We are pleased to welcome Safa to this podcast capsule on Radical Imagination. Together, we explore the essence of imagination and the unique ways Safa taps into it. We dive into her relationship and practice with Tarot and Sufi poetry, uncovering how they serve both as tools for personal and collective sensemaking and as a means to uplift marginalized and vulnerable voices. In a moving story shared at the end of the episode, Safa highlights the power of dedication as means of anchoring oneself in service to a larger whole.

We are pleased to welcome Ginie on this podcast capsule on Radical Imagination. We explore the transformative power of imagination and experiential education in the face of societal and environmental crises. Ginie shares her journey from human rights advocacy to education, emphasizing the need for actionable dreams and imperfect solidarities to create meaningful change. She highlights the role of love, forgiveness, and defiance in education as tools for resilience and empowerment. Ginie also talks about her new book Pedagogies of Collapse. This radically honest, open-access book confronts the reality of collapse, acknowledging the allure of denial and despair while choosing a path of hope. Pedagogies of Collapse presents a compelling, fact-based argument for urgent action but avoids falling into the conventional categories of environmental discourse. The ebook version, A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It, is available as open access here: Bloomsbury Collections.

We are pleased to welcome Francesco, who will share his experience as educator on the subject of radical imagination. Francesco positions radical imagination at the core of the ethnographic method, as it requires the nurturing of similar qualities of curiosity and non judgement. He shares two educational projects where he applies radical imagination and openly discusses their challenges and opportunities. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Links:

www.associazioneantropolis.org

We are pleased to welcome the team behind The Ethnographic Tarot Project: The Arcana of Inquiry who will discuss the project's intentions, its origins, and its future direction. They will explore how tarot complements the ethnographic practice and its potential to serve as a versatile educational resource for research, supervision, and writing. More broadly, they examine how this empowering practice can shift perspectives, unlock creative potential, and deepen reflection for practitioners. Finally, they will share their thoughts on what is needed to foster more radical imagination within the neoliberal academic space. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

We have set one of the project’s tarot cards as a visual for this podcast episode. The Ethnographic Tower card within the tarot deck serves as a powerful metaphor for the tumultuous yet transformative process inherent in anthropological work. This card encapsulates the themes of upheaval, deconstruction, and the necessity for renewal, making it an exceptional teaching tool for understanding the dynamics of ethnographic inquiry.

Copyright (for the artwork): Priyanka Borpujari.  

Links: https://www.scribd.com/document/760415134/Ethnographic-Tarot-Project (contribution deadline extended to September 20th 2024)

We are happy to have Dace with us speaking to her background and her experience and thoughts on isolation. She shares about her current research on emptiness and links it to isolation. Through fieldwork stories, she further details the condition of emptiness of which isolation is an element and explores what happens when this condition is seen as a site of opportunities. Lastly, she talks about what excites her the most about coming to the conference as well as her advice to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

We are happy to have Heli with us speaking to her background and her experience and thoughts on isolation. She shares some of the lenses she is considering to use to explore the topic of isolation, such as temporality, embodiment and capitalism.  Lastly, she talks about what excites her the most about coming to the conference as well as her advice to those considering to attend.  Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

in Lybia. He spent 6 months by himself in an extreme isolation unit, not knowing whether he would live or die. In this conversation he explores questions such as: 

What does it mean to be free?

What is the value of being with oneself?

What do inner conversations reveal and what effects can one experience after such a transformative event?

Rafram also speaks to the power of the artistic lens and how it can help cultivate self-inquiry and drive everyday choices from a space of personal freedom. 

Lastly, as a speaker of Why the world needs Anthropologists, The Power of Isolation, he

shares his thoughts on anthropology as well as his advice and thoughts to those considering attending the conference. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Dr. Erin B. Taylor has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney and is the founder of Finthropology, a company specializing in insights into people’s financial behaviour. She specializes in how people’s financial behaviour is changing along with innovation in financial services, and has carried out ethnographic research in the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. Erin is especially interested in how culture and group belonging influence people’s actions and decisions.

Dr. Melanie T. Uy is a lifelong learner and known for unexpected questions. She is a ritual specialist focusing on the practices of social connection and disconnection and its impact on work and workplaces. Her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam researched how social detachment was essential to the work of migration brokers in China. She currently works as a user experience researcher in the Netherlands and previously ran consumer studies for the retail and healthcare market in the Philippines.

We are excited to have Erin and Melanie with us to share this joint research project. This project is intended as a toolkit for researchers and their colleagues to help them position the value of their work and bring it forth to a desired organizational level. We ask the authors how did the idea for the project come about? How did they organize the research and what were the unexpected insights that emerged from it? Melanie and Erin ask back whether they were right or wrong with their conclusions. Listen to the episode and feel free to reach out to the authors to share your feedback.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Better Research,

Better Design: How to Align Teams and Build a Human-Centric Company Culture by Erin B. Taylor and Melany.T.Uy

Active8 Planet

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Applied

Anthropology Network (AAN)

EPIC 2022

Finthropology

Gillian

Tett

Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas, University of Amsterdam

Response-ability Summit

The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology

UXInsight 

Social Media:

Erin: LinkedIn

Melanie: LinkedIn;...]]>Erin B. Taylor & Melanie T. Uy: Anthropologists & Authors of Better Research, Better Design: How to Align Teams and Build a Human-Centric Company Culture.

Dr. Erin B. Taylor has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney and is the founder of Finthropology, a company specializing in insights into people’s financial behaviour. She specializes in how people’s financial behaviour is changing along with innovation in financial services, and has carried out ethnographic research in the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. Erin is especially interested in how culture and group belonging influence people’s actions and decisions.

Dr. Melanie T. Uy is a lifelong learner and known for unexpected questions. She is a ritual specialist focusing on the practices of social connection and disconnection and its impact on work and workplaces. Her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam researched how social detachment was essential to the work of migration brokers in China. She currently works as a user experience researcher in the Netherlands and previously ran consumer studies for the retail and healthcare market in the Philippines.

We are excited to have Erin and Melanie with us to share this joint research project. This project is intended as a toolkit for researchers and their colleagues to help them position the value of their work and bring it forth to a desired organizational level. We ask the authors how did the idea for the project come about? How did they organize the research and what were the unexpected insights that emerged from it? Melanie and Erin ask back whether they were right or wrong with their conclusions. Listen to the episode and feel free to reach out to the authors to share your feedback.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Better Research,

Better Design: How to Align Teams and Build a Human-Centric Company Culture by Erin B. Taylor and Melany.T.Uy

Active8 Planet

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Applied

Anthropology Network (AAN)

EPIC 2022

Finthropology

Gillian

Tett

Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas, University of Amsterdam

Response-ability Summit

The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology

UXInsight 

Social Media:

Erin: LinkedIn

Melanie: LinkedIn; @anthrobuzz on Medium and Goodreads

Gabriela Cabaña is a Ph.D. candidate at the LSE anthropology department. Gabriela is a transdisciplinary scholar originally trained in Sociology in Chile but also draws from political ecology and feminist theoretical perspectives. She is interested in the interplay between energy, bureaucracy, value, and degrowth. Her ethnographic work focuses on energy transitions in southern Chile.

Gabriela is part of Centro de Análisis Socioambiental (Centre of Social-Environmental Analysis); Red Chilena de Ingreso Básico (Chilean network of Basic Income) and the Basic Income Earth Network. 

This is a special episode, a Love letter to David Graeber. Gabriela was taught a course by David at LSE, while Amina got to know him as a thesis supervisor there. Through the lived experiences of Amina and Gabriela, we are exploring David's contribution and

legacy in action. What has stuck with them from the conversations they had with David and the academic interactions he created? Gabriela and Amina share beautiful examples from their individual encounters with David as an academic lead and a fellow human. Finally, we ask how to make someone like David possible in academia again and more?

At the end, they share their favourite readings. Listen to this conversation about a personal anthropological touch and the inheritance of David Graeber.

Social Media:

Amina: https://twitter.com/AminaSoulimani

Gabriela: https://twitter.com/gabi_cabana

Mentioned in Podcast

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber

The Utopia of Rules by David

Graeber

We are happy to have David with us speaking to his background and current work at the intersection of academia and the applied sector. He shares his path into anthropology and his multiple research projects as well as gives insight into what motivated his choices to leave spaces of engagement or to take on new opportunities. As speaker at the Why the world needs Anthropologists conference

he shares how he will be contributing to the themes as well as his advice and thoughts to those considering to attend.

Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Mentioned:

Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation,

September 2022 https://www.applied-anthropology.com/session/regeneration-talk-iv-2/

Social Media:

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidprendergast/

Katia Dumont is a Regional Network Organizer for Southwestern Europe for the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a consultant for foundations and social enterprises in venture philanthropy. She spent various years setting up and building the regional chapter for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs – ANDE of Development Entrepreneurs based out of Mexico City, where she enabled research, facilitated collaboration between a community of stakeholders for the small and growing business sector, and provided a base for knowledge management and practical applications.

Katia also is part of the Board of Directors of Value For Women Ltd., a social enterprise on a mission to promote women’s economic participation, leadership, and entrepreneurship by bringing a gender lens to business practices. Her interest in (eco)systems sparked her passion to create a regenerative future by engaging in agriculture and the broader human/nature system that supports it.

We are happy to have Katia with us speaking to her background and current work in community development. She speaks to her intent of contributing to the creation of safer and braver community spaces where relationships are anchored in trust instead of transactions. We also explore together several topics such as: how to balance engaging in community action with the observer role? 

How to create space for flourishing futures for all?

As speaker at the Why the world needs Anthropologists conference, she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend.

Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Mentioned:

Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation, September 2022: https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/katia-dumont/

Stuff, Daniel Miller https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stuff-Daniel-Miller/dp/0745644244

How Forests Think, Eduardo Kohn  https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520276116/how-forests-think 

Social Media:

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/katia-dumont-a724b818/?originalSubdomain=es

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories.

Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming in 2022 from Inner Traditions.

Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions. Her books of poetry include Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan). Her poems and essays have been published by Art PAPERS, The Dark Mountain Project, Poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way, Creatrix, Your Impossible Voice, The Doris, Persephone’s Daughters, and Entropy. She has recently finished a work of historical fiction, The Madonna Secret, that offers an eco-feminist revision of the gospels.  She is currently researching her next epic, a mythopoetic exploration of ecology and queerness in the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde.

Today we speak about the importance of listening to one’s body and its unexpected ways to bring out intellectual results and eventually new academic fruits. For Sophie, storytelling was a way out of trauma and around pain and then became her academic method allowing to border-cross paradigms and fuse ideas. We ask how to create safety in these

subversive spaces? And how to confront the reactions of disapproval and discontent?

Sophie leads us through her story of following that sensory vein and shares the ways that could work for others as eager to improvise. Listen to the episode to reflect on our intellectual editing processes together.  

(TW: this conversation touches on trauma and mental health).

Mentioned in Podcast:

Anne Rice

Bayo Akomolafe

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas

Andreas Weber

Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

Social media:

Sophie

Strand

Her work increasingly explores the intersection between the design of socio-technical systems and transitions theory to consider new methodological opportunities. Rebecca works

with public and private organisations to support the application of design upon complex innovation challenges. While the predominant domain of her work to date has been mobility (aviation, automotive, urban transport), her methodological research, in particular, holds increasing value to domains related to public health and energy transitions that stem from a socio-technical perspective of the possibilities of design.

In today’s episode, Rebecca speaks to her passions and drives as a designer, innovative thinker, and teacher. We are curious to hear her thoughts on friction and ways to approach it, on challenges that multidisciplinary settings may bring, and means that allow her to keep up to her expectations. How has her sports background contributed to her resilience? In the second part of our talk, Rebecca shares what inspired her to carry out the project “100 Days” – Graduating during Covid19“.

Hear her speak on ways to facilitate students in challenging times, on mutual awareness, ways of being a mentor of value, and the reasons she finds teaching so important.

Social Media:

Rebecca’s LinkedIn

While pursuing research in ecologically-minded curriculum design and teaching courses in environmental philosophy, Pavel is also a passionate endurance and adventure runner. Over the past five years through a project called Climate Run, Pavel has covered hundreds of miles in the Arctic and subarctic on foot in order to bring attention to the connections between our bodies and the more-than-human world in the face of a rapidly changing climate.

In this podcast episode, Pavel shares his work at Schumacher College but also other personal discoveries and aspirations. Together, we explore educational practices that blend theoretical pursuits with immersive community action and the human with the more than human. Can we use ecology as a blueprint for learning models? How to define a scientific method within the framework of regenerative learning? How to take the individual embodied practice and make it resonate with a broader audience? Join us in this conversation.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Schumacher College

Timothy Morton

Into the cracks, by Bayo Akomolafe

Social media:

Pavel’s LinkedIn

Pavel’s Instagram:

(https://www.instagram.com/climate_run/)

Pavel’s website:

http://www.climaterun.org

His interdisciplinary orientation spans two main areas: political economy & ecology; and digitalisation, new media and communication.

His approach is characterised by a systemic integration of ethnography, macro-level structural analysis, and epistemological & reflexive inquiry, in the tradition of “big ideas” social science and social theory. He writes regularly for national and international media, such as Al Jazeera English, Boston Review, Foreign Affairs, Africa Is A Country, and Daily Maverick.

Today’s conversation engages us in many big questions that are also characteristic of Vito’s approach to work and life.

How do we interact with our physical and virtual environments and how do we communicate with algorithms?

How can we have green transitions that work socially and politically for people across the world?

How can we safeguard analogue life in the midst of accelerating digitalization, and what is the role nation states should play in ensuring a healthy equilibrium between analogue and digital forms of humanity and sociality? How does Vito feel about the digital “metaverse” and what kind of power and economic relations are at play in this project? Vito talks about the public engagement blog Corona Times and the grounded approach to the Covid-19 pandemic social scientists were able to offer in their blog posts. He speaks about individual freedom, self-restraint and care for others in the context of Covid-19 and shares insights going forward. Vito offers not only answers, but also more questions we should ask ourselves. Join us in this rich conversation. 

Mentioned in Podcast:

Public engagement blog Corona Times

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Vito Laterza, «Human-technology relations in an age of surveillance capitalism:

Towards an anthropological theory of the dialectic between analogue and digital

humanity»

Facebook-Cambridge

Analytical Data Scandal

HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa[VL1] ,

University of Cape Town

Social...]]>Vito Laterza is an anthropologist, development scholar and political analyst. He holds a MPhil in Social Anthropological Research and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Vito is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway, where he also leads the Digitalization and Sustainability focus area at the university’s Centre for Digital Transformation (CeDiT).

His interdisciplinary orientation spans two main areas: political economy & ecology; and digitalisation, new media and communication.

His approach is characterised by a systemic integration of ethnography, macro-level structural analysis, and epistemological & reflexive inquiry, in the tradition of “big ideas” social science and social theory. He writes regularly for national and international media, such as Al Jazeera English, Boston Review, Foreign Affairs, Africa Is A Country, and Daily Maverick.

Today’s conversation engages us in many big questions that are also characteristic of Vito’s approach to work and life.

How do we interact with our physical and virtual environments and how do we communicate with algorithms?

How can we have green transitions that work socially and politically for people across the world?

How can we safeguard analogue life in the midst of accelerating digitalization, and what is the role nation states should play in ensuring a healthy equilibrium between analogue and digital forms of humanity and sociality? How does Vito feel about the digital “metaverse” and what kind of power and economic relations are at play in this project? Vito talks about the public engagement blog Corona Times and the grounded approach to the Covid-19 pandemic social scientists were able to offer in their blog posts. He speaks about individual freedom, self-restraint and care for others in the context of Covid-19 and shares insights going forward. Vito offers not only answers, but also more questions we should ask ourselves. Join us in this rich conversation. 

Mentioned in Podcast:

Public engagement blog Corona Times

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Vito Laterza, «Human-technology relations in an age of surveillance capitalism:

Towards an anthropological theory of the dialectic between analogue and digital

humanity»

Facebook-Cambridge

Analytical Data Scandal

HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa[VL1] ,

University of Cape Town

Social Media:

Vito’s LinkedIn

Vito’s academic publications[VL2] 

 [VL1]This is the full name of the centre, HUMA comes first, as it is the

main brand.

