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240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)

This Machine Kills

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I Love That You're Starting Off With Methods, Right?

I love that we're starting off by talking about methods because this is such an important part of the book. I'm not an ethnographer, but I more have dialyances with ethnography and find how it's useful for my work. With like the studying the in share tech industry as I'm doing right now, like going to the conferences is so crucial. But also what you were mentioning around like move like the danger of moving an informal relationship into a formal relationship can really change the structure of that.

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