A Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology
A field guide to interface culture.
by Amber Case
Anthropology/Technology
120 pages
Background
Cyborg Anthropology is a way of understanding how we live as technosocially connected citizens in the modern era. Our cell phones, cars
and laptops have turned us into cyborgs. What does it mean to extend the body into hyperspace? What are the implications to privacy,
information and the formation of identity? Now that we have a second self, how do we protect it?
What?
This text covers various subjects such as time and space compression, hyperlinked memories, panic architecture, mobile technology,
interface evaporation and how technology is changing the way we live.
Who?
Useful for researchers, scientists, interface designers, developers, professors, students, and anyone who engages with or wishes to better
understand technology and culture.
About the Author
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and UX Designer from Portland, Oregon. Her main focus is applying anthropology to mobile computing and social software.
Case has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT's Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder.
Case founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and technology. In 2010 she was named one of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Tech.
You can learn more about Cyborg Anthropology at cyborganthropology.com, and on Twitter at @caseorganic.
Anthropology/Technology
120 pages
Cyborg Anthropology is a way of understanding how we live as technosocially connected citizens in the modern era. Our cell phones, cars and laptops have turned us into cyborgs. What does it mean to extend the body into hyperspace? What are the implications to privacy, information and the formation of identity? Now that we have a second self, how do we protect it?
This text covers various subjects such as time and space compression, hyperlinked memories, panic architecture, mobile technology, interface evaporation and how technology is changing the way we live.
Useful for researchers, scientists, interface designers, developers, professors, students, and anyone who engages with or wishes to better understand technology and culture.
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and UX Designer from Portland, Oregon. Her main focus is applying anthropology to mobile computing and social software.
Case has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT's Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder.
Case founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and technology. In 2010 she was named one of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Tech.
You can learn more about Cyborg Anthropology at cyborganthropology.com, and on Twitter at @caseorganic.
