Anthros in Tech: Disrupting Academic Anthropology Call for roundtable participants for the American Anthropological Association’s 2022 Hybrid Conference November 9-13, 2022 Anthropologists working in the tech industry have been hard at work building disruptive technologies for decades. With the growing interest in career paths outside of academia, our round table on anthropologists in tech unsettles […]
Social Media: Unsettling the World CFP For over a decade, social media has been “unsettling” the world. The social power of social media has become all too apparent and it is important for anthropologists to address it and the implications it has past, present, and future. We are looking for papers that address this theme […]
Response-ability Summit, May 20-21 | Online and Offline Call for Presentations: https://response-ability.tech/call-for-presentations-2021/Theme: How do we respond to the problems in tech using our abilities? Digital technologies, devices and data are woven into the fabric of contemporary societies. The digital and the social are now co-evolving — in a ‘sociodigital’ world — with emergent consequences that raise profound challenges for equality, […]
Article submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (18:00 CET) The use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in human resources (HR) allows for hundreds or thousands of job applications to be sifted and evaluated at the touch of a button. Designers of these systems often claim that they are free of individual prejudice, systematic bias, and are […]
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God The American Anthropology Association’s 2020 Meeting is calling for Executive Session submissions, deadline Feb 5. This year’s theme is Truth and Responsibility. The meeting will be held in St. Louis, MO on November 18th through the 22nd. What […]
The American Anthropological Association will hold its annual conference this fall in St. Louis, MO from November 18th to 22nd. The theme is Truth and Responsibility. DANG is putting together a round table of anthropologists whose work intersects with design and digital anthropology very broadly defined. Our goal is to showcase the work of anthropologist […]
Organizers Prof. Sahana Udupa (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) Dr. Elisabetta Costa (University of Groningen) Dr. Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Date & Venue 11 October 2019 Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany Abstract By building on the Media Anthropology Network panel at the EASA 2018 conference in Stockholm and the follow-up e-seminar from 16 Oct. […]
As is now tradition, CASTAC and DANG members and friends will gather for an informal meet up at the AAAs later this month. Thursday, November 15th 7:00pm til close Clandestine Brewing 980 S 1st St, Ste b https://goo.gl/maps/fWPzotDX2242 (~15 min walk from the convention center) While they don’t sell food in the taproom, there will […]
The European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Media Anthropology Network is organizing an E-Seminar on “The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology” as an online follow-up event to the Network’s panel at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference in Stockholm, Aug. 2018. To participate to this e-seminar, which runs from 16-30 October 2018, navigate to http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars […]
The EASA Media Media Anthropology Network is organizing a panel at the 15th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference in Stockholm, 14-17 August 2018. “The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology [Media Anthropology Network]” This panel recognizes the digital turn as a paradigm shift in the anthropological study of media, and aims to […]
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