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Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, part of the GAD of the American Anthropological Association |

Joined November 2011
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Join us for #CASPR2026! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani. May 29, 10:30AM–12:30PM CT. Free & online. Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com #CASTAC #Anthropology #STS
Promotional graphic for CASPR 2026 — CASTAC in the Spring. The image features a vintage botanical illustration of two platypuses on a branch surrounded by orange and pink flowers on a cream background. Text reads: "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds: Historical Encounters and New Directions in the Field. Friday, May 29, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Central). Join us for a roundtable presentation and breakout Q&A discussions with panelists Kalpana Shankar (University College Dublin), David Nemer (University of Virginia), and Lilly Irani (UC San Diego) in memory of David Hakken. Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com."

ALT Promotional graphic for CASPR 2026 — CASTAC in the Spring. The image features a vintage botanical illustration of two platypuses on a branch surrounded by orange and pink flowers on a cream background. Text reads: "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds: Historical Encounters and New Directions in the Field. Friday, May 29, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Central). Join us for a roundtable presentation and breakout Q&A discussions with panelists Kalpana Shankar (University College Dublin), David Nemer (University of Virginia), and Lilly Irani (UC San Diego) in memory of David Hakken. Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com."
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Today on #Platypus, Leonardo Thibau presents a multimodal critical cartography of the "Canal do Búfalo" forum, tracing how Brazil's early manosphere used toponymic aliases to frame belonging, resentment, and masculinist truth-making online.
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Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/06/cart…
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Today on #Platypus: From striking sparks to keeping a flame alive, fire is a learned skill. Archaeological traces reveal that ancient humans used fire in flexible ways, shaped by environment and need. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/06/trac…
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Today on #Platypus, Alejandro Cerón examines how epidemiologists navigate the tension between technical expertise and political objectives towards outbreak mitigation, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Guatemala. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/06/outb…
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ALT This is a collage with a triangle in between and a photo of a man in the center. The man's photo has been divided into four parts. There are splashes of yellow, blue, and red in the background. There is an orbit drawing on one side of the triangle and a crown on another side.
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Today on #Platypus, Cristian Gustavo Gutiérrez Pinzón asks: are emerging biotechnologies transforming disability into something to be prevented, corrected, or eliminated? Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/06/is-t…
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Today on #Platypus, Ana Paula Perrota (@anapaulaperrota), Leonardo Dupin, and Rosângela Cintrão explore how industrial sanitary norms render traditional food cultures illegal in Brazil, and what that reveals about whose knowledge counts in global food safety regimes.
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Today on #Platypus, Debjani Chakraborty explores how mobile phone affordances are reappropriated across rural Indian contexts - sometimes as navigation tools, at other times as instruments of surveillance. Read this post at: blog.castac.org/2026/05/dome…
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ALT Three young girls in a rural setting gather around a smartphone, closely watching content on the screen together.
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Starting in 20 minutes! We are ready to start the conversation of this year with Kalpana Shanker, David Nemer & Lilly Irani! follow this thread for the latest conversations on #CASPR2026!
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#CASPR2026 "How software has an AI component and how does that impact the knowledge we produce with ethnography", is a key idea of the Ethnography then and now breakout room led by Platypus Editor, Kim Fernandes.
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#CASPR2026 is done. Thank you to our guests for their generous contributions and insights for anthropological work regarding technology and computing! We hope you had an enriching dialogue, and we look forward to keeping in touch with you on all our platforms! ❤️
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#CASPR2026 We are now discussing in different breakout rooms! How do we engage with AI tools, and how does it shape our relationship with data? How are design and communities changing? 1 "Ethnography Then an Now" 2 "Worker Education" 3 "Technology within Anthropology."
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#CASPR2026 The Q&A sections are coming to an end with a review on what ethnography can offer to understand new labor dynamics, to show the workarounds of the algorithm, and the different new labor structures. We are now moving to the breakout rooms!
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We are now starting with our third panelist, David Nemer, University of Virginia. Prof Nemer starts by reminding us of David Hakken's relevance to the culture, computing, and society program and how it shaped his own ethnography in Brazil.
A Zoom meeting screenshot displaying David Nemer in the main speaker view. He is a man with a beard and dark-rimmed glasses, wearing a grey suit jacket and a white shirt, and he appears to be speaking. The background behind him shows a bright office environment with glass partitions. Along the top of the screen is a row of smaller video thumbnails showing other participants, including Natalia Orrego, Lilly Irani, and Kalpana Shankar, alongside nameplates for participants without video enabled.

ALT A Zoom meeting screenshot displaying David Nemer in the main speaker view. He is a man with a beard and dark-rimmed glasses, wearing a grey suit jacket and a white shirt, and he appears to be speaking. The background behind him shows a bright office environment with glass partitions. Along the top of the screen is a row of smaller video thumbnails showing other participants, including Natalia Orrego, Lilly Irani, and Kalpana Shankar, alongside nameplates for participants without video enabled.
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#CASPR2026 Our second panelist, Professor Lilly Irani (UC San Diego), starts reflecting on a classical work by Professor David Hakken, "Impacts of Liberation Pedagogy: The Case of Workers' Education".
Screenshot of Lili Irani`s presentation entitled "Liberatory Education about "AI": Thinking with David Hakken".

ALT Screenshot of Lili Irani`s presentation entitled "Liberatory Education about "AI": Thinking with David Hakken".
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