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A few weeks ago, I took part in a codesign workshop in digital science and technology studies at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum. My team (consisting of Hanna Rose Shell, Max Liboiron, and Shad Gross) designed three data narratives about decomposition at the Arboretum. We started our project with a sensory exploration of the Arboretum dump, […]

My chapter on free software and anthropology has been published in the edited collection “Digital Anthropology.” In this chapter, I situate anthropological approaches to the utopian premises of free software and daily practices that sustain FS projects around the world. I also present some preliminary thoughts of how struggles over software may matter to anthropologists […]

This year I will be teaching “Introduction to Digital Media” and “Media and Cultural Analysis.” Find more info on these courses on my “Teaching” page.

I am giving a talk entitled “Free Software Citizenship: Digital Media Infrastructures and Civic Engagement” at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.  The talk is scheduled for Sunday, March 15 at 10 a.m. at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New Orleans, panel N15, entitled “New Media Citizenship.”  Other presenters are Nadia […]

My first article is finally published!  “Contentious Europeanization: The Paradox of Becoming European through Anti-Patent Activism” is being published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.  The full citation, abstract, and the pre-print version of the article are available on my Publications page. Many thanks to Ethnos editors Nils Bubandt and Mark Graham for a thoroughly encouraging […]

Next week I am giving a talk in the “Global Fieldwork” series organized by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Lafayette College.  My talk, entitled “Activist Intimacies: Testimonials, Publicity, and Free Software Advocacy in France” will take place on Tuesday, October 26th from 4:15 to 6 p.m. in Hugel 103.  I’d love to see you there!

I plan to investigate how cats have altered the development of the internet, and how inter-species animal relationships have been changed by increasing digitization.  I will pay special attention to the protest strategies employed by other animal groups as they react to the disproportionate representation of their feline peers. My sources will be drawn from […]

This semester I am teaching two new courses: “Introduction to Digital Media” and “Media and Global Communication.”  Both are undergraduate courses offered at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication.  You can find the course descriptions and reading lists on my Teaching page.

I am co-organizing a panel entitled “Ethnography 2.0: Anthropology of Online Commitments,” at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association: This panel examines how anthropological theory and methods can critically engage with people’s daily lives as they increasingly encompass diverse online platforms. Early ethnographic research about the internet emphasized that existing cultural categories […]

My Green Card has finally arrived! More precisely, the “Welcome to the United States” notice has arrived. The actual Green Card machine is apparently being upgraded, so for the time being I am getting a temporary replacement card. These exciting details notwithstanding, the Welcome notice is timely: in ten days, I am traveling to Zurich […]