Gregory's Server@mhoye here are some details on Rodrigo's talk called "Anthropological Strategies for Reimagining the Digital": https://antropologen.nl/anthropology-day-2023-keynote-lectures/
My notes:
- 1970s: observing human-machine interactions: Lucy Suchman
- 1990s: questioning artificial "intelligence" and "life": Diana Forsythe; Stefan Helmreich
- 2000s: studying virtual worlds: Tom Boellstorff; _Race in Cyberspace_
- exposing the hidden labor behind automated systems
- investigating unintended consequences of algorithmic systems
- studying material infrastructures and environmental impacts of digital infrastructures
- comparing diverse uses and designs of digital media around the world: Payal Arora
- thinking with activists, hackers, free & open source software advocates
- adopting digital methods and interactive media in ethnographic research
- studying how digital technologies could have been designed otherwise
(apparently I got distracted toward the end...)
@mhoye oh, one more thing, since I agree with people replying that doing something hands-on is important: One exercise that Rodrigo does in "Digital Anthropology" is to have students read Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" and then to have them play the imitation game. It's really effective!