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Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, part of the GAD of the American Anthropological Association | tweets by @natalia_orregot
What can Burning Man’s unique environment tell us about contemporary AI researchers in Silicon Valley? Today on #Platypus, Spencer Kaplan joins his interlocutors at the event and reflects on its resonances with the AI industry. Read more: blog.castac.org/2025/07/techni…
Re-upping this call for awesome folks to join our amazing team of CEs! If you’re interested in collaborative editorial work, love critical scholarship, and want to be part of a fantastic community, check it out! ✨
Calling all early career anthropologists!! We're looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA! Check out the posting here and express interest in joining our podcast, social media (👋), member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: culanth.org/about/about-th…
How do digital platforms reshape aging and care? Today on Platypus, we invite you to check this piece by Hui Wen to discover how online short videos help older adults find voice—and a bit of happiness. blog.castac.org/2025/07/i-just…
Latest video: Watch Biao Xiang introduce the Theory, Culture & Society article, 'Channels and Logistical Power: Making a ‘Perfect Market’ under Authoritarian Rule in China'. youtube.com/watch?v=GD2JsP…
📣 Call for Proposals – Special Issue 2026 Reviews in Anthropology seeks proposals for a critical, integrative issue on recent developments in any subfield of anthropology. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Sep 2025 📩 [email protected] 🔗 buff.ly/AFnGpW7 #Anthropology
🚨 New member book alert! In Technocolonialism, IAMCR member Mirca Madianou @madianou exposes how AI & "tech for good" can deepen global inequality & digital exploitation. 🔗 iamcr.org/books-madianou… #DigitalColonialism #TechForGood #AIJustice
¿Ya revisaron la programación final de nuestro Simposio? Pueden consultarla en el siguiente enlace: share.google/x5rOz5GRTA1zLS… ¡Iniciamos mañana! 😃
📢 Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Social Sciences titled: Health-AI—The Daily Practice of Human-AI Collaborations in Healthcare ⚕️ ⏰ Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 More details: buff.ly/5mgz5bf
🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8 Read “Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins” 🏝️ by Jose A. Cañada & Joaquín Valdivielso now at 👉 doi.org/10.1080/257298…
Balearic environmental activism meets migrant exclusion: A duoethnographic lens exposes how class and language barriers shape ecological knowledge, revealing positionality's power to redefine environmental justice from the margins. 🏝️ At 👉 doi.org/10.1080/257298… @TapuyaLASTS
Motivada porque en una semana se viene la tercera Charla de Antropología Digital del año de @Redlatdigital, donde conversaremos sobre cómo la historia desafía el presentismo de lo digital. Grandes panelistas (y yo como moderadora!)🙌 Inscripciones en: forms.gle/2HWgCfV86zkqGB…
What are we to make of “humanitarian wearables”? Today on #Platypus, Aaron Su discusses Indigenous health, data sovereignty, and digital colonialism in Taiwan. Read this fascinating post here: blog.castac.org/2025/07/the-so…
What happens when today’s knowledge is tomorrow’s lost file? Preserving scholarly content is more urgent—and more strategic—than ever. 📽️ Watch how CLOCKSS is protecting the scholarly record for future generations: 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=1kvkpf… #OpenAccess #DigitalPreservation
The lecture recording is now available at: play.library.utoronto.ca/embed/5e391087…
The 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture, “Weaving the Future: Indigenous Knowledge and the Ethics of AI,” brought together two distinguished speakers to explore how AI can be shaped with respect, relationality, and responsibility, rooted in Indigenous ethical frameworks.
🎨🧑💻 ¿Te interesa mezclar arte, código y humanidades? Conoce sobre el Club de Programación de la @rehdi_co. Un espacio para experimentar con sonido computacional, arte generativo y más. 🔗 rchd.com.co/club_programac… #HumanidadesDigitales #ArteYCódigo #RCHD
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Here's a glimpse of the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology! All the articles are open access, you can read them here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/i…
This week on Platypus, Eric Orlowski and Juan Forero-Duarte offer an ethnographic comparative study of metaphorical Silicon Valley's within local contexts of Sweden and Columbia using Yuk Hui's (2017) cosmotechnics as framework. Read this piece at: blog.castac.org/2025/07/excava…