Archives: Articles
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The scientist as sentinel
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Figures of Warning
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Preface: Crowds and Clouds
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Mapping the Social World: From Aggregates to Individuals
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Occupy Sourcing
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Top Needs of Occupy Sites
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Art by Ruben Hickman
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Microworking the Crowd
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Engineering Collectives: Technology From the Coop
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Am I Anonymous?
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Algorithmic Recommendations and Synaptic Functions
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Public Safety and Wall Street
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The Weakness of Crowds
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Can an Algorithm be Wrong?
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Crowd funding and its Challenges
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Crowds and Collectivities in Networked Electoral Politics
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The Touch-point Collective: Crowd Contouring on the Casino Floor
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Everywhere and Nowhere: Focus Groups as All-Purpose Devices
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Romans or Barbarians? Political Campaigns and Social Media in Colombia
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001: Prototyping Prototyping
What is a prototype and why is it a salient contemporary figure? This collection of writings was provoked by a conference, held in Madrid in November 2010. The goal was to “prototype” a conference publication before the conference itself, both as a demonstration of the process envisioned by ARC studio, and as a way to… Read more »
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Prototyping Prototyping: A Preface
by: Christopher M. Kelty Prototyping Prototyping, began as a conference publication that was finished before the conference. Its goal was to be a “prototype” of a conference on prototyping cultures. Participants were invited 2 weeks ahead of time to submit a short piece, and nearly everyone involved did so. I’m tempted to say: prototyping works…. Read more »
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A prototype para-site event: death penalty mitigation
by George Marcus, in coversation with Jesse Cheng [This exhibit relates to the “Parasites” project discussed by George Marcus. –ed.] The first Para-site event at the Center for Ethnography at UC Irvine occurred on November 5,2006. Jesse Cheng, an advanced graduate student, studied a movement among activist lawyers to mitigate the death penalty in capital… Read more »
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The Para-site in Ethnographic Research Projects
A Project of the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine While the design and conduct of ethnographic research in anthropology is still largely individualistic, especially in the way that research is presented in the academy, many projects depend on complex relationships of partnership and collaboration, at several sites, and not just those narrowly conceived… Read more »
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Para-sites: a Proto-Prototyping Culture of Method?
George Marcus, UC Irvine [this text discusses the “Para-Sites” project of the Center for Ethnography and it’s first event, on death penalty mitigation (see exhibit Y) — ed.] Classic anthropological ethnography, especially in its development in the apprentice project/dissertation form, was designed to provide answers, or at least data, for questions that anthropology had for… Read more »
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Cross-Cultural Partnership: TEMPLATE and HOWTO
[From The Cross Cultural Partnership website. Discussed by James Leach in his presentation.–ed] DRAFT version 0.3, September 2007 Preamble The cross-cultural partnership template is designed to help potential collaborators to reach understanding and agreement on the terms of their collaboration. In many contexts people look to the law to establish or enforce a ‘safe space’… Read more »
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Prototyping relationships: on techno-political hospitality
Alberto Corsín Jiménez & Adolfo Estalella, CSIC, Spanish National Research Council When drafting the original call for papers that led to the ‘Prototyping cultures’ conference, we noted that the figure of the ‘prototype’ had recently emerged as a currency of explanation and description in a number of para-laboratory contexts: from classical industrial and engineering sites… Read more »
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Prototypes in Design: Materializing Futures
Alex Wilkie The two excerpts that follow are drawn from my Ph.D. research User Assemblages in Design: An Ethnographic Study. The thesis is an examination of the role of multiple users in user-centered design (UCD) processes and is based on a six-month ethnographic field study of designers employed to apply the principles and practices of… Read more »
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Infra(proto)types In the Air
by: Nerea Calvillo Presentation as a prototype itself: opens questions through the material of In the Air, a project which makes visible the components of the air. A degree of skill and experience is necessary to effectively use prototyping as a design verification tool. (Wikipedia) Prototypical methodology. A prototype is generally object oriented, but it… Read more »
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Protoyping Democracies