 [VL2]Most of my research is available open access here

In search of purpose and sustainability, she developed a worldview of systems thinking in a quest of restoring ecosystems by building bridges between technology and nature by applying different business models and innovations. Desirée’s methods include action, storytelling, systemic narratives, and co-creation with a particular focus on the idea of regeneration – a driving factor in establishing truly sustainable and connected solutions.

We are pleased to have Desirée talking to us today about concepts that are key in both her professional and personal life such as regeneration and sustainable ecosystems weaved in and through the world of technology.

How can one work with technology and AI while staying in close mental and emotional affinity with all that is nature? What are the methods, principles, and approaches that Desirée has been exploring in her collaborations which help set up bridges between these two worlds? We are curious to hear how would a technology in tune with nature would look like in Desiree’s imagination. Join us on this episode to reflect on the inspiring possibilities that nature-based solutions can bring. 

We are pleased to be having Kathleen with us today talking about her passion, UX research, and the ways to teach and empower teams to do it themselves. Kathleen questions the skills that a UX researcher is often expected to have and shares her insights into what she believes makes a good researcher.  We explore together some of the practices she engages in in order to democratize research. Kathleen gives examples of projects where she led teams through a learning path with research and shares some lessons learned. Listen to the episode to hear all about it.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Art of hosting, https://www.artofhosting.org/

U-lab, https://u-lab.nl/nl

Insight Bonanza https://uxinsight.org/when-research-democratization-becomes-an-insights-bonanza/

Social Media:

Kathleen’s LinkedIn

Today’s episode is about opening to the world and to the self and attempting to connect the two in the pursuit of a meaningful life. In sharing his story, Eric takes us along in a reflection on how to be vulnerable and to dig deep in the pursuit of oneself.

• How to be equally a scholar, hunter, carpenter, community server and more?
• How does he find the balance between service for others and care for the self?
• How has he integrated his part-time academic self to his other selves and how does he monitor his own biases within his academic endeavours?
• Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

(PLEASE NOTE: This conversation touches on trauma, including intergenerational trauma, suicide, and mental health).

Mentioned in Podcast:

Quillwood Academy 

 Quillwood Podcast

We will dance with mountains, course by Bayo Akomolafe

Social Media:

Eric’s bio

Her areas of interest are economic anthropology, especially work, public policies for social protection, the care crisis, and transnational migration in enlarged Europe. Her research employs the perspective of gender, class, and other factors of social inequality and qualitative research methods: in-depth and semi-structured interviews, life histories, and ethnographic observations (although she has also collected data for mixed-methods projects).

Angelina is a member of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work of the Rovira i Virgili UniversityandNotus – applied social research centre.

Angelina is writing her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on domestic workers and the extractivist social organization of care in Europe. She has also written journalistic articles for the Polish and Spanish press that disseminate anthropological knowledge and social critique.

We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and dialectical relationship to activism & scholarship and takes us through the multiple projects she is currently engaged with. Lastly as a speaker of the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the planet she shares how she will be contributing   to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Mentioned:

https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/angelina-kussy/

Media :

You can reach her at Twitter: @angelinakussy and Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelina-Kussy-2

Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is a co-founder of the open-access social movements journal Interface and Editor-in-Chief of SocialMovement Studies. She holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Cristina publishes widely on politics, social movements and democracy in both academic and media outlets. Her three most recent books are Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (Oxford University Press); Social Movements in a Globalized World (Palgrave Macmillan/Red Globe); and The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Routledge).

Mentioned:

Why the World needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/cristina-flesher-fominaya/

Media :

Check Cristina Flesher Fominaya’s profile at academia.edu and Google Scholar Profile

Recommended reading – all open-access PDF: 

Collective Identity in Social Movements: Central Concepts and Debates

Feminism, women´s movements and women in movement

Redefining the Crisis/ Redefining Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain’s PAH Movement

Creating Cohesion from Diversity: The Challenge of Collective Identity Formation in the Global Justice Movement

We are happy to have Julienne with us speaking to her background and current work at the intersection of scholarship and political activism. How to look at & engage with patterns of political mobilization with attention to the local? How to navigate being an expert and an activist ? How to engage with the discomfort of being labeled an expert on Nicaragua?  She speaks to how she deals with affect and neutrality in her work  but also to the process of producing knowledge through intimate encounters with other people’s policies. Lastly as a speaker of Why the world needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

The Human Show - World Podcasts

We are happy to have Alex with us speaking to his background and current work at the intersection of scholarship and political engagement. Alex shares how he came into his path as well as the unfolding of his conflicted relationship with academia, researching and teaching in the space of political imagination. What can research do with and for social movements ? How can we use research as a tool to make the struggles for social justice stronger and more ambitious ?. Alex gives us a small glimpse into Radical Imagination, a project where he – together with other scholars – attempts to find answers to these questions. Lastly as a speaker of Why the world needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet he shares how he will be contributing to the theme as well as his advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Why the World needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet September 2021 https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/alex-khasnabish/

Learn more about the Radical Imagination project.

Social Media :

Website :  https://alexkhasnabish.com/

Mark and Tom have collaborated for many years on developing programs of applied ethnography. We are curious to know their reasons, methods and lessons learned. Mark and Tom emphasize the value of digging into the problem before starting to look for solutions. But how do they make it work and how did they design a course that gives students the tools to do that? What are the skills students are expected to develop and what questions to answer? Is there certain theory that helps achieve the goals defined by the program? Mark and Tom reflect on their own approach to ethnology, on the role context plays - different in Sweden and in Denmark, and on the importance of having the right colleagues to work with. Lastly they offer advice for those interested in walking a similar path.  

Mentioned in Podcast:

Multi-targeted ethnography and the Challenge of Engaging New Audiences and Publics, Thomas O'Dell, 2017, In: Sociological Research Online. 22, 4, p. 193-207 

Handbook of Anthropology in Business, Edited By Rita M Denny and Patricia L Sunderland, 2016, Routledge

Social Media:

Tom - https://www.kultur.lu.se/en/person/ThomasODell

Mark -  https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/ethnology/?pure=en/persons/201204

Dr. Ferne Edwards is a cultural anthropologist specializing in sustainable cities, food systems and social change and works across disciplines including geography, design, health, and planning. Ferne is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU, Norway working on Socially and Environmentally Just Transitions specialising in urban natures. She has conducted research in Australia, Venezuela, Ireland and Spain on food waste, urban beekeeping, non-monetised alternative food economies, and food sharing, contributing to more than 30 publications. Ferne is also highly active in running international collaborative networks and events: she ledEdiCitNet to establish an international edible cities network; is an UrbanA Fellow for Just and Sustainable Cities, Awards Director for ‘Why the World Needs Anthropologists’, Review Editor for Frontiers Journal, and an Australian Anthropology Society Fellow. In 2013 Ferne was appointed a World Social Science Fellow by theInternational Social Science Council, and in 2016 became a Fellow of the Australian Anthropology Society and an Honorary Associate at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. 

Mentioned in Podcast:

Why The World Needs Anthropologists, https://www.applied-anthropology.com/

Nelson, Anitra; Edwards, Ferne. (2021) Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices. Routledge. 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-43646-9

Open Table, https://www.open-table.org/what-we-do

Pollen, Political Ecology Network, https://politicalecologynetwork.org/about/

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, https://www.ntnu.edu/

Social media:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferne-edwards/

We are pleased to have Dr. Ferne Edwards, a cultural anthropologist with us talking about anthropology of food – a field that has been at the core of her research and professional focus for the last 17 years.

We are talking to Marillis today about her contribution to and expectations from the soon-to-be-happening Response-ability Summit! She shares research insights which led Method X Studios to the development of Wakey – an app targeting left behind populations who are currently not benefitting from the digital mental health boom but who are most in need of it. What was the reason for choosing this field and this topic as a research focus? As she herself points out, Mariliis is relatively new to the industry space and is in the process of defining it for herself. We wonder how she feels in this multidisciplinary space and what strikes her as new, difficult or inspiring. We talk of the relationship between industry and academia in the context of the summit and beyond. At last, she shares what to expect from her talk at the summit, who should come listen and what motivated her to join.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Response-ability Summit, May 20-21 (Formerly Anthropology + Technology Conference) https://response-ability.tech/ 

Method X Studios, https://www.methodxstudios.com/

Wakey, https://www.wakey.life/

Social media:

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtoeren/

We have the pleasure of talking to Agnethe today about her approach as a design anthropologist and her recent research on an “algorithm-journey” model, which will be presented at the upcoming Response-ability Summit on May 20-21st 2021. The method has been created using Service Design tools and allows to map the algorithm journey in order to identify the touchpoints relevant to different stakeholders. ‘One thing is claiming an explanation, another thing is giving an explanation that makes sense’ says Agnethe. In order to implement AI in an ethical way, we need to decide what do we expect from a human and why is it different from what we expect from an algorithm. No less relevant question, according to Agnethe, is how much transparency do we really need? We are curious to learn more about the method and the insights she took away from the research. Finally we ask Agnethe, what is it about the summit that makes it feel like a place to return to each year. Listen to the episode to find out.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Response#Ability Summit, May 20-21 (Formerly Anthropology + Technology Conference) https://response-ability.tech/ 

Danish Design Centre, https://danskdesigncenter.dk/en/frontpage

Alexandra Instituttet, https://alexandra.dk/

Social media:

Agnethe Kirstine Grøn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnethegroen/

Mentioned in Podcast:

Response-ability, Formerly Anthropology + Technology Conference, May 20-21, https://response-ability.tech/

IsITethical, https://www.isitethical.org/

Dancing with the trouble, https://www.malelujanescalante.com/project-01

Social media:

Malé Luján Escalante, https://www.malelujanescalante.com/

Luke Moffat, https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-robert-moffat-872a82ba/

We are delighted to have Karen speaking to her experience as a filmmaker and artist documenting the world from an anthropological perspective. We are curious to know how Karen deals with the complex question of representation of the individuals and communities whose lives her films bring to a two dimensional form. How does she approach her own positionality? And what place does theory take in her visual work? Karen reflects on the way she engages the communities she works with and on her approach to co-create and enable groups to have a direct voice. How to distinguish between authorship and facilitation? At the end, we ask Karen to give advice to those who might be considering visual anthropology as a career path and to tell our listeners about her own success drivers that accompanied her throughout her interesting journey. 

Mentioned in Podcast:

MacDougall, David (2019). The Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking. Manchester University Press.

Social media:

Website : https://www.karenboswall.com/

Mentioned in Podcast:

Teak research, http://www.teakresearch.com/

Miro, visual collaboration platform, https://miro.com/

Daniel Miller, How to conduct an ethnography during social isolation,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSiTrYB-0so

Social Media:
Tiffany: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ycttivasuradej/

Sawyer:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sawyer-lahr-28066519/

Mentioned in Podcast:

Everything Design Show, https://anchor.fm/everything-design-show

Mentioned in Podcast:

The Royal Anthropological Institute, Illustrating Anthropology,    https://illustratinganthropology.com/jennifer-cearns/

Being Human Podcast, https://anchor.fm/public-anthropologists

Website - https://www.jennifercearns.com/

In today’s episode we talk to Wendy about her experience of shaping design anthropology and the ways collaborative research practices in this emerging field have evolved. How does she reconcile the designer, architect and anthropologist that dwell within her? In what ways has the cross-disciplinary collaboration given Wendy strength to navigate different kinds of design processes and practices? We inquire about the challenges and difficulties that this navigation sometimes implies. We reflect on research as a future making practice and on ways of being a researcher within that space. We close with stimulating questions and a research case: how do you conduct fieldwork without actually being there?  How can you as a researcher make research practices more sustainable? and how do you engage astronauts  in carrying out anthropological research? 

Mentioned in podcast:

Tim Ingold, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ingold

Sara Green, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Green_(anthropologist)

Sarah Pink, https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/sarah-pink

Karen Barad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Barad

Kathleen Stewart, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/d9109

Jacob Buur, https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/buur

Christian Clausen, https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100768

Over the last thirty years, Mikko has led complex, multicultural, and interdisciplinary initiatives and organisations, building teams and meaningful solutions in humanitarian work and business contexts, in many cases linking technical and social goals. 

Next to SMEs, start-ups, and multinationals, he worked with organizations such as the Red Cross, EU, UNICEF the World Bank in the UK, Finland, Brazil, and multiple other Asian, African, and South American countries. Key areas of research and professional practice include design driven education and training, value-intensive management, service design and innovation, policymaking, business models and ecosystems, entrepreneurship, and global management.

Today we are pleased to have Mikko Koria is with us and engage in a reflective chat about design, research, identity, interdisciplinarity and ethics. Mikko introduces himself as a person who has never quite figured it out and is constantly driven by curiosity to understand what is around the corner. 

From here on, we discuss design innovation and its inherent interdisciplinarity. How does a designer use the co-creation tools differently from an anthropologist? How to give voice to the people who do not understand their input? How to work around different agendas and achieve a joint meaning? At the end, Mikko reflects on the humane qualities that might bring a design practitioner closer to figuring out the unknowns.

Mentioned in Podcast: Institute for Design Innovation at Loughborough University London, https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/institutes/design-innovation/

Social media: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikko-koria-44864a1/

Corina and Maria talk to Simone about the anthropology of energy, ethics in the field of energy governance and sustainability dilemmas for individuals and communities alike. What questions brought Simone, an engineering graduate, to anthropology? Simone reflects on her own ethnography learning process, the challenge of entering a new knowledge area and the fresh perspectives brought by engaging with other disciplines. We explore other questions such as: can energy possibly have an international ethical foundation and how to reconcile different epistemological notions in order to arrive at a common understanding? What about the balance between social inequality and sustainability measures? Simone shares her thoughts and experiences as a researcher, academic and an individual actively engaged in community building practices. 

Mentioned in Podcast:

Durham Energy Institute, https://www.dur.ac.uk/dei/

Arctic encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North, http://heranet.info/projects/hera-2012-cultural-encounters/arctic-encounters-contemporary-travelwriting-in-the-european-high-north/

Just Transition: Pathways to Socially Inclusive Decarbonisation, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344475984_Just_Transition_Pathways_to_Socially_Inclusive_Decarbonisation

Wendy Parker on climate modelling, https://durham.academia.edu/WendyParker

Timothy Morton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Morton

Social media:

Twitter: @MScEnSoc

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-abram/?originalSubdomain=uk

Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research as well as an E.J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University. Mary holds an M.A. in Anthropology from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in communications at University of California, San Diego. She also serves on the Executive Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and is a past board member of the American Anthropological Association. More recently, Mary has also turned her attention to the emerging field of AI and ethics, focusing on research methods that bring computer and social sciences together.

Elizabeth J Chin is a professor at Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena and the Editor-in-Chief of the American Anthropologist. She holds a double major degree in Drama and Anthropology from New York University and a PhD in Anthropology from the City University of New York. Her work spans a variety of topics–race, consumption, Barbie–but nearly always engages marginalized youth in collaboratively taking on the complexities of the world around them. Taking writing very seriously, Elizabeth’s work increasingly investigates the ethnographic voice with an eye toward decolonizing anthropological knowledge as it appears on the page.

Prior to that, Mary obtained her B.A. in Anthropology and Native American studies at University of California, Davis, a M.A. in Anthropology from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in communications at University of California, San Diego. She also serves on the Executive Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and is a past board member of the American Anthropological Association.

Her single-authored work takes up interests in how we do ethnographically-informed media research and the implications of media in the lives of those who have limited access to it or contribute to information and data economies in ways that often go unnoticed. More recently, Mary has also turned her attention to the emerging field of AI and ethics, focusing on research methods that bring computer and social sciences together

We are delighted to be talking to Mary today! Her impressive career path at the intersection of business and academia shows that it is possible to develop both as a scholar and a practitioner of anthropology. We ask Mary to go back in time to when she discovered her anthropological side and share how it manifested itself She speaks to the key role curiosity has played and continues to play in her life and career. We ask her several questions. How much freedom to contest, reflect and choose does a researcher have when working in the Microsoft Research team? What does it take for a company to create knowledge and when should that knowledge be public or private? At the end Mary reflects on her own positionality and means to continuously re-center and the special place that scholarly communities have in this process.

