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Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, part of the GAD of the American Anthropological Association | castac.org |

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CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · yesterday

What does it mean when a game promises to listen? In China's romance games, virtual boyfriends hang on your every word, and the game studios say they do too. New on Platypus, Cathy Naijia Liu writes on how "being heard" turns into a demand players make on the companies behind the games.

Drawing of a women-oriented, romance simulation game studio.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 4d ago

Children are not passive recipients of new technology. New on Platypus, Manar Naser chronicles her experience with elementary-age students, who understand AI's taboo nature, call low-effort ideas AI slop, and reject data centers in their communities. Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/08/the-...

A large group of people gathers on a grassy field with tents, tables, chairs, and activities for children.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 2w ago

How can medicalization create spaces for women to freely explore their sexuality? New on Platypus, Neslihan Sen uses vaginismus as a lens in Turkey to analyze the paradoxical relationship between sexual agency and the medicalization of sexuality. Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/08/from...

Yellow, pink, and white candles are laid out on a white patterned plastic bag on a table, in different sizes, carved and shaped.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 4w ago

The first post in Labor Tech India's series on Platypus presents union organisers' perspectives on researchers' contributions to movement spaces, with suggestions to minimize research fatigue and facilitate collaborative engagements.

The picture is composed of three separate images. The first shows a woman with medium length black hair in a blue saree. The second shows a man with black hair and a white patterned shirt holding a mike. The third shows a man with a white shirt and grey trousers addressing a gathering.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · last mo.

Why aren't disease "hotspots" neutral descriptions of who is getting sick? New on Platypus, Katharina Rynkiewich examines the U.S. measles outbreak alongside frontline healthcare providers in South Florida to show how hotspot maps are sociotechnical and political objects.

The image shows part of a map of the contiguous United States with red and green pins in different places.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In League of Legends, the economy doesn't end at Riot's store. New on Platypus, Iván Flores follows the informal markets for skins, accounts, and coaching that make up its "digital porosity" - proof that corporate platforms are powerful, but never fully closed.

Close-up of stacked gold and silver coins on various currency notes, symbolizing wealth and savings.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AI will transform education. We've heard that for decades. New on Platypus, Martin Oliver and Jade Vu Henry use the lenticular cloud - stationary in appearance, constituted by continuous movement - to rethink EdTech's stuckness as a practice of repair rather than a failure of progress.

Two lenticular clouds resembling lens-shaped discs hover over a rocky, snow-covered landscape at Arctowski Station.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Microbiome science begins with cold hands and a barcode that has to survive the wind. New on Platypus, @victor.secco@bsky.social follows sampling expeditions on the Belgian coast to trace the invisible labour that turns soil and water into data — and asks who gets the credit.

Three samplers collecting sediment samples using green gloves and plastic sampling cores in a muddy coastal environment.
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can anthropology's colonial legacies be reassembled on crip time? A new post on Platypus by Seon Shim traces disability anthropology as a practice of taking up space where and how it is not expected — arriving late, moving slowly, and building toward crip futures.

Flyer for the SANDS Disabled Grad Student Meet Up, featuring a pastel blue-and-white wavy checkerboard background, announcing an online gathering for disabled and neurodivergent graduate students.