking The FutureThe concept that Hacking The Future focused on was artistic and lifestyle interpretations of hacking. This broadens the definition of…Apr 13, 2018Apr 13, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18A Relation Definition of a “Recursive Society”Christopher Kelty uses the phrase “recursive society” in Geeks, Social Imaginaries, Recursive Publications to describe a group concerned…Apr 7, 2018Apr 7, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Wajcman and “The Right to be Forgotten”In Pressed for Time Judy Wajcman discusses the perception that modern technology makes people busier and their perceived time happen faster…Apr 6, 2018Apr 6, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18A Political Analysis of Physics Group LeadersSharon Traweek’s Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics describes the physics community as markedly cult-like. I found…Mar 15, 2018Mar 15, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Building on Emily Martin’s Non-Gendered ScienceIn The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male- Female Roles Emily Martin describes sexist and…Feb 25, 2018Feb 25, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Expanding Subramaniam’s TheatrePeople tend to separate CS from other sciences is because it’s man-made: it does not occur in nature like chemistry or physics; or they…Feb 16, 2018Feb 16, 2018
Sarah MoultoninANTH374S18Packet Sniffing Lisa Nakamura’s “Glitch Racism: Networks as Actors within Vernacular Internet…Lisa Nakamura describes online racism as a “glitch” in a human network’s signal caused by pirate racists polluting it. I think this…Feb 11, 2018Feb 11, 2018