Mentioned in podcast:

Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, 2019 ( https://ghostwork.info/ )

Social media:

Biography: https://marylgray.org/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marylgraymsr/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/marylgray?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

We are excited to have Lisa with us today talking about ethics & technology. As a digital sociologist she researches the intersection between computer, theory and social life as she approaches technology as a social system in itself rather than a product inside a system. How does this approach shape Lisa’s work? What are some of the major breakthroughs this system has gone through in the last decade? What are the most pressing issues created by technology and how to prevent dehumanization? Next to these questions, we also explore others like what’s the difference between Tinder and adds in a newspaper and how did we get so comfortable with getting into cars with strangers on Uber? Lastly, Lisa also gives a sneak preview of her conference talk and shares her personal motivation for attending it. 

Mentioned in Podcast:

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October

Goldsmiths, University of London

Ipsos research on trust, Ipsos Thinks-Trust: The Truth

TEDxSquareMile talk by Lisa Talia Moretti, Technology is not a product, it’s a system

Social media:

LinkedIn

Twitter

Erin B. Taylor is a consultant, researcher and writer with 17 years of experience designing and implementing projects, directing teams, managing budgets, and producing outputs for diverse audiences. She holds a PhD in Socio Cultural Anthropology from Sydney University and was a postdoctoral researcher on financial mobility at the University of Lisbon.  Erin is the co-founder of Canela Consulting, an ethnography-driven research and consulting group focused on finance and technology. Her topical specializations include questions on financial stress & financial inclusion, impact on new regulations & products on consumers, economic value & attitudes that shape society and more.

In today’s episode Erin and Corina talk to Rachel, a speaker at the Anthropology + Technology 2020 conference taking place on October 9th online. As the host of the fintech stream, Erin takes us through the setup and gives us some hints on what to expect. Rachel, as one of the speakers on her panel gives us a preview of her talk and takes us through her innovative work on surveillance capitalism, mobile networks and payments. What is surveillance capitalism? What are some of the effects of surveillance capitalism on consumers? Rachel and Erin reflect on the similarities between the field of art and the field of money research. What do art and money have in common? At the end both reflect on what would an ideal research center look like and share their expectations of the conference and those in attendance.

Episode Links:

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th , 12th October, 

https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Moving Through Sound: The Role of Mobile Sonic Technologies in a User’s Experience of Urban Place London: Lambert Academic Publishing, (Monograph published from M.Phil thesis), 2010.​

Whitespaces: A Political Economy of Radio Currently Under Review with MIT Press, Leonardo Series

Rachel O’Dwyer: http://www.rachelodwyer.com

Erin Taylor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinbtaylor/

We are delighted to be talking to Nani about digitalization, individual rights and freedoms and ways to sustain a just and inclusive society. Nani speaks from the perspective of law and humans rights – a framework, she believes, is still the right one to empower individuals in the age of hyper-digitalization. We ask Nani how is Google different from a public space? What are the threats but also the opportunities of the technological development brought about by covid19? We discuss the position of a consumer in the online space and, as Nani puts it, the under-estimated power that we hold but often need to actively resume. Nani speaks to her field of digital rights decolonization and shares insights of the challenges that underline it. Lastly, she shares her excitement about the digital format of this year’s A & T conference as it enhances its accessibility.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October, https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/

Media Legal Defense Initiative, https://www.mediadefence.org/

Berkman Klein Center, https://cyber.harvard.edu/

Digital Freedom Fund, https://digitalfreedomfund.org/

Social media: https://www.nanijansen.org/ @InterwebzNani

Today we talk to Rasmus about his mission of bridging the gap between technology builders, and the problem spaces technology can play a role in solving. This process – believes Rasmus - entails curiosity, creativity and multidisciplinary. But how to help see the real problems that are worth solving and how can insightful design create technology that adds social value and does not completely remove friction? Our reality is full of contradictions and a good design leaves space for friction in order to support truly human experiences. Rasmus brings in unexpected concepts of masculine and feminine energies to explain the processes in which his work evolves. Lastly, we ask him to give a sneak preview of his talk at the conference on smart cities. 

Mentioned in Podcast:

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October, https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/

IS IT A BIRD, https://isitabird.dk/

Design Thinking Bootcamp at Stanford University. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exec-ed/programs/design-thinking-bootcamp

Social media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmusgrthomsen/

Rosalie Post is fellow anthropologist and advisor in the housing sector in the Netherlands. Her research interests too centre on the topic of sustainable housing and its governing mechanisms. She currently works for a consultancy firm that...]]>Dan Wu is the CEO and lead innovation advisor of Joyful Ventures, empowering social impact executives to create financially sustainable, high-growth ventures. With a unique blend of Silicon Valley expertise and Harvard-level insights, he has successfully led product teams at mission-driven startups. Dan's work on inclusive communities and responsible nnovation has been published in outlets like the World Economic Forum, Fast Company, and TechCrunch. Holding a JD and PhD from Harvard, he brings a deep understanding of cross-sector social capital formation. Dan's approach is rooted in his experience as a first-generation college student, emphasizing inclusion and belonging in his practice. Connect with Dan Wu on Linkedin.

Rosalie Post is fellow anthropologist and advisor in the housing sector in the Netherlands. Her research interests too centre on the topic of sustainable housing and its governing mechanisms. She currently works for a consultancy firm that collaborates with municipalities on policy advice on housing projects. 

In today’s episode Rosalie and Dan reflect on the concept of ideal city and the ways we can use technology to achieve it. Dan points out that despite its benefits, technology can easily obscure its many disadvantages. We have not yet managed to accommodate the voices that lack resources and are excluded from the participation. Can AI generated data substitute those voices and if so what are the ethical ways to do that? How much progress has been done in making cities more inclusive in the last 60 years? Dan, Rosalie and Corina dive into a reflective exchange of cases famous in the history of city design and governance - from the ideologically-focused emergence of Brasilia to Taiwan’s response to SARs. Lastly, Dan shares stories and initiatives that have helped cities move in the right direction and reflects on the way forward.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Zencity, https://zencity.io/about

Oscasr Niemeyer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Niemeyer

James Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-City-Anthropological-Critique-Brasilia/dp/0226349799

Le Corbusier, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier

Jane Jacobs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs

Robert Moses, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

Social media:

Dan’ s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wu12345/

Rosalie’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalie-anne-post-66007b134/

Today we talk about digital futures – what’s ahead for us and how to best shape it together in a multi-disciplinary manner. Susan shares what she thinks have been the fundamental disruptions brought about by digitalization and brings forth many insightful examples from her field of work: the making of socio-digital futures. We explore the challenges of working together with technology experts and the ways in which we can better facilitate multidisciplinary approaches and give space for experimentation. According to Susan, digitalization ties up challenges and opportunities and provides a window to try and reconfigure the status quo. She explores how covid-19 has exacerbated AI processes and the new discussions it could help spark. Finally, Susan shares her expectations from the Anthropology Technology conference and her hope that it will further facilitate the making of socio-digital futures. 

Mentioned in Podcast

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October, https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/

Bristol’s University Digital Futures Institute, https://www.bristol.ac.uk/bristol-digital-futures-institute/

Southampton’s University Web Science Instituted, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/index.page

Catherine Ingram, Facing Extinction, https://www.catherineingram.com/facingextinction/

Social Media

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-halford-46054028/

Mentioned in Podcast:

European Research Council project "Becoming Men", http://www.becoming-men.org/

Protest movement sin South Africa in 2015: #RhodesMustFall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall; 

#FeesMustFall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeesMustFall

Social media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saritafaejarmack/

https://www.instagram.com/awkward.ethnographer/

Dr. Kadija Ferryman is a cultural anthropologist who studies the social, cultural, and ethical implications of health information technologies. Specifically, her research examines the impacts of health risk prediction technologies as they relate to marginalized groups. She earned a BA in Anthropology from Yale University, and a PhD in the Anthropology from The New School for Social Research. Before completing her PhD, she was a policy researcher at the Urban Institute where she studied how housing and neighborhoods impact well-being. She is currently a Researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York where she leads the Fairness in Precision Medicine research study. She is also a Mozilla Fellow and will be examining how health information technologies address health disparities. 

Dr Laura Sobola is a Senior Consultant at Unai and has participated in management and delivery of healthcare related projects, as well as data science projects. She studied Human Genetics at Newcastle University and has a doctorate in biochemistry from University of Oxford. Recently, she has been researching and helping to implement an ethical framework for Unai, which has reignited her interest in ethics. 

In today’s episode, we talk to Chui Chui about her career path, which she had to pave herself in the absence of a structured frame. From mechanical engineering to acculturalisation of products, she shares how she came along her methods and principles of work as well as how they have helped her shape projects and lead cross-functional teams. She reflects on the importance of blending historical context with understanding everyday user actions in order to achieve better innovation. We ask her how to optimally balance proper research with cost and time constraints?  Finally we explore how Chui Chui is dealing with doing research in times of COVID and how has she adapted to meet the needs of remote work? 

Erin B. Taylor is a consultant, researcher and writer with 17 years of experience designing and implementing projects, directing teams, managing budgets, and producing outputs for diverse audiences. She holds a PhD in Socio Cultural Anthropology from Sydney University and was a postdoctoral researcher on financial mobility at the University of Lisbon.  Erin is the co-founder of Canela Consulting, an ethnography-driven research and consulting group focused on finance and technology. Her topical specializations include questions on financial stress & financial inclusion, impact on new regulations & products on consumers, economic value & attitudes that shape society and more.

In today’s episode Erin and Corina talk to Diana, a speaker at the Anthropology + Technology 2020 conference taking place on October 9th online. As the host of the fintech stream, Erin takes us through the setup and gives us some hints on what to expect. Diana, as one of the speakers on her panel gives us a preview of her talk and takes us through her innovative work on circular economy and local money together with the challenges that come with it and the research still missing to make it work better. How can money save humanity? How to stop pointless purchases and turn to a different kind of economy in which products and services are about value and not just the price? Localization of money is a way towards creating a more ethical and sustainable consumption and Bristol Pound is on a mission to make it happen. At the end both share their expectations of the conference and those in attendance.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October: https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/

Bristol Pound, https://bristolpound.org/about/

Dawn Walter, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-walter-b36903a/

Timebanking, https://timebanks.org/what-is-timebanking/

University of Bath, https://www.bath.ac.uk/

University of West of England, https://www.uwe.ac.uk/

Social media

Diana Finch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianafinch/

Erin Taylor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinbtaylor/

In today’s episode we are joined by Dawn Walter, Anthropologist and Organizer to discuss the Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, its current theme and streams on the topic of Championing Socially-Responsible AI.

Registration opens in July.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• AUTOMATING INEQUALITY, How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Virginia Eubanks, St. Martin's Press

• Mundy and Anson

Social media and other links:

www.anthtechconf.co.uk

info@anthtechconf.co.uk

http://www.mundyandanson.co.uk/

EN Henrique Parra & Ricardo Teixeira, amplifying the debate: The role of scientists and social scientists in times of uncertainty

In this session, we continue the conversation we started in the previous episode with Ricardo Teixeira and Henrique Parra. Ricardo is a sanitary doctor, specialized in collective health, and professor at the São Paulo University (USP) in the preventive medicine department, where he develops research focusing on health communication. Henrique is a sociologist and a social sciences professor at UNIFESP, where he coordinates a technology, politics and knowledge lab called Pimenta Lab.

In this episode, we deepened our conversation, questioning the sense of responsibility and the feeling of impotence when facing a reality in which it seems hard to glimpse a positive future.

Ricardo resumed the idea of social medicine, viewing it as a social science. He highlighted the significance of taking economic, social and political measures at this point.

Contrasting the neoliberal model, in which the individual is encouraged to care for his health autonomously in several instances, the interviewees highlighted the vulnerability the pandemic brought. They debated how this makes us realize how interdependent we are, and how we need the collective, the bonds, and the affections to live.

We debated about how social scientists could act within the current circumstances, highlighting a transdisciplinary view of life in society. They reiterated the importance of allying the health and the humanities field.

We concluded this conversation by reflecting on the future, the environmental implications, and possible transformations in the perception over the individual and the collective. Finally, we talked about what we could not only learn but put into action from everything we are experiencing.

In times of so many uncertainties, we talked to a doctor and a sociologist to help us with having a bit more clarity over the moment we are living. On one side, we brought the sanitary doctor Ricardo Teixeira, who is specialized in collective health. With more than 35 years of professional experience, he is a professor at São Paulo University (USP) in the preventive medicine department. He focuses his investigations on health care communication. On the other side, we invited the sociologist Henrique Z.M. Parra, a social sciences professor at Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). There, he coordinates the Laboratory of Technology, Politics and Knowledge (aka Pimentalab). His research focus is on social studies of science and technology, and technopolitics.

We started talking about how different countries are responding to deal with the dissemination of COVID-19. Focusing on Brazil, apart from an overview of the health care system’s reality, in which there are insufficient tests, we also discussed the difficulty for many Brazilians to follow the social isolation measurements.

Although the short-term perspectives are not that optimistic, Henrique proposed an interesting view on alternative uses of technology smartly. Instead of focusing on approaches that reinforce individual responsibility, he suggests an amplification to look at uses of technology that promotes the collective engagement if face of the pandemic.

We discussed the State’s role and performance in the Brazilian context. They both shared their views on the significance of civil initiatives that have been emerging as responses to circumvent the State’s absence in specific moments. They also pointed out how the public health system (SUS) has been gaining relevance. For instance, they mentioned SUS’ strategic strengths and the front lines workers’ recognition by society. All of this, considering that the system is under-financed by the State, which becomes more evident.

We also talked about cultural and structural issues. From the disobedience at various levels to the way the tax system contributes to deepening social inequalities, even when it comes to the health system.

This is just the first part of our conversation, which continues into the next episode.

For the transcript of this episode, please visit: https://worldpodcasts.com/the-human-show/

Jamie takes us through her journey of becoming a cultural strategist working for the biggest corporate names – a path, she says, that her younger self would not have imagined. Yet she is loving every bit of it and is sharing with us her enthusiasm for the job she does in which ethnography is her main tool to make a difference. How did Jamie move from research to innovation? A social scientist has the rare ability to become a practitioner of many tools and marketing can be the place where we can actually change the world in many ways, says Jamie. She shares examples of how has she managed to bring humanity into business and what methods she relies on to get her insights to have a real impact. We talk about the power of storytelling and the potential of anthropology. 

*at the time of this recording, Jamie was a freelance strategist.  In February 2020 she joined the amazing team at The Mighty Shed.

Mentioned in Podcast:

EPIC, https://www.epicpeople.org/         

Consumer culture theory, https://www.facebook.com/groups/213134458706536/

AC Nielsen, https://www.nielsen.com/be/en/

The Soulful Project, https://thesoulfullproject.com

Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandsherpa/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebrandsherpa?lang=en

El Laboratorio de Antropología Abierta (The Open Anthropology Lab) or LAAB is a non-profit organization for the popularization of anthropological knowledge beyond academia. Founded in 2018 by Giselle Figueroa De la Ossa, who after receiving her MSc in Anthropology from The London School of Economics returned back home to Colombia and decided to create a platform opening anthropology for public debate. The LAAB is a space in which anthropological knowledge is translated into an audiovisual language in order to bring anthropology closer to more diverse audiences. It is open to students, graduates and professionals who wish to apply anthropological methods in creative ways. Camila Castillo and Daniela Suarez Valenzuela have joined the LAAB as students and stayed to become part of the permanent team. 

Today we speak with Giselle, Camila and Daniela about the experimental ways to apply anthropology in a new context to us – Colombia, and wonder what inspired the emergence of this open anthropology platform.  How to create a mediating space between two anthropologies, the enclosed academic one the applied limited to industry research only? The LAAB allows for experimentation and exploration of methods that are often new to the anthropologists joining the collective.  How to translate an academic text into a textbook and not distort the knowledge? How conveying ethnography to children can educate them about the social world though empathy in a non-normative way? We reflect on the challenges of organizing this experiment, the moments that make it worth going forward and the profound conviction about the anthropological power to transform the world. 

