Tamara Gupper @tgupper@scholar.social
PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology | Humanoid Robotics and AI | she/her
Joined Feb 2021
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Time for re- #introductions!
I am a PhD student in cultural anthropology and I work on the processes through which software is developed for humanoid robots. I also pursue an undergraduate degree in computer science.
Apart from this, two colleagues and I have started a project on safety in ethnographic fieldwork, and I have become a big fan of generative art!
I have a website where I document most of my academic activities, check it out if you are interested: tamaragupper.de
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Found some generated bugs, overflowers and funky fingers in my post box and absolutely love them <3 Thank you so much @bleeptrack , they will decorate my laptop from now on :)
Is there an official name for the fear of sending a mail to a mailing list? Mailinglistophobia?
Last weekend, I held a 40-minute lecture about robots for kids aged between 8 and 12, followed by three different activities for the kids to further engage with the topic. Check out my blogpost if you are interested in what we did and how it went:
Time for re- #introductions!
I am a PhD student in cultural anthropology and I work on the processes through which software is developed for humanoid robots. I also pursue an undergraduate degree in computer science.
Apart from this, two colleagues and I have started a project on safety in ethnographic fieldwork, and I have become a big fan of generative art!
I have a website where I document most of my academic activities, check it out if you are interested: tamaragupper.de
Currently preparing my lecture about robots at a children's university this weekend. Very excited to talk to 8- to 12-year-olds about what robots are, how they work and how we already live with robots today. And hoping they'll like it of course!
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Hello :)
My name is Anne, I'm a 24yo prospective PhD student in France. Usually not a huge fan of social media but I found Mastodon really interesting (thanks to @kirk). I overthink everything I post - so I usually don't post anything. I'm half Irish and I work on conservative anti-abortion movements in #Ireland in political science/sociology.
Ok this took me 30min so I'm going to bed now 🙂 excited to connect with people who share my interests though!
#introduction
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A little note to all of us with that ol' imposter syndrome:
when someone compliments your work, *hear them.*
Don't ignore the compliment. Don't think "they're just being nice."
Hear them.
We all know how easy it is to hear negative critiques. It takes effort to hear that you're doing good work.
My website is finally online! Very nervous and extremely excited about it, but above all proud of how it turned out. Check it out here: tamaragupper.de
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Doing live streams can feel the worst, you give so much energy and then at the end there's silence and you're on your own and have no idea what really just happened.
If you want to make someone happy send them a message to say you liked their live stream
Thanks a lot to the organizers of #SummerSchool, it really was a great event! It was amazing to hear so many fascinating talks, and even better to meet some of you whom I have only known through your toots so far. It was an honor to moderate @bcallah’s talk and thank you to @ckohtala for moderating mine! Can’t wait for next year’s SummerSchool!
Hello everyone! This Thursday, on August 5 at 8:00 am UTC, I will be presenting about the concept of artificial intelligence at Scholar.Social’s summer school. My two main points will be a conceptualization of the line drawn between “AI” and “just code”, and the relation between concepts of AI and concepts of humans. It would be great to see many of you there, so please sign up for it if you haven’t already!
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Maybe you already know it (for me is a nice surprise): there is a free (pdf) book download website that belongs to Open Humanities Press with complete books within several series in regards philosophical, ecological, tech, media, themes.
The series are edited by some known people and most of them are in Spanish, French and English:
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How my projects end up in a museum? I'll show you in my latest video. Premiere starts in 10 mins! Would love to see you in the chat <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QndBL7lyYuw
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Enquête : Transmasculinités Féministes
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Bonjour à tou·tes,
Je suis un étudiant trans* en master d'études de genre, et je réalise une enquête sociologique sur les féminismes des garçons trans* et des personnes non-binaires transmasculines.
C'est une enquête "par et pour", grâce à laquelle j'espère dégager des pistes théoriques pour le militantisme transféministe.
Si ça t'intéresse de participer, n'hésite pas à m'envoyer un DM ! :)
Just opened a book detailling an empirical study on social robots. Saw that the first page of the first chapter is a summary of a fictional movie. Then closed the book and put it on the list of negative examples.
We REALLY need to stop using fiction as the basis of our arguments when writing about robotics. (Unless their representation in fiction is the research question.)
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New fav. Quote: "We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." -- Ellen Ullman
One real advantage of all academic events happening online is that you can take part in many different events held in different places in one day. Tomorrow I’ll be starting with a workshop held in Southern Germany in the morning, then listen to a lecture in Central Germany half an hour later, and spend the evening listening to talks and discussions in Atlanta!
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Hi scholar.social, Hi fediverse!
Mark here from Delft, Netherlands. I just started a PhD to research socio-technical enablers/inhibitors of software testing. In the next 4 years I will look into how and why developers do (not) test software. I am particularly interested in the social dimensions of this which is why I'm also curious to learn more about ethnographic research methods.
Looking forward to be a part of the scholar.social community to connect and share insights!
PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology | Humanoid Robotics and AI | she/her
Joined Feb 2021
