ANTH 374 Readings (UIUC, Spr 2018)

NOTE: Readings are subject to change.

ANTH 374 Requirements (UIUC, Spr 2018)

Note: The Syllabus is a Living Document

This syllabus is a starting point for the course. It is subject to change as the term unfolds, in response to your feedback and my assessment of how things are going. I’ll be seeking out your…

Anthropology of Science and Technology: Answering the “Why?”s of Science Funding

Why do some people use social media more than others? Why is one science labeled ‘hard’ and another labeled ‘soft’? Why do these people enter jobs with lots of technology more than other…

ANTH 374 Description (UIUC, Spr 2018)

ANTH 374 Anthropology of Science and Technology

SCOT and dominant Western influence: case of Jikji and moveable metal type

On my first lecture this week, the course theme was thinking about the fundamental definition of science and how science came to what we usually think today. Science has existed for many many years but…

Technology and Shame: The CCTV

The Anthropology Science and Technology is a fairly recent area of study, even more necessary now as such…

Change In Anthropology of Technology

The reading recounted the history of epistemological thought over the course of the last century or so. It explained how different social stimuli effected the way that people viewed scientific advancement.

Applications of Michael Fischer’s Research in Programming

Michael Fischer describes the history of technological anthropology in his article Four Genealogies of Recombinant Anthropology of Science and technology. He details the affects of object oriented languages and asserts that a key…

Feminist Dialogue in the Anthropology of Science and Technology

From what we learned this week in the Anthropology of Science and Technology, it is evident that a new wave of applying anthropological methods to Science and Technology is taking over. As we saw from examples in class…

Anthropology of Science and Technology: The Screen as a Community

Opening Pandora’s Box

How abusive business practices are uniting Gamers

Anyone who self-identifies as a Gamer has a different definition of what the term means. The waters are muddied further when one beings subdividing the group into “Casuals” and the…