The episode being in Spanish perfectly reflects the spirit of LAAB - it is a way to experiment with formats in order to hear the voice of the researcher in a new light, and to expand access of knowledge exchange. 

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El Laboratorio de Antropología Abierta: un espacio mediando entre la antropología acadeémica y aplicada: activando la experimentación y posibilitando la traducción del conocimiento

El Laboratorio de Antropología Abierta o el LAAB es una organización sin fines de lucro dirigida a la popularización del conocimiento antropológico más allá de la academia. Fundado en el 2018 por Giselle Figueroa De la Ossa, quien al cumplir su maestría en antropología en la London School of Economics regresó a Colombia y decidió crear una plataforma invitando a un debate público desde la antropología. El LAAB es un espacio donde el conocimiento antropológico está traducido a un lenguaje audiovisual con el objetivo de acercar la antropología a las audiencias más diversas. El LAAB está abierto a los estudiantes, graduados, y personas con perfiles más profesionales dispuestos a aplicar métodos antropológicos en unas formas creativas. Camila Castillo y Daniela Suarez Valenzuela se juntaron al Laboratorio como estudiantes y se quedaron a formar parte del equipo permanente. 

El episodio siendo en español refleja el espíritu del LAAB perfectamente – es una manera de experimentar con formatos para poder escuchar la voz del investigador con un nuevo enfoque, y expandir el acceso del intercambio del conocimiento.

The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science - WorldPodcasts.com

Mentioned in the podcast: 

University of Copenhagen, Department of Anthropology, https://anthropology.ku.dk/dep/

Smart Cities Accelerator (Co-Pi), https://smartcitiesaccelerator.eu

COMPASS (Collaborative Movements and Pathways to Sustainable Societies), http://compass.ku.dk

Today we talk to Gary about the topic of his extensive research – the Ancient Tea Horse Road in southern China and learn how much understanding of its origins and formation can tell about today’s China and its unique path to modernity. Gary gives a fascinating historical overview of the topic and shares his research discoveries of tea culture and its invisible great wall unifying ethnic minorities and strengthening China’s imperialism. How has the road helped to transform cultural and physical landscape and brought touristic modernity? Gary untangles the many interconnected aspects through his cross disciplinary approach and tells us about his soon-to-be-published book. Listen to the episode to hear more about it!

Episode Links:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garysigley/?originalSubdomain=au

Blog: www.chinawatch2050.com

Academia.edu: https://uwa.academia.edu/GarySigley

In today’s episode we talk to Laura about career transitions, ethics in technology development and the value of applied social science. Laura shares her path of becoming a UX researcher. Many of the turns that we take during our professional career, says Laura, are leaps of faith. Having discovered her interest in human-computer interaction when the field itself was only in the process of becoming means that she often had to believe to have the needed expertise and create her own professional goals. We ask Laura how did she come to make her choices, what does she consider to be the conditions for a cohesive cross-functional team to be successful and what to take into consideration when transitioning to industry from a more theoretical work place? At last we ask Laura about her view of the future in the field of machine learning and what should we be prepared for.

Laura Vardoulakis  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-vardoulakis-0182442a/

Kay is also a co-founder of the Consortium for Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the Robert E. Strauss Center, University of Texas and teach a course at the UT Law School for the Consortium: "Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies: Law and Policy". With her role leading AI learning efforts for the World Economic Forum Kay works with governments and businesses to address the challenges and implications of implementing artificial intelligence, such as ethics, regulation and bias.

Today we dive into the complex topic of AI ethics. As a pioneer in this field, Kay has co-founded and led a number of initiatives that are shaping global and national policies on ethical AI. Kay believes that for humans and AI to work together, governments need to think about AI in a strategic and ethical way. She elaborates on this collaboration giving examples from her projects in which she is currently engaged assisting multiple governments around the world to write AI policies. Dialogues with the population are essential in order to achieve ethical AI, says Kay, and academics are in the best position to help. During this episode Kay guides us though this complex subject and shares her advice on how to create ethical AI for now and the future.

Mentioned in podcast:

World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-technology-governance-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning

Deep Mind, https://deepmind.com/safety-and-ethics

AI GLOBAL, https://ai-global.org/

Lucid.AI, https://lucid.ai/

AI4ALL, http://ai-4-all.org/

AI FOR GOOD Foundation, https://ai4good.org/

Center of Humane Technology, https://humanetech.com/ 

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland on 21—24 January 2020 https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2020

AI Summit 2020 in Brussels on March 16-17, https://diievents.dii.eu/ai-summit/

WIRED Smarter, Conference in London on October 30, 2019, https://www.wired.co.uk/partnerships/wired-smarter/startups

Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kay-firth-butterfield-b5b3853a/

WEFORUM: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/kay-firth-butterfield/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kayfbutterfield?lang=en

He received the Edmund Hillary Fellowship in October 2019, allowing him to work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Marc is looking for partners interested in prototyping public policies and using performance data and success metrics to develop healthier organizational culture and better service delivery.

Today’s episode is more collaborative. Marc allowed the space for Corina, the host, to share some of her stories and experiences with applied anthropology. At the center of this dialogue is Aotearoa: a place where Corina started practicing applied anthropology and where Marc (at the time of this recording) headed there for a rapid ethnographic research project to learn from creative New Zealanders.

Throughout this episode we explore Marc’s blend of policy, tech, design and data, what makes New Zealand a unique place to practice applied anthropology, and feedback loops for a global collective of thoughtful practitioners.

Mentioned in the Podcast:

“Respond to dissatisfaction with creativity:” Insights from innovative New Zealanders: https://medium.com/@marc.k.hebert/respond-to-dissatisfaction-with-creativity-insights-from-innovative-new-zealanders-a76d1984f8ba

Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF), https://www.ehf.org/

Code for America, https://www.codeforamerica.org/

Connect with Marc:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hebert-0662bb1/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/anthromarc?lang=en

Mentioned in Podcast:

Anthropos, Ethnography Based Research NGO, https://anthropos.lt/

Vytautas Magnus University, https://www.vdu.lt/en/about-vmu/international-activities/

Social Science for Social Action, http://www.jaunradeslab.lv/en/node/30

BAGs, Baltic Anthropology Graduate School, http://baltic-anthro.blogspot.com/p/about.html

CAAE, Center for Applied Anthropology in Estonia, http://www.antropoloogia.ee/en/

Jaunrades Laboratorija, Lab of Applied Research in Latvia, http://www.jaunradeslab.lv/en

TED Kaunas, https://tedxkaunas.com/workshops/?

Magic Carpets Platform at Kaunas Biennial, http://magiccarpets.eu/

Film festival ‘Nepatogus Kinas’,

https://nepatoguskinas.lt/2019/en/,

https://nepatogauskinoklase.lt/

Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anthropos.lt/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anthroposanthropos/

In today’s episode, Suzanne talks about her experience of transitioning from academia to the business space as a linguistic anthropologist. Along this journey, she shares how her expertise in linguistic anthropology contributed to tackling implicit and day-to-day exposure to bias, prevalent in product development and organizations as a whole. She warns that these built-in biases can normalize a certain type of bias to the wider public of products and services and suggests a structural approach to create a more inclusive and safer environment for the process of product and organizational development. 

In today’s episode we talk to Gemma about the role and value of the anthropologist in the field of built environment. She invites us to reflect on the knowledge and its relation to the environment and to be aware of its interdependency. In a time when industry is beginning to look at social scientists for answers, how can we – says Gemma – step in as anthropologists while making sure we maintain our critical stance? Everyone is now obliged to think in terms of social value, so how can social scientists assist by providing those solutions? Gemma also gives us some insights into her talk in the WWNA Conference in Oslo. Listen to the episode to hear more about it. 

In today’s episode Morten explores the topic he will cover at the conference – urban orders, when the city models itself. He gives examples from his work of how sustainable urban design processes arise from the meshwork of social life in cities. He asks us to reflect on questions such as: how might people’s everyday urban practices be converted into viable resources for designing sustainable cities? What would it take for urban planning to become a medium of translation of the lived city into the planned city? What new models of urban sustainability might be discovered by taking seriously the force of urbanites’ concerted actions? His talk focuses on the productive dilemmas of allowing sustainable urban design processes to arise from the meshwork of social life in the cities. Building on a discussion of the forms of regularity that may come to characterize the relationship between social life in the cities and the built environment in the absence of formal planning agencies, it addresses the challenges of converting such ‘urban orders’ into prototypes for sustainable urban planning.

Episode Links:

https://www.applied-anthropology.com/programme/

https://www.mortennielsen.net/

Pardis Shafafi is a convenor of the Applied Anthropology Network and the lead coordinator for the WWNA conference. Pardis is a British-Iranian anthropologist specializing in political violence and peoples´ tribunals, she holds a doctoral degree from the University of St Andrews. She is currently an advisor and associate researcher with the European Research Council ´Off-Site´ project, and a senior researcher with international design studio, Designit, in Oslo.

In today’s episode we talk to Pardis about the organization of the conference, the reasons behind choosing the core themes and the challenges involved in making it all happen; this year’s theme – sustaining cities – which will bring together industry representatives and academics to challenge each other to hopefully become better in their practice; how the organizing team plans and hosts this space of togetherness. At the end Pardis gives some practical advice to the conference attendees. 

Why The world Needs Anthropologists, Sustaining Cities, 25-27 October, Oslo, Norway, https://www.applied-anthropology.com/

Jason explains how in the field of his work, building a good team isn’t about comparing or contrasting social to non-social science but about finding the synthesis of qualities required by a particular case. He gives examples from his personal journey of how to achieve those skills which are not included in university programs. 

Nicole, on the other hand, brings her anthropological lens into the scientific context and generates discussions about how the work that is being undertaken has deep and irreversible consequences for the way social scientists think. Lastly, they share their advice to young graduates considering to follow a similar path.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Berggruen Institute Fellowship Program, https://www.berggruen.org/fellowship-program/

Element AI, https://www.elementai.com/

Hackathon, https://www.hackathon.com/

Social Media:

Nicole: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolerigillo/

Jason: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonstanley2/

Podcast participants:

Gregor Cerinšek is the project manager of the PEOPLE project. He holds an MA in Human Resource Management from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. His work is oriented towards development and evaluation of different education and training concepts, models and programmes addressing real-life needs of industry and based on close collaboration between industrial and higher education environment. 

Maria Salaru PhD, Teaching Fellow in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London and Former Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University

Sara Arko, PhD is an anthropologist and a researcher in industry. In her PhD thesis, she explored the role of anthropology in international development cooperation, specifically in the context of intergovernmental and government organizations. She is a member of Metronik’s research group on Sustainable Development.

Nora Steenhuis, student of Student Culture, Organization and Management (Msc) International Business and Languages at VU Amsterdam

Today we are talking to Sara, Maria, Nora and Gregor – all actively engaged in the PEOPLE project and working towards a better and more efficient cooperation between higher education institutions and business. The speakers emphasize that the PEOPLE project is a problem-based and project-based learning experiment and share stories from their own experience of how this experiment evolved in practice. This approach allowed them to see the world of anthropology from a new perspective, and are curious to see if – in the future - the project helps change roles within academia as well as the expectations of industry partners towards anthropology.  Lastly we ask them for advice for both students interested in a more practical path and professionals who aspire to continuously learn. 

Mentioned in Podcast: 

The People Project, http://people-project.net/

WWNA, Why the World Needs Anthropologists, https://www.applied-anthropology.com/

Erasmus+, funding scheme to support activities in the fields of Education, Training, Youth and Sport, https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/node_en

Interbuilding Applied Anthropology Meetup, https://www.meetup.com/Interbuilding-Applied-Anthropology-Meetup/

Metronik, Company for Automation, Process Control and Digitalization in Industry and Buildings, https://metronik.net/

Before discovering anthropology, Roelof was actively involved in development projects in Ghana through software development initiatives within grassroot organizations. He is the founder of Creative.ai and Sunshine Lab as well as the influential AI-network Stockholm AI.

In today’s episode Roelof shares his personal journey of a culturally engaged software developer, a computer scientist turned into an anthropologist in an effort to produce ‘anti-disciplinary’ knowledge as he himself defines it. We talk about the numerous platforms Roelof initiated whose goal is to make life of scientists and designers more creative and about the importance of community -based internet as opposed to focusing on fast internet. He explains that his inspiration for projects comes from walking the path between utopias and dystopias. We ask Roelof to tell us more about the challenges of walking this path, the themes he will be speaking to at the Anthropology+Technology conference and to give ideas of hacks he would advise applied anthropologists to use if they are interested of pursuing a similar path.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roelofpieters/

In today’s episode we talk to Gloria about privacy and data protection law and the need for interdisciplinarity to thoroughly explore this space; the historical perspective on the contestation of data usage; the agency of the “normal” human of engaging with GDPR law; the age of consent; corporate transparency and the many challenges of artificial intelligence. Lastly, she shares her thoughts on the theme she will be speaking to at the Anthropology + Technology Conference, fundamental rights of expression and the individuals affected and her question to the social scientists in the room – who are the “normal” humans, how can we imagine them and give them rights in a meaningful way.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group
Anthropology + Technology Conference, Bristol October 3rd 2019: https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/

Social Media:
Interview with Gloria on the Anthro+Technology Conference blog
Twitter: @FusterGloria
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=zNALrDsAAAAJ&hl=en
Blog: https://glgonzalezfuster.blog
Gloria’s PhD

Mentioned in Podcast:
European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, http://ehbea.com/
Anthropology + Technology Conference, Bristol October 3rd 2019: https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/

Social Media:
Twitter: @j2bryson
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryson/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QOU1RTUAAAAJ&hl=en
Blog: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/

Today, the profile of ethnography in European industry is growing rapidly. Here in the Netherlands, EthnoBorrel, AbV, and the Interbuilding Applied Anthropology Meetup are some of the fora where ethnographic practitioners discuss their work. These developments provide an excellent opportunity for us to work together to strengthen our profession and demonstrate our value to industry. We can learn a lot from our North American counterparts, especially the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community (EPIC) who have been successful in promoting the use of ethnographic principles to create business value across different domains of industry.

In today’s episode we are joined by Rita Denny, Anthropologist, Partner at Practica Group and Executive Director at EPIC people and Erin Taylor, Anthropologist, Co-founder Canela Consulting and organizer EPIC Ethnoborrel to discuss the EPIC 2019 conference and the EPIC Ethnoborrel, their connected theme on the topic of Agency.

Call for workshops, Pecha Kuchas and panellists here

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Erin B. Taylor: Researching mobile money in Haiti & The Netherlands; The Ethics & Methods for asking people about money; regulation and financial design – The Human Show Podcast 10
• Practica Group LLC
• Canela Consulting
• EPIC People
• EPIC2019 Conference
• Dr. Laurens Bakker, University of Amsterdam
• Interbuilding Applied Anthropology Meetup, Amsterdam
• Anthropology Dutch Association (in Dutch)
• Ethnoborrel Building a Community of Practitioners - with special guest Rita Denny

Social media and other links:

EPIC Ethnoborrel Meetup Page

Capsule Episode Conference: Erin Taylor and Rita Denny, Agency in Applied Ethnography - An EPIC EthnoBorrel, November, 10th, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Today Nayantara engages us in a discussion about the technologies that effects the absolute majority of the entire population – pharmaceutical drugs, and more concretely - hormonal contraception. Having done extensive research on contraception in India, Nayantara talks about the multilayered causes and effects that science can have on our bodies. She gives examples of how the intended use of certain technologies create unintended logics, and instead of emancipating its users, further subjugate them. Nayantara challenges us with difficult questions: How to ensure that brown bodies do not become scapegoats in the discourse of climate change? Who creates AI that look like tiny barbies and speak like subjugated women? Should we not ask more of technology? At the end we ask Nayantara to give advice to pharmaceutical companies on how to do better.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Center for Science in Society, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, https://www.victoria.ac.nz/science/research/science-in-society?utm_source=short-url&utm_medium=1712793

Sheoran, N. (2011) Reading the i-pill advertisement: The pleasures and pressures of contemporary contraceptive advertising in India. In R. Chopra & R. Gajjala (Eds.), Global media, Culture, and Identity (pp 85-99). New York, NY: Routledg

Stuart Hall, Encoding/Decoding model of Communication, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding/decoding_model_of_communication

Climate Change Denial Lobby, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial

Social media:

Twitter - @nayantarapple

In today’s episode, we discuss with Tricia the impact of technological development on social movements as well as social change. Focusing on the development of social media, she explores how the #Metoo movement unfolded and what role Twitter played in it. Finally, she also explores the responsibility of social media and tech industry in engaging with social movement.

