Author Archives: jordan

announcing my new postdoc position (+ AAA panel in December)

I’m very pleased to announce that I’m joining the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University this year as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. This year’s theme is Mobilities, and I’ll be continuing my work on constructions of mobility and sociality in social and mobile media. I’ll be giving a public lecture on my research in October (details TBA).

In addition, Angela VandenBroek and I have co-organized an invited session for the annual American Anthropological Association (AAA) meetings in December, in D.C., on technology, design, and inequality (Accidentally by Design: Producing Difference and Inequality Through Technological Designs). The session is being sponsored by CASTAC, through the General Anthropology Division.

Ethics of User Experience Research: What anthropology can tell us about Facebook’s controversial study

Ethics of User Experience Research: What anthropology can tell us about Facebook’s controversial study. Where is the line between industry user research and academic human subjects research? And what rights do—or should—users have over how their (our) data is used? As user research becomes an established part of technology design, questions of research ethics become even more pressing. Read more on the CASTAC Blog.

Welcome!

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Welcome to my website! I’m an anthropologist and ethnographer studying media, technology, and place, especially mobile and social communications in European and transnational contexts. Find out more about my work and my background on the biography page, read about my current and upcoming research projects (soon to be updated), check out my CV, or take a look at some of my recent writings and publications. You can reach me at jordan@jordankraemer.com. Thanks for dropping by!