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The goal of this undergraduate anthropology course at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is to enable students to understand and appreciate science and technology from an anthropological perspective — in ethnographic ideas, methods, and writing.

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Apr 6, 2018

Hackers

The idea of what someone can do with computer science has been grossly mirepresented in mainstream media and many people’s perceptions are…

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Apr 6, 2018

The Problem with Cyber-Neoliberalism

For the sake of this article, I’m going to use “Cyber-Neoliberalism” as a shorthand for the concept of neoliberal/libertarian freedom on the internet. That is, the idea that no company, government, or individual should limit or censor what can be/is said online. Go…

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Apr 6, 2018

Studies of the Gender Gap in Technology

We came back to feminism this week, both in the in-class video on women in computer science and briefly in Chapter 3 of Pressed for Time, when Wajcman explained the disparity in work/leisure breakdown with respect to gender. Coincidentally, my statistics…

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Apr 6, 2018

Liberty, Tech, and Information for All: No Matter the Cost

This week’s reading discuss in one way or another the factions that form in our industrious digital age. On one plane of reality Coleman and Kelty analyze communities of hackers that developed their own cultures and a fluid moral…

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Apr 6, 2018

Hackers and Recursive Publics

This week, we talked about the history and genres of hacking practice and hackers. It’s quite interesting…

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Apr 6, 2018

Taking Care of Yourself First

This week was focused on stereotypical views of Hackers and Geeks throughout history the topic of women in tech at its core. During class we watched clips from the documentary “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap”, which highlighted women in the tech field who are making a…

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Apr 6, 2018

Mr. Robot and the Subjectivity of Hackers

In this week’s class, we discussed the intricacies of hacker and “geek” culture. Many…

Jacob Heinricher in ANTH374S18

Apr 6, 2018

Shaping the internet

In our readings this week we’ve gone over ways in which the culture of the designers has influenced the design and goals of the internet and how we interact with the digital world. Most important to take away from this is to again notice that the development of this technology has not been…

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Apr 6, 2018

Time is money, But…

In class this week, we spent most of the time discussing about the concept of time. After reading some of the chapters in the book ‘Pressured for Time’, this book taught me a lot about how modern people living today understand what is time. To start off, lets see what was time in the old ages.

Christie Seong in ANTH374S18

Apr 6, 2018

Free the Hackers and Geeks

Cryptofreedom a term used by E. Gabriella Coleman and Alex Golub. It is a free open source software and the hacker underground. Globally the hacker community has been bashed in on, therefore, their transgressive pranks of underground hacking reveal the lack of ethics. Because of…