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Anthropology of Data and AI
Social Science Insights on Technology


Optimism, not pessimism, gives the energy necessary for change
When it comes to emerging technology, the tendency to sink into pessimism is strong - after all, there's so much to be anxious about, and...

Tanja Ahlin
Dec 12, 20241 min read
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Book celebration!
Attending the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Toronto? Make sure to drop by our happy hour on November 16th from...

Tanja Ahlin
Oct 28, 20231 min read
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Calling Family is Published!
Today, 11 August 2023, is the official publication date of my book, Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational...

Tanja Ahlin
Aug 11, 20231 min read
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Imagining the user: On designing technology with older test users
Neven, Louis. "‘But obviously not for me’: robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users." Sociology of health &...

Tanja Ahlin
Apr 12, 20234 min read
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Unboxing AI - but how?
Technologies don't exist in a vacuum, but are social phenomena: the way they are designed, produced and used is contingent on their...

Tanja Ahlin
Mar 22, 20234 min read
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Big Data in Medicine: Promises and Pragmatism
Greene, Jeremy A., and Andrew S. Lea. "Digital futures past the long arc of big data in medicine." The New England journal of medicine...

Tanja Ahlin
Feb 21, 20233 min read
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