Tricia’s recent work:

American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism, edited by Gary Adler, Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks, Forthcoming 2019, Fordham University Press, Catholic Practice in North America Series

Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church, by Tricia Colleen Bruce, Oxford University Press (August 2017)

Polarization in the U.S. Catholic Church, edited by Mary Ellen Konieczny, Charles Camosy, and Tricia C. Bruce, Liturgical Press (2016)

Social media and other links to Tricia:

Website: https://triciabruce.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/triciacbruce?lang=en

In today’s episode, we talk to Mireille about the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), law and ethics. What is the impact of AI and smart technology on ethical dimension of human life? How does AI create the predictability of human behaviors and what are the implications of it? 3 pieces of advice for companies interested in the topic of ethics and AI.

Mentioned in Podcast:

How the body shapes the way we think
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-body-shapes-way-we-think
John Rawls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls

Mireille’s work:

Book Publications
Hildebrandt, M. (2019). Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk. Now in open review with MIT pubpub, it will be published by OUP later in 2019:
https://lawforcomputerscientists.pubpub.org

Hildebrandt, M. (2015). Smart technologies and the end (s) of law: novel entanglements of law and technology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Gutwirth, S., & Hildebrandt, M. (2008). Profiling the European citizen: Cross-disciplinary perspectives. Springer.

Mireille on other Podcasts:

BIG DATA (Radio in Dutch, 2018) https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/gdpr/10338785/big-data

Democracy in the 21st century: the impact of ICT (2018, Den Haag) https://www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/id/vkqzl6lxopjp/agenda/democratie_in_de_21e_eeuw_de_impact_van

Hearsay Culture Show (2006) https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/hearsay-culture-show-83-kzsu-fm-stanford/id131237275?i=1000049681292

Social media and other links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mireillehildebrandt/?originalSubdomain=be

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mireillemoret?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society studies (LSTS): https://lsts.research.vub.be/en/mireille-hildebrandt/

COHUBICOL: www.cohubicol.com

Mentioned in Podcast:

Anthropology + Technology Conference, Bristol October 3rd 2019: http://www.mundyandanson.co.uk/blog/anthropology-plus-technology-conference-bristol-2019/

2G Tuesdays https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-2g-tuesdays-to-slow-employee-internet-speeds-down-2015-10?international=true&r=US&IR=T

Daniel Miller on Materiality of Technology, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/people/academic-and-teaching-staff/daniel-miller

EPIC, Advancing the Value of Ethnography in Industry, https://www.epicpeople.org/

Stripe Partners, https://www.stripepartners.com/

Crossroads Foundation’s Refugee Simulator, https://www.crossroads.org.hk/global-x-perience/refugee-run/

Simon’s soon-to-be published book:
Hard Wired: How Our Bodies Acquire Knowledge and Why We Should Learn to Trust Our Instincts

Social media and other links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonwroberts/?originalSubdomain=uk

Twitter: @ideasbazaar

In today’s episode we are joined by Geke van Dijk, Social Scientist, Co-founder and Director STBY at REACH Global Design Research and Organizer to discuss GOOD2019, its current theme and panels on the topic of Considerate Transformation, June, 27th London, UK.

Event registration is open

Mentioned in Podcast:

• STBY
• Reach Network

Social media and other links:
http://reach-network.com/events-publications/good-conferences/good-19/

Today we talk to Mike about his transition from researching social movements to assisting technology firms with human insight analysis. We are delighted to learn more about Mike’s professional path which allowed him to stay an ethnographer in the corporate world. He shares how he preserved his interest in the idea of collective crafting working as a design ethnographer in industry; how he managed to stay loyal to his anthropological approaches and core ideas facing the demanding industry where only actionable recommendations are acceptable; stories from his experience when finding new ways to frame social problems helps prevent negative consequences that an industry might otherwise have. Lastly, he gives advice for those transitioning from academia to industry and for industries that want to hire anthropologists.

Mentioned in podcast:

American Anthropological Association (AAA), https://www.americananthro.org/

The School for International Training (SIT), https://www.sit.edu/

Stanford University d.school, https://dschool.stanford.edu/

Maryland Institute College of Art Center for Social Design, https://www.mica.edu/research/center-for-social-design/

Mike’s work:

Mike’s recent book: Youngblood, M. (2016). Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization. South Asian Studies Association.

Read an excerpt from the book here.
Here’s a sampling of Mike’s thoughts on anthropology, design, and technology:
Your Car Horn is an Archetype of Asocial Design

How Anthropological Thinking Can Help Make Business Greener and Just Better

(Video) Design Ethnography: Bridging Anthropology and Design for Social Impact

(Video) Fundamentals of Observational Research (available to EPIC members only)

Social Media:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikeyoungblood

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikeyoungblood

In today’s episode Sarah speaks of her past, current and potential future projects which look into human - technology relation from a more interdisciplinary perspective than human-computer interaction. We ask Sarah about her way to combine academic scholarship and applied work which can make an impact not only in organizations but in the society in a broader sense. She shares her insights on how anthropologists can engage in pushing research and development to a different level and to use design anthropological theories to think of human futures to which technologies have a positive contribution. She also speaks to the concept of trust and its relevance to multidisciplinary collaboration. Lastly, she shares a few words to those considering to join the conference as participants.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Emerging Technologies Lab, Monash University: https://www.monash.edu/mada/research/labs/emerging-technologies-lab

Anthropology + Technology Conference, Bristol 2019: http://www.mundyandanson.co.uk/blog/anthropology-plus-technology-conference-bristol-2019/

MA Visual Anthropology program, University of Manchester: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/10029/ma-visual-anthropology/

Future anthropologies network (FAN): https://www.easaonline.org/networks/fan/

Digital Energies Future project by Australian Research Council: https://energyconsumersaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Digital-energy-futures-a-research-agenda-Yolande-Strengers.pdf

Co-designing future smart urban mobility services - A Human Approach (AHA): https://www.vinnova.se/en/p/co-designing-future-smart-urban-mobility-services---a-human-approach-aha/

Sarah’s work:

https://monash.academia.edu/SarahPink

Social media and other links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-pink-aa9b14ba/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pinkydigital?lang=en

This conference is a satellite event of the well-known annual international symposium “Why The World Needs Anthropologists”, organized by EASA-Applied Anthropology Network. Having similar structure and values to the main event, this conference aims to bring together applied anthropologists and professionals in the field of mental health, opening an interdisciplinary dialogue and being a cornerstone for a future successful collaboration. The applicability of applied anthropology is still widely unknown to the Romanian public, therefore the organizers are very happy to host this event in Bucharest, on the 1st of June. The program includes four lectures given by anthropologists, psychologists and psychiatrists and a short panel discussion starting from the question: How can we work together in order to create a patient-oriented mental health system?

Mentioned in Podcast:

Why the World Needs Anthropologists: https://www.applied-anthropology.com/

Why Romania Needs Anthropologists (in Romanian) http://www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/cd-and-dvd/why-romania-needs-anthropologists-on-mental-health-en.html

Social media and other links:

Why Romania needs Anthropologists (in English) https://www.facebook.com/events/429378017855572/

Contact the organizer (for international participants): anna.berza@asociatiaiau.ro

In today’s episode we talk to Jeff about his experience going through an applied anthropology program coming from an industrial design background; his graduate thesis on observing design and research practices; hybridity of design & anthropology practices and how he sees it impacting theory and practice; using design as a research tool – prototyping and co-design as forms of research; positionality; the tensions between design and anthropology particularly around the concept of intervention; lastly he shares his advice for others transitioning into the applied anthropology space.

Mentioned in Podcast:

M.A. Applied Anthropology program, San Jose State
Dr. Melissa Cefkin, Centre for Automotive Research Nissan
Ethnobreakfast, a Bay Area professional group that hosts monthly breakfasts to discuss issues pertinent to ethnographers in industry
Ethnoborrel, networking group in The Netherlands for professional ethnographers
Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Economic Anthropology
Fair Money, research collective
Anthrodesign listserv

Jeff’s work:

Doing Good is Hard: Ethics, Activism, and Social Impact Design as Seen from the Grassroots Perspective
Design Portfolio

Social media and other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreygreger/

https://twitter.com/jeff_greger

In today’s episode Julien shares some considerations on what makes AI good or bad; reflections on the ethics and drive for purpose of the humans that build technology; his experience working alongside anthropologists and sociologists as part of Element AI’s team of AI for Good; the value of diversity in teams and how to prevent replicating bias with AI; advice to anthropologists considering to transition to industry ; some key points of the keynote he will give at the Anthropology + Technology Conference 2019 happening on Oct 3rd in Bristol, UK under the theme of Championing socially responsible AI.

Mentioned in Podcast:

DeepMind Technologies
ElementAI
AI for Good
Kentaro Toyama
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology, Kentaro Toyama

UN Sustainable Development Goals

2019 AI Talent report - issued by element AI

Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?, Kate Conger, Cade Metz, NY Times, Oct 7 2018
Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty

Davos 2019: Historian Rutger Bregman berates billionaires at World Economic Forum over tax avoidance

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, Rutger Bregman

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2019

Julien’s work:

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=6fkVVz4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Social media and other links:

Email: julien AT elementai.com

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliencornebise

Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/JCornebise

In today’s episode we talk to Fumiko about how a natural disaster in Japan was her catalyst for a career transition from a researcher in the technology space to a facilitator of urban innovation with her own company Re-public; her involvement with the Fukuoka innovation studio; the type of relationships people build with cities, citizenship, identity and craftsmanship.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Don Norman

2011 earthquake in Japan

The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, James Holston

The Craftsman, Richard Sennett

Fumiko’s work:

https://re-public.jp/

http://new-normal.life/ (Translation available)

Social media and other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fumikoichikawa/

https://www.instagram.com/furbiko/

https://www.epicpeople.org/article_author/fumiko-ichikawa/

In today’s episode we are joined by Dr. Stephanie Herold, Founder - Pockets of Culture and Organizer of the Field School in Business Anthropology happening in Tobago, June 2nd-9th 2019, on its current speakers and themes around design, digital, research, creativity and intercultural sensitivity and how it all links to business anthropology.

Social media and other links:

https://www.pocketsofculture.com/fieldwork-school-2019

Business Anthropology Field School – Island of Tobabgo 2-9 June, 2019

In today’s episode we are joined by Dawn Walter, Anthropologist and Organizer to discuss the Anthropology + Technology Conference 2019, its current theme and panels on the topic of Championing Socially-Responsible AI.

Anthropology + Technology Conference 2019: Championing Socially Responsible AI, October, 3RD Bristol, UK - Registration opens in April.

Mentioned in Podcast:
doteveryone

Why The World Needs Anthropologists

Dawn’s opinion piece on why social scientists are needed in AI

Social media and other links:

www.anthtechconf.co.uk

www.mundyandanson.co.uk

In today’s episode we talk to Laith about his career and education start in anthropology and his transition from academic to applied research; focusing on the quick wins to build social capital and value to accelerate integration in a business ecosystem; adapting academic ethnographic methods to quick paced applied environment; how to mitigate reflexivity with politics; meaningful work and its connection to impact and curiosity to learn; ethics, social engineering and the value of gut checks; ethics and asymmetries of power. Lastly, he shares his thoughts on positive relationships between academia and business, gives advice to academics moving to industry and industry considering to employ social scientists.

Mentioned in Podcast:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
AnswerLab

• UXPA Code of Professional Conduct
• Dark Patterns
• Ethical OS

Laith’s work:

Getting started in User Experience and Design Research
Careers in UX: How different organizations approach user experience design

Social media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laith-ulaby/

In this episode we talk to Manuka Henare about culture, anthropology and his work within New Zealand working with the indigenous Maori people and their culture as well as his work within the University of Auckland teaching business people to become more aware of the social and cultural structures around them. We talk about technology and how culture should be considered in the design process and also why this should be the case in business practices as well.

Manuka Henare’s work:

Henare, M., & Naylor, L. (2018). Kaneke: A Johnson & Johnson Aotearoa Maori Responsiveness Strategy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. (pp. 2).

Henare, M., Lythberg, B., Nicholson, A., Horan, J., Longmuir, K., & Peni, T. (2017). Janssen ethnic responsiveness — Understanding cultural drivers that impact on health disparities for Māori in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Mira Szászy Research Centre, University of Auckland Business School.

Hēnare M, Lythberg, B., Nicholson, A., & Woods, C. (2017). Te Ohu Umanga Māori: Temporality and intent in the Māori entrepreneurial team. In Ben-Hafaïedh C, T. Cooney (Eds.) Research handbook on entrepreneurial teams: Theory and practice (pp. 208-230). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Social media or other links:

https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/m-henare

In today’s episode, we talk to Greg about chatbots, how they learn right from wrong; how to deal with context and social identity when building them and how to approach bias and training of chat data. We also cover text-based interactions and how to read them, the meaning of pauses in a conversation, and anonymity and politeness on social media. Lastly, he shares how his expertise as a linguist fits into a multidisciplinary team.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Deborah Tannen, Conversational Style, Analyzing talk among Friends
• William Labov
• Francesca Rossi AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research (AI for Good 2018)
• World summit AI conference, Amsterdam
• Jefferson (1974) - Notes on a possible metric which provides for a 'standard maximum' silence of approximately one second in conversation
• Pomerantz (1984) - Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: Some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes
• Labov (1972) - The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores

Greg’s work:

https://www.gabennett.com/publications

Social media and other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gab45/

https://twitter.com/gabennett45

Mentioned in Podcast:

⁃ Belmont Report

⁃ How to lie with statistics, Daryl Hoff

⁃ The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge

⁃ UX India conference

Steve’s work:

Article based on some of Steve's dissertation work:

Fadden, S., Ververs, P. M., & Wickens, C. D. (2001). Pathway HUDs: Are They Viable? Human Factors, 43(2), 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1518/001872001775900841

Marchand, Ashley. (March 7, 2010). 2-Year Colleges Help Learning-Disabled Students Break Into Math and Science, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/article/Community-Colleges-Help/64531

Maimin, Sybil. (December, 2006). Research in Learning Disorders at Landmark College, Education Update Online.
Retrieved from http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2006/Dec/html/col-researchin.html

Industry research on role of color in analytics:

Fadden, Steve & Geyer, Mark. (May 1, 2018). Two Fascinating Things Salesforce Discovered when it Studied Color. FastCompany.com. Retrieved from: https://www.fastcompany.com/90169654/two-fascinating-things-salesforce-discovered-when-it-studied-color

Fadden, Steve. (May 19, 2018). Color Affects Performance — What Salesforce's Latest Design Studies Reveal. Retrieved from: https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2018/05/new-research-color-performance.html

Other interviews with Steve:

CanvasFlip blog post (June 24, 2017). Steve Fadden on his journey of user experience.
A Q&A session to learn from his experiences as a UX practitioner, lecturer and a mentor. Retrieved from: https://blog.prototypr.io/steve-fadden-on-his-journey-of-user-experience-59f45f87d5fc

Abhay Vohra's NetSolutions blog post (October 15, 2018). Designing for the Whole Human: User Research and the Impact of Emerging Technology
Retrieved from: https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/designing-for-the-whole-human-user-research-and-the-impact-of-emerging-technology/

Social media and other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefadden

https://twitter.com/sfadden

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/steve-fadden

https://www.slideshare.net/SteveFadden1

We talk to Jan about the concept of risk in fieldwork, misconceptions about risk, responsibility & a few how-to’s on pre-rationalizing risk before embarking on fieldwork. Lastly, he shares his view on time pressure he sees as a great forcer of prioritization. We talk about how to design the research experience with the purpose of enabling a social environment where strangers solve problems together; how he approaches the topic of access and some of the advantages of locally sourcing informants vs employing recruiting agencies; the link between data collecting, usage and ethics; why a good project should present the teams with ethical challenges ; dealing with bias when evaluating the potential impact of data; positive social engineering and advantages of qualitative research. Lastly, he shares his view on time pressure and why he sees it as a great forcer of prioritization.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Jan Chipchase blog (incl. archives)

The Field Study Handbook

The Little Book of Fixers

Studio D 2019 Masterclasses

Jan’s work:

Studio D Radiodurans

SDR Traveller

The Fixer List

Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers

The Field Study Handbook

The Little Book of Fixers

Social media and other links:

http://janchipchase.com

https://twitter.com/janchip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Chipchase

https://medium.com/@janchip

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janchipchase

Ted Talk 2007 The Anthropology of mobile phones

Mentioned in Podcast:

• CPDP Conferences
• Registration
• Surveillance Capitalism and Regulatory Capture, Caspar Bowden Panel
• Day 1 Schedule (30th January)
• Day 2 Schedule (31st January)
• Day 3 Schedule (1st of February)
  Social media and other links:
  @CPDPconferences
  https://www.youtube.com/user/CPDPConferences

In this episode we talk to Alexis about her experience working in User experience research and design, how her research has helped many companies in the design of technological products. And what her advice for businesses, researchers and designers in creating a technological product.

