EmTech Anthropology
Subtitle: Careers at the Frontier
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2024
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781040091524
Copyright date: 2025
Description: EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier emphasizes anthropology’s critical role at the frontier of emerging technologies (EmTech). The book explores the opportunities and challenges that arise as anthropologists venture into the territory of EmTech, pushing the boundaries of traditional academic approaches and methodologies.

By sharing the stories and insights of early to mid-career anthropologists working in AI, robotics, Web3, cybersecurity, and other cutting-edge fields, the book provides a possible roadmap for future practitioners seeking to make an impact in the world of EmTech. These anthropologists demonstrate how the discipline's unique perspective and skills can be applied to address the complex ethical, social, and cultural implications of emerging technologies.

The volume showcases how anthropologists can act as visionaries, innovators, and early adopters, shaping the trajectory of EmTech towards more ethical, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable futures. It highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, practical impact, and intervention in EmTech contexts while also acknowledging the need for anthropologists to challenge existing narratives and push the boundaries of the discipline itself.

EmTech Anthropology: Stories from the Frontier serves as an essential resource for anthropologists, students, and professionals from related disciplines who are interested in exploring the frontiers of anthropology and emerging technologies. By offering a glimpse into the exciting possibilities and compelling insights that emerge when anthropology meets EmTech, the book inspires and guides the next generation of anthropological innovators.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements; label: Foreword; label: 1 Introduction
title: Matt Artz and Lora Koycheva; label: 2 Everyday Life, Ever-Present AI: Data and Privacy in Voice Assistants and Chatbots
title: Laura Musgrave; label: 3 Reimagining Recommender Systems: Towards a More Equitable Model for Creators
title: Matt Artz; label: 4 Towards an Anthro-Centric Cybersecurity
title: Lianne Potter; label: 5 Cargo Cult or Kula Ring? The Battle for Shared Ethos in Web3
title: Melyn McKay; label: 6 Anthropology Is Good to Build With: From Ethnographic Imagination to Anthropological Speculation in Robotics
title: Lora Koycheva; label: 7 Latin American NewSpace: Anthropological Collaborations and Critiques
title: Anne W. Johnson; label: 8 Good Ethnography for Good Food: Making Genetic Engineering Palatable to the US Market
title: Mujtaba Hameed; label: 9 Biotechnology and Anthropology: Bringing Human Experience into Focus
title: Thomas Scott Hughes; label: 10 The Space Between: Charting the Past and Future Relationships between Anthropology and Emerging Technologies
title: Kate Sieck