9/9/22 Spark Weekly Roundup

? Top Stories This Week

See You Later, Thick Data. Junior anthropology scholars Sofie L?bo Astrupgaard, Clara Rosa Sandbye , and Emilie Gregersen introduce their upcoming blogpost series called “See You Later, Thick Data”, which explores the dynamics of issue attention at a Danish political festival through the lens of what Morten Axel Pedersen calls "machine anthropology". Sep 7

Maintaining the Privacy and Security of Research Participants’ Data. Samhita Tankala outlines six best practices to follow to protect participant data before, during, and after a study. Sep 4

User Research & Engineering: Better Together During Discovery. Julia Tan and Carolina Aldas offer practical strategies for how to productively involve Engineering stakeholders in the Discovery research process, providing several examples of how they successfully collaborated with engineers while working at Spotify . Sep 2

Moving Between Academic Anthropology and Practitioner Work. Anthropologists Winifred Tate , Erin K. McFee, PhD, MBA , and Gillian Tett share their experiences with crossing between the fast-paced worlds of policy, politics, and journalism and the slower depth of academic research, offering insight into the discomforts and opportunities that such crossover work can engender.? Aug 31

Just in Time (how to be an anthropologist in business). Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken discusses his experience with moving into the world of business and consulting and the lessons he learned along the way. Blog post

?? Podcast of the Week

Yaya Ren on Anthropology in Business with Matt Artz. In this week’s episode of Anthropology in Business, Matt Artz sits down with Yaya Ren PhD/JD to discuss her journey from getting a PhD in Medical Anthropology to founding a health tech startup called PreeMe+You as well as the challenges of negotiating between nuance and actionability while working as an anthropologist in the business world. Sep 5

?? Video of the Week

Keynote: Inclusive Design and the Pathway to Action. Digital anthropologist Payal Arora delivers a talk on the importance of rethinking the Global South and its relationship to technological innovation for creating more inclusive design. Youtube video

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Daniel