Alexis’s work:

Narrating health and scarcity: Guyanese healthcare workers, development reformers, and sacrifice as solution from socialist to neoliberal governance
publication dateFeb 1, 2017 publication descriptionSocial Science and Medicine
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28187906)

Observing the Patent System in Social and Political Perspective: A Case Study of Europe
publication dateMar 27, 2014 publication descriptionGlobal Perspectives on Patent Law

Social media or other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-walker-8aa96039/

In today’s episode we talk to Anupam about his experience at the intersection of linguistics and technology; the positive and negative effects of social media usage on language and culture ; how people substitute the absence of visual cues when engaging via text on social media; we talk about politeness and trolling on social media and the differences and similarities between the western and the eastern worlds; the need for macro as well as micro governance on the topic of bullying on social media; the connection between ethical communication and/or product development and consumer trust ; advice to companies considering employing social scientists.

Anupam’s work:

http://www.iimk.ac.in/faculty/facultyprofile.php?pid=anupamdas

Social media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anupam-das-5201179/?originalSubdomain=in

In this episode we talk to Samantha about digital anthropology and what it is like to be an anthropologist working in the area of User Experience Research for tech-based companies. We talk about larger topics like the relationships people form with technology the design. Application of technologies and why it is important or at least an advantage to have a social scientist working in companies.

Samantha’s work:

Rosenthal, Samantha. (2017). The Terminator came for Sarah Connor, and we said nothing.” In Hacker (https://hackernoon.com/the-terminator-came-for-sarah-connor-and-we-said-nothing-797d3a559b99)
Rosenthal, Samantha. (2016). “Life of a Smartphone” in Hacker (https://hackernoon.com/life-of-a-smartphone-7283d66d1e84)

Social media or other links:
https://medium.com/@samantharosenthal

Susan’s work:

Wardell, S. (2018). A Stranger in the Name of Jesus: Exploring cosmopolitan ethics in a Ugandan Christian Care Community. Sites, 15(2).

Wardell, S. & Fitzgerald, R.P. (2018). Psychometrics as moral labour: subject formation at the intersection of neoliberal and spiritual discourse. BioSocieties: 1-23.

Social media or other links:

https://twitter.com/Unlazy_Susan

https://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/staff/otago636914.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-wardell-7257aa34/

Mentioned in podcast/speaker’s work:

Nazima's book, "The Autonomous Life?" published by Manchester University Press
The sitcom project, "Our Autonomous Life?"
An interview with Nazima on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed

Follow speaker:

https://nazimakadir.wordpress.com/about/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazima-kadir-phd-16598144/

Social media or other links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stinelouring/

VBN: http://vbn.aau.dk/da/persons/stine-maria-louring-nielsen(6d6862f9-36c3-4f8f-975b-7db9546ee0ed).html

Focused on evolutionary psychology and behavioural economics, he works to fit ethnographic sensibilities into a start-up environment. Grounded in user-insights, Ari has worked with companies’ design teams to produce products, experiences, services, communications, strategies and brands.

In today’s episode we talk to Ari Nave about his career path and the competitive advantages of using ethnography and/or anthropologists in product design.

We explore the internal politics of corporate culture: ownership of power and control over the product, advocating for user research and adjusting to the corporate world from academia. We touch upon the ethics of user research before exploring the possibility of doing an ethnography of the corporate world itself and how culture change happens, especially in a corporation.

Mentioned in podcast:

Marvin Harris - Cultural Materialism (https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Cultural_Materialism.html?id=8Xc9DMbB5KQC&redir_esc=y)

Speaker’s work:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-partisan-brand-ari-nave-ph-d-/

Follow speaker:

http://www.arinave.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arinave/

In today’s episode we talk to Kerry about the many ways in which technology assists youth (16-21) counselling and about the good and not so good bits of engaging with social technology. We talk about how - through the lens of her research in New Zealand - youth use social media to engage with the topic of suicide; about grief and loss expressed on social media and about the role elders and/or family members play in this space. We also talk about ethics and responsibility of technology companies building products in this space.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Working with Dr Susanna Trnka on The Mirror Project. Susanna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Her research has focused on understanding young people’s well-being and digital technology.

She speaks of her work on episode 8 of The Human Show Podcast: https://worldpodcasts.com/susanna-helen-trnka-the-many-ways-in-which-people-make-medical-technologies-work-for-them-how-to-approach-building-multifaceted-medical-apps-whats-next-for-a-student-of-anthropology-the/

Grieving in the Internet Age:
http://www.psychology.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/Falconer1.pdf

Kerry’s (current) research work:

The Mirror Project: https://www.themirrorproject.co.nz/

The aim of The Mirror Project is to find out more the psychological challenges young people face in New Zealand today, the impact these have on their wellbeing, how they use their own strengths and resources to deal with these and how support services can be designed to better to meet their needs.

• Consumer’s views of antidepressants
Together with John Read and Claire Cartwright, Kerry is working on research aimed at understanding the rapid increase in antidepressant use in New Zealand, from the perspective of those who have been prescribed the medication. The survey can be found at www.viewsonantidepressants.co.nz

Social media or other links:

https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/people/kl-gibson

He is currently under contract with Manchester University Press to write a ‘detourned’ cultural history of the relationship between Manchester, the birthplace of industrial capitalism, and ‘psychogeography’, the revolutionary, utopian spatial practices developed by the Situationist International. He has also been working with digital since 2006 and he is skilled with a range of front- and back end technologies including html, CSS, JavaScript, PHP (WordPress is a speciality) and Python/Django. At the moment he is interested in exploring cities and culture using mapping technologies like leaflet.js.

In today's episode we talk to Duncan about the definition and origin of the IoT (Internet of Things) concept, about Alexa and Amazon Echo and about what makes it difficult for people to understand how it operates data. We talk about security and trust around IoT in public urban spaces through an urban space project in East London.

Duncan and the team he was a part of explored what happens to a conversational object (a 3D printed garden gnome) when you give it agency and how to make transparent to people the interconnectedness and communication between IoT objects. Lastly we talk about IoT governance and trust. Last week we released part 1 of this interview where we talked to Duncan about his work with the Survey of London, the White Chapel Initiative, a technological experiment in the creation and dissemination of urban history.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Bruce Sterling - IoT definition and traceable items

Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects

Donna J Haraway, The Cyborg Manifesto:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the....pdf

Duncan’s work:

http://walled-city.net/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/dr-duncan-hay

Social media or other links:

https://twitter.com/walled_city?lang=en

We have split our conversation with Duncan into 2 separate episodes. In today’s episode we talk to Duncan about his work with the Survey of London, the White Chapel Initiative, a technological experiment in the creation and dissemination of urban history. We talk about how digital technology can be used to increase access to historical data and the tensions and barriers between official and unofficial history. We cover inclusivity, diversity, citizenship and legitimacy of what constitutes data and what is the role of technology. Next week we will be releasing part 2 of this conversation which will be focused on Duncan’s work in the space of IoT (Internet of Things).

Mentioned in Podcast:

 Ian Sinclair - on place and history

 Walter Benjamin on the political use of the past inside the present	https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/benjamin/

The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, London

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/

• Survey of London
  https://surveyoflondon.org

Eric Shorter, documented his childhood in White Chapel

Shahed Selim on the British Mosque

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/13/the-british-mosque-architectural-social-history-shahed-saleem-review

Duncan’s work:

http://walled-city.net/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/dr-duncan-hay

In today’s episode we talk to Susan about her experience in the space of mental health research and social media. We cover topics such as the fluid relationship people build with technology and about sociality, anonymity and power dynamics when engaging on Facebook. We talk about self care and about using social technology to access communities of care. We cover treating social media as a place/a field site where people take action rather than an artefact when conducting ethnographic research; ethics, intervention and anthropology; the link between precarity and mental health in academia.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Ruth Fitzgerald’s work with reproductive technologies
  Fitzgerald, R.P., Wardell, S., & Legge, M. (2017). Fetal Genetic Difference and a Cosmopolitan Vernacular of the Right to Choose. Women’s Studies International Forum. Advance online publication: doi: 10.1016/j.wsif.2017.04.001

• M Bakhtin’s work on chronotope
  Bakhtin, M. (1981). “Form of Time and Chronotope in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Austin: UTP. Pp84-258.

• Nikolas Rose work on responsibilisation
  Rose, N. (1999). Powers of Freedom, Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge University Press.

Social media or other links:

https://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/staff/otago636914.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-wardell-7257aa34/

Anna believes that creating meaningful, relevant, desirable and sustainable products, services and organizational changes happen only by understanding people’s motivations and aspirations and utilizing this knowledge to solve challenges together with the people we serve.

Anna returned to Norway in 2010 where she has her own consultancy, teaches at the Oslo Metropolitan University and until recently was the Managing Director of Design without Borders (she still maintains her board status for DwB). She is also a Specialist in the Design Consultancy: Halogen situated in Oslo, Norway.

We talk to Anna about her career path from anthropology to psychology to design; about transdisciplinarity, what each of these disciplines can give each other and the potential they have to create together; how she transitioned to design, reclaimed the title of anthropologist.

We talk about her experience entering the corporate sector with Boeing as a psychologist and exiting as a design anthropologist; what businesses appreciate in anthropology and why it’s important to have a social scientist on board.

Lastly, she shares 3 techniques she teaches designers to practice empathy and active listening in order to break their own assumptions. These techniques come from different disciplines including psychology and the role of the clinician but somewhere along the way she was introduced to Colombo as a way to describe the “Help me understand…” technique.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Oslo Metropolitan University: Department of Product Design
• Design without Borders
• Avoiding the apocalypse: A design anthropological perspective on reflected change

Anna’s work:

• Cocreation: A new way of doing business in an age of uncertainty
• Cocreation and the Design Mindset
• Ethnography in Software Development in Cost-Justifying Usability: An Update for the Internet Age, 2nd edition
• Trappevask og Andre Historier (Stair washing and other stories)
• Continuity and Change: Aspects of Norwegian Society

Social media and other links:

https://www.annakirah.com/services/

https://www.hioa.no/eng/employee/Anna%20Kirah

http://www.technoport.no/content/574/Anna-Kirah

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-kirah-06615a/

https://twitter.com/annakirah

He is the co-founder of Design Philadelphia; the country’s largest design week and he is one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People…Inspiring Leaders [who] are Shaping the Future of Business in Creative Ways.” He has published over twenty articles on the poetics and politics of design, including for Fast Company and the Huffington Post, and he is co-author, with Meredith Davis, of Visual Communication Design. He is currently completing a book manuscript for Grand Central Publishing on scale, complex systems, and the unruliness of everyday experiences.

In today’s episode we talk to Jamer about his career path from anthropology to design; the different perspectives on the definition and scope of an intervention; the ways in which designers & social scientists view the practice of ethnography, participation and co-creation. We talk about places where design and social science blend together, what they can bring to each other as well as what they can create together; tips on how to successfully form and operate multidisciplinary teams. Lastly, we cover the role of the university space in supporting the practice of anthropology outside of academia.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Why the World Needs Anthropologists – Designing the Future
• ReD Associates, strategy consulting company based on the human sciences
• Human-Centered Design
• Parsons, Transdisciplinary Design (MFA)
• The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
• Epic, advancing the Value of Ethnography in Business
• Maurice E F Bloch, How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy
• Cumulus Association, International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media
• POLIMI DESIS Lab, design for Social Innovation and Sustainability

Jamer’s work:

Visual Communication Design, An Introduction to Design Concepts in Everyday Experience (co-authored with Meredith Davis)
MoMA, Design and Violence book
Design and Violence exhibition
Design Anthropology, Alison Clarke (editor)

Social media or other links:

http://www.jamerhunt.com/

https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/jamer-hunt/

https://twitter.com/jamerhunt

Steph has led digital and customer experience strategy for a wide range of NZ clients; ANZ, Tourism New Zealand, Auckland Council, Ministry of Social Development, TVNZ, Spark and Auckland Airport amongst others. She has lead projects that have won awards for their design, technology and business outcomes including the Best Awards, SXSW, FWA and Axis.

In this episode she will be talking to us about her experience working within the tech/business sector and why she values the view of social sciences in researching these areas. We talk about the insight a social scientist can bring into a research project and also Steph’s own insight into leading research based projects.

Follow Steph’s work at:

https://medium.com/@stephcreasy/on-becoming-design-led-celebrating-assumption-busting-democratising-decisions-and-embracing-beda4602918b

https://medium.com/@stephcreasy/the-digital-evolution-is-about-the-people-5dcb9948a119

http://www.dan.co.nz/
http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/uxnewzealand-2013/presentation/ux-strategy-fast-moving-organisations/

Social media or other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-creasy-b389255/

She is interested in how algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work practices. Currently, she studies the construction, institutionalization, and reception of predictive algorithms in the US criminal justice system.

In today’s episode we talk to Angèle about her work on technology and criminal justice in the US and France. We cover the definitions and purpose of risk assessment algorithms as well as how prosecutors and judges use them in their daily work. We talk about fairness and agency in sentencing, the COMPAS case, and the origins of the anxiety and moral panic around the use of AI algorithms.

Lastly we cover questions relating to the governance of risk assessment tools as well as the type of conversation needed between the academic field and the criminal justice sector when it comes to technology.

Mentioned in podcast:

• Machine bias (ProPublica article on the COMPAS recidivism algorithm system)
• Politics of Algorithms, Stanford class
• Algorithms in Practice (Angèle Christin)
• The Mistrials of Algorithmic Sentencing (Angèle Christin)
• Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing (Sarah Brayne)

Angèle’s work:
Emergency Hearings: An Inquiry on Judiciary Practice, La Découverte, 2008
Contemporary Sociology in the United States, with E. Ollion, La Découverte, 2012

Social media or other links:

http://www.angelechristin.com

https://twitter.com/AngeleChristin

In today’s episode we talk to Matt about access, inclusion and exclusion in technology design through the lens of his work in this space. We cover what it is and how to start building inclusive design; how to scale inclusivity at a corporate level; the connection between inclusion, ethics and trust; the difference between inclusion and compliance. We also talk about how he uses research to support his work. Lastly, we cover privilege and allyship in the technology space.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG)

• AI principles, ethics and Google

• ADOBE Research

• The Americans with Disabilities Act

• Safiya Umoja Noble: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

• Emily Chang: Brotopia, Breaking up the boy’s club of Silicon Valley

• Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Social media or other links:

https://theblog.adobe.com/author/matt-may/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maymatt/

https://twitter.com/mattmay

We cover what relationships people build in and around games and how it (often) outstrips the designers’ expectations of them; his experience with Linden Lab and how Second Life was designed not as a game but as a platform for game making; player governance as a legitimate component of an online space; the connection between trust, ethics, and governance and why it’s necessary for game companies to participate in digital, public spaces.

