tech.culture.matters @TechCultures
Research collective @umsi. We study cultures of technology production and use. techculturematters.com Ann Arbor, MI Joined February 2016-
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ALSO, this great news from our group member @1roboter 🎉🎉
WE HAVE NEWS! Our director and mentor @yunnia’s book Prototype Nation was awarded the prestigious Francis L.K. Hsu book prize by @EastAsiaAnthro 🥳🍾🎊🍻🎉
RoboTruckers! -- TODAY at 4pm ET, @UMich participants can join @MichiganSTS and @karen_ec_levy for a talk about the implications of #AI for low-wage work. esc.umich.edu/event/karen-le…
I am looking for a PhD student to join me @MediaInfoMSU in Fall 2022 who is interested in doing ethnographic, community-based, and/or design research on the role of digital technology in American rural economic development.
I've been working the past four months putting together a group of faculty and students at Michigan State who do research and outreach on rural computing. I'm happy to share that we are officially launching the Rural Computing Research Consortium this Fall.
I've been working the past four months putting together a group of faculty and students at Michigan State who do research and outreach on rural computing. I'm happy to share that we are officially launching the Rural Computing Research Consortium this Fall.
🚨 new publication alert 🚨 I co-authored this annual review essay on the anthropology of attention with Morten Axel Pedersen and @Krisalbris, in which we try to draw out the disciplines’s longstanding, mostly tacit interest in attention: annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an…
New paper alert from our TCM member @1roboter 📣📣
✨🏳️🌈research opportunity🏳️⚧️✨: participate in our (paid) interview study about experiences with content and account removals on social media! especially looking to hear from LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people. please retweet! screening survey here: tinyurl.com/umsi-ecm
Woohoo! Great news from our very own @yunnia
As a vice-chair to CPT, I came up with this idea hoping to meet the book authors I secretly admired. :) Such as Jing Wang, @Gleemie @yunnia @msteinbrg But my colleague and CCA chair Jack Qiu turned it into a mid-summer feast of recent books about Digital Asia.
Communication Technology & Policy Section #IAMCR2021 is co-organizing a virtual book talk series with National University of Singapore and Chinese Communication Association. The full series will cover 7 books. Registration docs.google.com/document/d/1At… @IAMCRtweets @iamcrconference
.@umsi prof @niftyc: “The issue at the heart of our case has now been decided by @Scotus. It is now clear that academics like us and investigative journalists are not criminal hackers when we examine public information released by big tech companies.” news.umich.edu/supreme-court-…
New report finds Amazon warehouse injuries are 80% higher than their competitors bbc.com/news/technolog…
I took a breath this weekend, and feel like I can reflect on the WL situation. I was concerned about writing this down earlier because I thought it might add fuel to the “Eric and UMSI are out to get me” narrative.

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