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Exposing the interface: the critical future of (cyborg) anthropology

Should ditigal research by anthropologists, or <i>cyborg anthropology</i>, be made available as a corporate market research technique? Or should it make explicit how our “predictions” for the future normalize political and corporate interests?

Dorien Zandbergen • 22-04-2013

Diversity · Digitalisation

My days as a cyborg: how I (temporarily) became the Kenyan elections

Between March 4 and 9 I lived in a vacuum. My sole companions were my laptop and my smartphone; together we merged into one grand news-consuming machine. Kenya was at the centre of my universe, the Kenyan elections my sole concern.

Marlous van den Akker • 14-04-2013