We talk about identity and building inclusive avatars and the asymmetry between players and game makers. Lastly we talk about chance, patterns and open ended-ness in games.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life (2009, Cornell University Press)
  -Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (2014, Princeton University Press)
• Emile Durkheim
  -The Invention of Tradition (2014, Cambridge University Press)
• CCP Games
• My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (1999, Henry Holt and Co., Inc. New York, NY, USA) and free download here
• Center for 21st Century Studies
• Serious_Play, Twitch.tv channel
• Coin-Operated Americans, Rebooting boyhood at the video game arcade ( 2015, Minnesota University Press)
• An exploratory model of play

Thomas’s work:

Malaby, T. M. (2012). Digital Gaming, Game Design, and its Precursors. Digital Anthropology, 288-305. Oxford: Berg.
Malaby, T. M. (2011). These Great Urbanist Games: New Babylon and Second Life (reprint). World Making: Media, Art, and the Politics of the Global. Rutgers University Press.
Malaby, T. M. (2009, January (1st Quarter/Winter)). Anthropology and Play: The Contours of Playful Experience. New Literary History, 40(1), 205-218.
Malaby, T. M. (2007). Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games. Games & Culture, 2(2), 95-113.
Malaby, T. M. (2003). Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City. University of Illinois Press.

Social media or other links:

https://thomasmalaby.com

https://uwm.edu/anthropology/people/malaby-thomas-m/

She has worked with multidisciplinary teams bringing UX driven product development to their Engineering processes. She helped build low cost smartphones, developed new informational services that users can enjoy with or without data.

In her role with Uber, she manages UX Research for all mega-regions- Latin America, Europe and Middle East, India and Asia Pacific. Amongst her current topics of interest are governance, policy and how AI can reduce frictions of language and decision making in order to make smartphones and internet-based services more intelligent and assistive for users.

In today’s episode we talk to Sas about her past research work with Google and (currently) Uber. We cover topics such as what she values in a researcher, methods used in technology research and stories of impact; ethics, governance, policy and her thoughts on the relationship between government and industry; what it’s like to work with a social scientist and her advice on transitioning from academia to industry. Lastly, she shares her experience working as a woman in the technology sector.

Mentioned in podcast:

Uber Movement https://movement.uber.com/?lang=en-US

Uber app revamp https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/uber-driver-app-revamp/557117/

Social media or other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saswatisahamitra/

She has 2 PhDs from Stanford University, one in Anthropology with the Dissertation "Engineering Play: Children's Software and the Productions of Everyday Life" and one in Education with the Dissertation "Interactive Media for Play: Kids, Computer Games, and the Productions of Everyday Life”. She is currently the Director of the Connected Learning Lab, and a Professor in Residence at University of California, Irvine's Department of Anthropology, Department of Education, Department of Informatics, and School of Education.

She is also the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning and the CEO of Connected Camps, a non-profit organization that provides online learning programs in coding and the digital arts. Her specialities include: ethnographic fieldwork, educational technology, youth Internet culture

We talk to Mimi about her unconventional path as an anthropologist interested in technology since the late 90s and about bridging boundaries between academic and applied fields. We talk about the social and political identity of commercial companies and the relationship between metrics and social and commercial benefit. We cover the definition and time shapes of internet culture and its significance to youth audiences.

We talk about caretakers of youth and the internet; media literacy, access and trust, Google as a learning technology as well as ethics and privacy on social media platforms. Lastly, we talk about the value of using applied social scientists when studying digital cultures.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Affinity Online, How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning

From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes, Equity by Design in Learning Technologies

Connected Camps

Connected Learning Summit 2018

Mimi’s work:

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s Software

Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World

Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

Social media or other links:

https://twitter.com/mizuko

http://www.itofisher.com/mito

http://blog.connectedcamps.com

http://clalliance.org

http://connectedlearning.uci.edu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mizuko-ito-17b2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuko_It

In today’s episode we talk to Mrudula about her academic experience in the early days of AI as well as her extensive research experience in the technology space in India. We explore the process and challenges of doing local research in India for international companies. We cover what she values in a researcher and what are the benefits of hiring a social scientist. Lastly, we talk about the power of multidisciplinary teams and how to rapidly integrate a social scientist.

In today’s episode we talk to Ann about her definition of user experience and user research; her experience as the first researcher working on Google Music and her creative approaches to dealing with time constraints; we cover the topic of stakeholders, why they are important and how to get them on board a research project; we cover thinking about community and cross-culturalism when researching social groups; we cover how she deals with bias and her preferred methods of research. Lastly she gives advice on how to make a (smooth) transition from academia to the technology industry.

Mentioned in podcast:

Design User Research Google Group

Ann’s work:

How to Use Video to Tell Impactful Stories
Influencers and Barriers to Technology
If you build it, they will come ... if they can: pitfalls of releasing the same product globally
The Effects of Two Competing Predictors: Gratifications and Personality on Cellular and Household Telephone Use

Social media or other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annhsieh/

In today’s episode we talk to Henrique about his interests and projects in the space of data transparency and civic activism in Brazil. We cover the definition of transparency, governance and the “right” data ; legal governance in Brazil and the case for radical democratisation through open data and technology.

We cover his project in the city of Ubatuba where he helped build a prototype that aimed to empower social groups to access information that would enable them to contribute to the political debate in a conflict over a territory. We talk about the academic, public and private sectors, their position on open data and relationship to each other.

Lastly we talk about his future plans in the technology space.

Mentioned in podcast:

• Open Science Research Project Ubatuba city
  short documentary on the project (english subtitles)
  project website (in Portuguese only)
• OCSDNet – Open and Collaborative Science in Development
• LAVITS, Latin America Research Network on surveillance, technology and society studies
• CitizensLab, a participatory European network of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts. Research project Henrique conducted in Madrid, Spain (in Portuguese only)
• Crypto annual event happening in Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights (Marco Civil) (2014)
• English version of the approved law here
• Understanding Brazil’s Internet Bill of Rights (2015, ITS)
• The Commons Lab, Madrid
• Gilbert Simondon

Henrique’s work:

https://pimentalab.milharal.org/txt/

Social media or other links:

https://pimentalab.milharal.org
‪@henrique_parra‬

Mentioned in Podcast:

The Partnership of the Future: Microsoft’s CEO explores how humans and A.I. can work together to solve society’s greatest challenges:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/06/microsoft_ceo_satya_nadella_humans_and_a_i_can_work_together_to_solve_society.html

The Future Computed, AI and it’s role in society
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/01/17/future-computed-artificial-intelligence-role-society/

FATE Research Group Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/fate/

Eric Horvitz, who leads AETHER is quoted talking about it here: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-cutting-off-sales-ai-ethics-top-researcher-eric-horvitz-says/-

Partnership on AI:
https://www.partnershiponai.org

AINow Institute:
https://ainowinstitute.org/

Data & Society:
https://datasociety.net/

Several speakers in the excellent MSR podcast series who discuss ethics and AI

Dr. Eric Horvitz https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/ai-and-our-future-with-machines-eric-horvitz/

Dr. Ece Kamar
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/life-at-intersection-of-ai-society-ece-kamar/

Dr. Kate Crawford
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/keeping-an-eye-on-ai-with-dr-kate-crawford/

Dr. Rich Caruana
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/making-intelligence-intelligible-dr-rich-caruana/

Social media or other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelyn-krones-56302b1/

He is currently a Lead Product Designer in a digital news media company in Australia. His motivation and goal is to help solve complex problems and transform products, services, organisations and the world by applying a holistic, systems-thinking approach to service design, research and strategy.

In today’s episode we talk to Scott about what it’s like to work as an anthropologist in the media sector. We talk about the ethics, implications and effects of measuring engagement metrics in media and how to approach the design of more “human” metrics like value and impact.

We cover the definition of “fake news” and relation to trust and reputation. He speaks to using co-design as a means to keep designers and product managers “honest” to the consumer impact throughout the development process.

Lastly we talk about the differences and synergies between business and academic ethnography and what makes it fun for him to do both.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Scott’s (long) Medium post “Kicking Facebook - why and how we need to break the habit” https://medium.com/@scott.matter/kicking-facebook-29e7b6ec0e44

Indi Young’s website - for great things on problem space exploration: https://indiyoung.com/

Should you design for addiction or loyalty - Michelle Manafy, editorial director for Digital Content Next - http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/04/should-you-design-for-addiction-or-for-loyalty/

Follow him at:

https://medium.com/@scott.matter

https://twitter.com/Scott_Matter

He also was a student in Cornell University’s Cultural Anthropology PhD program before leaving to work in applied anthropology. In the applied sector Matt has worked with companies such as Autodesk, Boeing/Jeppesen, Honeywell, Mozilla, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Securian. He is currently the lead user researcher and UX strategist at Measures for Justice, a non-profit organization working to facilitate court reform in the United States via data transparency.

In this episode Matt talks to us about his journey from a web designer at Kodak to design anthropologist in the technology space. We talk about the ethical implications of mistaking chatbots for humans and why the “do no evil” mantra is not enough when developing technology. We also talk about the cooperative yet antagonistic relationship between a company and its customers and how anthropologists can assist.

Finally, Matt gives 3 key pieces of advice to those interested in transitioning from academia to the applied sector and to those companies interested in hiring anthropologists.

Mentioned in Podcast:

Hortense Powdermaker, Stranger and Friend
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Friend-Anthropologist-Hortense-Powdermaker/dp/0393004104
Matt’s work:
“Manufacturing and Encountering “Human” in the Age of Digital Reproduction.”

In Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology
https://www.amazon.com/Human-No-More-Subjectivities-Anthropology-ebook/dp/B01DTLX92M

“What college students do and don’t know about free open source software” - Libre Planet Talk (with Gina Likens of Red Hat) -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVNXGufghR8-

Follow him at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbernius/

https://twitter.com/mattBernius

We talk to Jessica about what it’s like to bootstrap your own applied research career and her past and current work with research in VR and the gaming sector. She shares how she builds and executes a research project, what is - for her - the perfect team composition and the value of a social scientist within it. Lastly, she offers advice for people starting out working with industry and/or transitioning from academia to industry.

Mentioned in Podcast:

https://extendedmind.io/social-vr/

Jessica’s work:

https://extendedmind.io/

2018 Survey of 600 VR users https://extendedmind.io/blog/2018/4/4/virtual-harassment-the-social-experience-of-600-regular-virtual-reality-vrusers

She is a 2017 winner of Oculus Launch Pad and you can download her debiasing training app with Clorama Dorvilias here:
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1552250918219351/
She has a masters in behavioral science from UC San Diego and her research has been featured in FastCo, CNet, and the The Sunday Times of London.

Social media or other links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/theextendedmind
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaoutlaw/

In this episode we talk to Sibel Kusimba about her work in Kenya around mobile money. Talking about how it effects people’s relationships to each other, for example how the practice of visiting parents can be put off through the payment of money using these mobile phone apps, (creating new methods of maintaining a good relationship without physically visiting someone).

We also talk about how the changing properties of money from something physical to virtual has changed our interaction and perception of it as well as why people still use physical money today. We also touch on the workings of businesses like M-Pesa, ethics, politics, innovation in technology and much more.

Sibel’s work:

https://sibelkusimba.com/

List of academic works: https://sibelkusimba.com/
Kusimba, S. B. (2018) “It is Easy for Women to Ask: Gender and Digital Finance in Kenya.” in Economic Anthropology 5 (2). Special Issue Theme: Finance.

Kusimba, S. B. (2018) “Money, Mobile Money, and Ritual in Western Kenya: The Contingency Fund and the Thirteenth Cow.” in African Studies Review 61 (2). July.

Kusimba, S. B. (2015) “Family Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya. In Information Technology in International Development 11(3):1-21. Open access at:
http://www.itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1420

He is the author of a monograph 'Social Media in South India' (UCL Press) and co-author of a comparative book 'How the World Changed Social Media' (UCL Press). He has publications in peer reviewed journals and has presented in several international conferences. He has co-taught a MOOC course on the 'Anthropology of Social Media' on Futurelearn (currently on its seventh run) and has coordinated the MOOC course in Hindi and Tamil with UCL eXtend.

In today’s episode we talk to Shriram about Social Media (esp. Facebook) and Culture in India through the lens of his research as part of the Why We Post Project. We talk about how different social classes and/or genders in India access and form sociality on Facebook. We also cover children, guilt and mothering via WhatsApp. We talk data and ethics on social media and how the project can be accessed by technology and social media developers like Facebook. Lastly we cover his perspective on the applied anthropological sector in India.

Mentioned in podcast:

• Why We Post Project http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post

Shriram’s work:

Social Media in South India (UCL Press)

How the World Changed Social Media' (UCL Press)

Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project

Social media or other links:

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (aka. IIIT-Delhi or IIIT-D)

Twitter: @venkatshriram

Shiram Venkatraman - LinkedIn

He also formed and sold two product design companies and co-founded a non-profit organisation dedicated to young entrepreneurship. He has been a guest speaker at numerous industry events speaking on design and design thinking, taught design to designers and non-designers at a higher education level, and has been a jury member at several design schools and competitions.

In today’s episode we talk to José about insight and good design and about how to find and scale an insight across organisational silos. We also cover the origin of his interest in social science and his experience working with applied anthropologists. Lastly we talk about the value of the academic and applied anthropology fields to business design and he offers advice on how to get started connecting them.

Mentioned in podcast:

• Phillips Lighting becomes Signify
  https://www.signify.com/en-us/about/news/press-releases/2018/20180516-philips-lighting-is-now-signify
• Why the World needs Anthropologists event, Jose’s session https://www.applied-anthropology.com/session/for-human-centric-design/

José’s work:

https://www.behance.net/JoseManueldosSantos

Social media or other links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josemanueldossantos/

In today’s episode we talk to Grant about interface technology, augmented reality, smart toilets and robots in Japan. We talk about technology as relationships that people have with the outer world. We talk about how the mutual interactivity between people technology and environment inherent in mainstream Japanese culture shapes technology design. We talk about respectful service, ethics, class and power dynamics between engineers, technology and consumers. We talk about what kind of non slave relationships can emerge between humans and robots and how people don’t value robots for the things they think they value them. Lastly we talk about the Japanese tech community in relationship to the world and how to look at studying anthropology as a means to manifest whatever fuels one’s interest in the world.

Mentioned in Podcast:

• Hiroshi Ishiguro https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/humanoids/hiroshi-ishiguro-the-man-who-made-a-copy-of-himself

• Steve Mann, world’s first cyborg.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400388/cyborg-seeks-community/

• The gaze of the robot, theatre play
  https://thetheatretimes.com/the-gaze-of-the-robot/

Social media or other links:

https://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacs/about/staff/grant-otsuki
http://www.gjotsuki.net

In today’s episode we talk to Kathy about chatbots, her work with Einstein ( Salesforce’s AI), ethics and bias. We cover definitions of AI, types of intelligence for bots, and how it compares to humans frames of learning. We cover enculturation, training data for chatbots, and the need for diversity and inclusion. We talk about fairness and ethics and what methodologies can be used to build a neutral system that is based on unbiased data. We also talk about governance, bias, and ethics and what companies can do to start reducing bias and take an ethical approach to product building. Lastly we cover how a social scientist can approach this field.

