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Articles studying the impact of COVID-19
Articles that study lived experience of COVID-19 through the lens of digital ethnography and autoethnography
Thinking Aloud, some video clips about the Massive_Micro Project
In these video clips, Anne Harris and Annette Markham think aloud about the process, next steps, and ‘where we’re at’ in the Massive_Microscopic_Sensemaking project.
“21 Days of”: A COVID-19 Autoethnography Experiment
The immediate and overwhelming level of interest is a powerful indicator of how much people really want to connect with others to try and make sense of this strange time of global trauma. The process we put in place is experimental and collaborative:
Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking Call
Call for Expressions of Interest As the world grapples with the fallout from the pandemic of 2020, people everywhere struggle to deal with everyday challenges. [there are struggles but also the renewal of old hobbies, finding...
Critical Algorithm Studies: Ethnographic Approaches
Upcoming PhD symposium features anthropologist and STS scholar Nick Seaver, talking about Critical Algorithm Studies. Register now for this May 27, 2019 symposium!
‘Recoding Art: Van Abbemuseum Collection’ premiere at “Bodies of Knowledge” symposium
BioBruno MoreschiBruno Moreschi is a researcher and artist with projects related to the deconstruction of complex systems, among them the visual arts, especially their physical and virtual spaces of legitimation. He has a PhD in Visual Arts at Unicamp (State...
/Living in/ A Methodology of Transgressiveness/
What’s the value of transgressiveness? The Skagen Institute annual conference offers opportunities you never thought you needed. Jannek Sommer offers a small riff in this post.
Speculating with predictive memory-making: The (Black) Box of Memories
At EASST, we used speculative science-fiction to think about current and future algorithms for memory-making. Through a fictional story and its analysis, we discuss the “black-box” metaphor, the business/entrepreneurial aspect of algorithms, and the conception of predictive memory-making.
Glitch Memory: Raising Ethical Questions
At Godsbanen, we retell a woman’s story, one year after she donated her memory to MoRM. On three screens, excerpts and meta-conversations are mutated and glitched algorithmically to raise questions about data degradation and the illusion of the representational archive.