Cite as:
Adams, James. 2018. “Nick Seaver.” In UCI Anthro Alumni, edited by James Adams and Margaret Woodruff. In UCI Anthro STS, edited by James Adams and Margaret Woodruff. In STS Across Borders Digital Exhibit, edited by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Society for Social Studies of Science. August. http://stsinfrastructures.org/content/nick-seaver/essay.
This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: “What people, projects, and products exemplify how this STS formation has developed over time?”
This essay is part of a broader exhibit on UCI Anthro STS.
Nick Seaver is an alumnus of UCI’s Department of Anthropology, receiving his PhD in 2015. His research looks at the cultural theories of software developers and how their ideas about taste and attention shape the way they make subjectively attuned technical objects. Dr. Seaver is currently an associate professor at Tufts University where he teaches in the Department of Anthropology and in the Science, Technology, and Society program. He is also co-chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
Clips from an interview with Nick Seaver about his experiences and research on the development of STS in and outside the Department of Anthropology at UCI.
This is a chapter from the Prickly Paradigm pamphlet Data, Now Bigger and Better, where Nick Seaver uses Malinowski's scathing review of formal analyses of kinship-as "bastard algebra"- as an entry point into current debates about "Big Data" science.Read more
Abstract:
This article responds to recent debates in critical algorithm studies about the significance of the term ‘‘algorithm.’’ Where some have suggested that critical scholars should align their use of the term with its common definition in professional computer science, I argue that we...Read more