Mentioned in podcast:

• Einstein AI https://www.salesforce.com/eu/products/einstein/overview/
  -“How babies learn and how robot’s can’t compete” article: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/03/how-babies-learn-and-why-robots-cant-compete
• Bias in the COMPAS System https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607955/inspecting-algorithms-for-bias/

Kathy’s work:
-Coauthor of Understanding Your Users, Second Edition: A Practical Guide to User Research Methods (Interactive Technologies) 2nd Edition https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Your-Users-Second-Technologies/dp/0128002328/ref=dp_ob_title_bk?dpID=51mZmVSfc6L&preST=SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40&dpSrc=detail

• How build ethics into AI Part 1 (https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/how-to-build-ethics-into-ai-part-i-bf35494cce9) and Part 2 (https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/how-to-build-ethics-into-ai-part-ii-a563f3372447)
• How to meet user expectations for AI (https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/how-to-meet-user-expectations-for-artificial-intelligence-a51d3c82af6)

Social media or other links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathykbaxter/
https://medium.com/@kathykbaxter
Twitter: @baxterkb

In today’s episode we talk to Andy about what is an insight and the methods and practices he employs to get it to fuel good design. We talk about his first research experience with users failing to execute a task he designed and how that lead to a moment of enlightenment. We cover what he values in a researcher and the role of a researcher to keep design authentic to the insight. He shares how and why the iPhone 10 represents, for him, a case of advancement in design as it manages to put & keep the user in a state of flow.

Mentioned in Podcast:
BCG Digital Ventures https://www.bcgdv.com/

Mule Design https://muledesign.com/

“How Designers Destroyed the World” - Webstock talk by Mike Montero https://vimeo.com/68470326

Follow him at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/goodmanandy/

In this episode we talk to Jamie about how to make human insight actionable in the business world of virtual reality and gaming, how to understand and work with business language as well as host interesting conversations. We will talk about the connection between objects and sociality in VR as well as the value of user hacking in design and the importance of ethics in developing games and hosting social interaction. Lastly we will be talking about what its like to work in business as a classically trained anthropologist.

Social media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamsherman/

He is devoted to developing people-centred and environmentally responsible services, products and solutions. Amongst his fields of interest are applied and public anthropology, people-centred development, organisational cultures, human-technology interaction, sustainable lifestyles, and nature conservation, altruism and volunteering.

In today’s episode we talk to Dan about his work in the applied anthropology sector both as one of its research members as well as one of the supporters of the community as (amongst others) the founder of Why the World Needs Anthropologists event. We talk about his research in the sustainable mobility space and smart buildings.

We put our attention to the barriers and opportunities of anthropologists accessing the business world and the tension between applied and academic approaches to doing ethnography. We discuss in depth the various projects, conferences and events he is involved in that bridge and promote the value of applied anthropology such as the PEOPLE and MOBISTYLE Projects, Ethnography 2.0 symposium and the 2018 edition of Why the World Needs Anthropologists.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Why the World Needs Anthropologists - 2018 edition, titled Designing the Future, focused on Design will happen in Lisbon, Portugal (26-27th October 2018).
Registrations open 1st June 2018 here: https://www.applied-anthropology.com/

PEOPLE Project - http://people-project.net
Telematics Conference - http://www.telematics-conference.com

Ladner, S. (2014). Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in The Private Sector. Leftcoast Press: Thousand Oaks, California. ttp://www.practicalethnography.com/
Ethnography 2.0 (FB event, Slovenian only) https://www.facebook.com/events/184039152248956/

Dan’s (most current) work:

Applied Anthropology in Europe: Historical Obstacles, Current Situation, Future Challenges (our article, open access, published in Anthropology in Action, provides an overview of applied anthropology in Europe ): https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aia/23/2/aia230208.xml

TripleA-reno (a new EU Horizon 2020 project, starting in May 2018, which will also include anthropological approaches to support people-friendly renovation of buildings): https://www.cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/213564_en.html

Social media or other links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dan.podjed
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danpodjed/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan_Podjed
Twitter: @dandanko
ZRC SAZU: https://isn2.zrc-sazu.si/en/sodelavci/dan-podjed-en#v
WWNA: https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/dan-podjed/

Stephen C. Rea is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on how digital and mobile technologies intersect with issues of community, labour, and health. He has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork on digital gaming culture in South Korea, and has published on the social and technical infrastructures involved in mobile money for development.

Taylor C. Nelms is an anthropologist and ethnographer of money, technology, bureaucracy, and everyday economic and political life. He has done extensive work in Latin America and the United States on the intersections of money and technology and how they shape the lives and livelihoods of the people who use them.

Stephen and Taylor’s work:
Maurer, Bill, Taylor C. Nelms, and Stephen C. Rea. (2013). “‘Bridges to cash': channeling agency in mobile money.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (1): 52-74.
Rea, Stephen C. and Taylor C. Nelms (2017). “Mobile Money: The First Decade.” Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion working paper. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/574243f9
Rea, Stephen C., Ursula Dalinghaus, Taylor C. Nelms, and Bill Maurer. (2016).
"Riding the Rails of Mobile Payments: Financial Inclusion, Mobile Phones, and Infrastructure." In The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
Their work can be found on the website of the Future of Money Research Collaborative: https://moneyfutures.org/

Follow their work at:
https://www.stephencrea.com/
http://www.taylornelms.net/ and after our publications, could you include a link to our joint website with the follow line:

In this episode she will be talking to us about the different ways in which ethnicity, race and gender impact how young people engage with video games and each-other. We also talk about her work with the Culture and Technology Lab, how computational technology has changed the educational space in the US and about the role of the education sector in increasing diversity and access to the technology sector as a whole.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Video Game Census
Williams, D., Martins, N., Consalvo, M., & Ivory, J. D. (2009). The virtual census: Representations of gender, race and age in video games. New Media & Society, 11(5), 815-834.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444809105354

Betsy’s work:
Games Influence on CS Interest
DiSalvo, Betsy, and Bruckman, Amy (2009). Questioning Video Games’ Influence on CS Interest. Short paper, in Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, ACM, April, 2009.

Gaming and Masculinity -
DiSalvo, Betsy, Gaming Masculinity: Constructing Masculinity with Video Games. In Kafai, Yasmin B., Brendesha M. Tynes, and Gabriela T. Richard. Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon ETC Press, 2016.

DiSalvo, Betsy, Guzdial, Mark, Meadows, Charles, Mcklin, Tom, Perry, Kenneth and Bruckman, Amy (2013). Workifying Games: Successfully Engaging African American Gamers with Computer Science. Proceeding of 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Denver, CO, March 2013. (Acceptance rate 38%)

Maker Based Leaning -
DiSalvo, Betsy and DesPortes, Kayla (2017). Participatory Design for Value-Driven Learning. In Participatory Design for Learning: Perspectives from Practice and Research edited by Betsy DiSalvo, Jason Yip, Elizabeth Bonsignore, and Carl DiSalvo, New York: Routledge, 2017.

Parents use of Technology for Education
Wong-Villacres, Marisol, Ehsan, Upol, Solomon, Amber, Pozo Buil, Maria, and DiSalvo, Betsy, (2017). Design Guidelines for Parent-School Technologies to Support the Ecology of Parental Engagement. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2017, Stanford, June 2017.
DiSalvo, Betsy, Khanipour Roshan, Parisa. and Morrison, Briana. (2016).

Information Seeking Practices of Parents: Exploring Skills, Face Threats and Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM.
Roshan Khanipour, Parisa, Jacob, Maia, Dye, Michaelanne and DiSalvo, Betsy (2014) Exploring How Parents in Economically Depressed Communities Access Learning Resouces. Proceedings of the International ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (Group 2014), Sanibel Island, November 2014.

Follow her at:

https://www.betsydisalvo.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/betsy-disalvo-56061a4/

#videogames #diversity #edutech #inclusion #technology

In today’s episode we talk to Erin about her experience of applying anthropology to research the financial technology sector (like mobile payments), both in Haiti and The Netherlands. We also explore what is money, what types of relationships people build with it and its financial service providers, and how fin-tech fits into that. We explore the ethics and methods of asking people about their relationship to money (quick tip - ask for stories and not data). Lastly, we talk about the relationship between regulation and design, and the spaces of convergence between ethnographic and design research in the business sector.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Graeber, David, Debt: The First 5000 years
https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290

Sibel Kusimba on mobile money in Kenya:
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sywez6yKEbo&feature=youtu.be

Article - https://www.imtfi.uci.edu/files/kusimba_working_paper_final.pdf

Ethnoborrel, networking for professional ethnographers, https://ethnoborrel.eu

Koos Service Design, https://www.burokoos.com

Erin’s work:
Taylor, E.B. and H.A. Horst. 2017. Designing Financial Literacy in Haiti. In Design Anthropology: Object Cultures in Transition, edited by Alison J. Clarke. Springer.

Taylor, E.B. 2015. Mobile money: Financial globalization, alternative, or both? In MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy, edited by Geert Lovink, Nathaniel Tkacz and Patricia de Vries, pp.244-256. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.

Taylor, E.B. and H.A. Horst. 2014. The aesthetics of mobile money platforms in Haiti. In Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, edited by G. Goggin and L. Hjorth, pp.462-471. Oxon and New York: Routledge.

#applied-anthropology #ethics #fintech #mobilemoney

She enjoys teaching and has been a guest lecturer at the Design & Business program at RMIT University School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, and at the interaction design undergraduate program within the Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning at the University of Sydney.

Amy Sheppard Social Links:

Linked In

Twitter

#interactiondesign #innovation #insight #team #technology #productdesign

One facet of this research examines how digital healthcare technologies are reshaping patient-doctor communication as well as patient-to-patient communication through the creation of virtual communities of care. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Auckland New Zealand.

In this episode we talk to Susanna about the complex social world surrounding the use of medical apps. Through stories from her fieldwork Susanna shares how people make the app and the designated features fit their world; how people engage with other people through the app and the complex world of digital etiquette. We talk about ethics and regulation of medical technology and about how to take your next step as a student of anthropology.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Susanna’s book is available on amazon;

"One Blue Child"
https://www.amazon.com/One-Blue-Child-Responsibility-Anthropology/dp/1503602451

Another book mentioned in the podcast – The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media by Ilana Gershon

Susanna’s work:

TRNKA, S.H. and A.M. ORTIZ. “Reshaping the Landscape of Care: Health Apps and the Ethics of Self-responsibility and Care for the Other.”

Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. 14(2): 103-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol14iss2id3762017

Trnka, S. H. (2016). Digital Care: Agency and Temporality in Young People’s Use of Health Apps. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 248-248.

http://www.4sonline.org/blog/post/talking_digital_care_with_susanna_trnka_new_research_in_est

#medicalanthropology #medicalapps #intersociality #health #technology #anthrocareer

Formerly, she worked as a senior research scientist and lead the Human Interactions research area at the Xerox Research Center India. She was also part of Microsoft Research running studies of patterns of technology adoption in various social contexts and spaces in India, ranging from middle-class consumption of domestic media, the business models of cyber cafés and the use of mobile internet and Facebook among urban slum youth.

In this episode we talk to Nimmi about why some people consider technology “evil” and she doesn’t and how people make mobile and social media technologies their own. We will also be talking about topics such as access to technology in India as well as the corporate ethics of working with technology. Nimmi will also share her experience of working in the corporate sector and what is the value of anthropology to advance technological knowledge.

Nimmi Rangaswamy - LinkedIn

Nimmi’s work:

You can visit Nimmi’s profile at the sites below:

https://sites.google.com/a/iith.ac.in/dr-nimmi-rangaswamy/

https://www.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/nimmi.rangaswamy/

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Sumitra Nair (2010) “The Mobile Phone Store Ecology in a Mumbai Slum Community: Hybrid Networks for Enterprise” in ITD, volume 6, Issue 3, Fall, Special Issue IFIP.

(Full article available here: http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/view/563)

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Edward Cutrell (2013) “Anthropology, Development, and ICTs: Slums, Youth, and the Mobile Internet in Urban India” in ITD, volume 9, Issue 2, ICTD2012 Special Issue.

(Full article available here: http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1052)

#mobile internet #applied anthropology #access #ethics #technology 

Kevin’s work:

Visa design

https://design.visa.com

Fast Company’s 6th Annual Innovation by Design Awards – Finalist in Graphic Design and Data Visualisation category:

https://www.fastcodesign.com/innovation-by-design/2017/category/graphic-design-and-data-visualization

Featured Fast Company article:

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90158423/what-design-chiefs-at-uber-ibm-and-microsoft-care-about-in-2018-and-why

#insight #humanteams #technology 

In this episode we talk to Crystal about her work on social media, studying the practices of youth and Influencers. We chat about the intersections between social media and traditional media, and her upcoming book on internet celebrity cultures which speaks to these intersections.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Crystals upcoming book is available for pre-order now on Emerald Publishing.
Abidin, Crystal. 2018. Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online. Emerald Publishing.

Link to book here: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Internet-Celebrity/?k=9781787560796&loc=us

List of academic works: https://wishcrys.com/academic-publications/

Pieces related to the podcast:
Abidin, Crystal. 2017. “#familygoals: Family Influencers, Calibrated Amateurism, and Justifying Young Digital Labour.” Social Media + Society 3(2): 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/2056305117707191 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305117707191

Abidin, Crystal. 2017. “Vote for my selfie: Politician selfies as charismatic engagement.” Pp. 75-87 in Selfie Citizenship, edited by Adi Kuntsman. London: Palgrave Pivot. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-45270-8

Abidin, Crystal. 2017. “Sex Bait: Sex talk on commercial blogs as informal sexuality education.” Pp. 493-508 in Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education, edited by Louisa Allen and Mary Lou Rasmussen.

In this episode she will be talking to us about her job as a Principal Design, speaking to how she works with different researchers including social scientists and what makes a good design team. We talk about AI (artificial intelligence), the progress of technology, product design and what she thinks about when designing a product.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Microsoft Research Centre https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/

Follow her work at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shikha-desai-2a0bb/

Mentioned in Podcast:
Seaver, Nick. 2015. “The nice thing about context is that everyone has it.” Media,
Culture, and Society 37(7): 1101–1109.
Maffesoli, Michel. 1996. “The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism” in
Mass Society, SAGE Publications Ltd

Nick’s work:
Seaver, Nick. 2017. Algorithms as Culture: Some Tactics for the Ethnography of
Algorithmic Systems. In “Algorithms in Culture,” edited by Morgan Ames and
Massimo Mazzotti, special issue, Big Data & Society.
Seaver Nick. 2017. Arrival. In “Correspondences: Proficiency,” edited by Andrés
García Molina and Franziska Weidle. Cultural Anthropology website, June 27, 2017.

Follow his work at:
https://ase.tufts.edu/anthropology/people/seaver.htm
http://nickseaver.net/
@npseaver on Twitter

In this episode she will be talking to us about the type of functional and emotional relationships people build with software and devices from Excel to Apple to storage solutions like the Cloud.

We will also talk to the changing relationship of the technological product to both the user and the product team as the life cycle moves from launch to growth. Lastly we will be talking about emotional expression at work, grieving and how/when to kill products and what it is like to work in the technology sector alongside business specialists as a social scientist.

Mentioned in Podcast:
Ladner, S. (2014). Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in The Private Sector. Leftcoast Press: Thousand Oaks, California. ttp://www.practicalethnography.com/

Sam’s work:
You can visit her profile on https://www.mendeley.com/ which has links to publications. This site also includes many blog posts on productivity, mobile technology, and the design implications of today’s workplace. Ladner, S. (2015). “Managing The Private Sector Research Project.” in Dingwall, R. (ed.). Sage Handbook of Research Management. Sage: London.

Follow her work at:
Website – https://www.samladner.com
https://twitter.com/sladner

She teaches as an Adjunct Instructor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a Core Faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She has conducted and published research on food allergies and food culture in the United States, changing business models in the pharmaceuticalindustry, and how virtual reality will shape future conceptions of identity and embodiment.

In this episode she will be talking to us about her research within the food allergy sector, specifically about the Epipen and people’s relationships to it. We will also cover what it means to be a patient and how it influences the use and development of medical technologies. Lastly we will be talking about what it’s like to work in the medical sector as an applied anthropologist.

Mentioned in podcast:
Northwell Health, a not­for­profit healthcare network (the largest integrated health system in New York State, based on patient revenue) offering a range of outpatient services. https://www.northwell.eduDanya’s work: Glabau, D. (2016).

“Pricing the EpiPen: Drug Prices, Corporate Governance, and the Financialization of Biomedicine.” in Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology. Glabau, D. (2016).
The Moral Life of Epinephrine in the United States. Issues, 4, 2.Follow Danya at: Danyaglabau.com (for scholarly research and writing) and https://implosionlabs.com/(ethnographic research and consulting company)