Project+Hopping


 * **Topical Area** || **Data Sets** || **Social Theoretical Questions** || **Why Now** || **How Prepared** || **Bias** || **Fields of Work** || **Funders** ||
 * Online intellectual property law || Interviews with cyber-crime policy-makers, participant-observation with hacker groups, DMCA, Interviews with software creators, Participant-observation at legal conferences. || How is property understood online? What model of policy-making is used for online sites? What happens to laws when they're translated from offline to online? || Widespread discourses condemning online piracy of games, music, and movies. Legal actions against hacker groups jailbreaking game consoles and accessing proprietary software. || Keeping informed about current piracy events. Participant in the piracy and anti-piracy discourses. || Avid gamer. Critic of dominant conceptualizations of property and subjectivity online. Grew up while the Internet came of age. || Political anthropology. Law school focusing on cyber-crime. Law enforcement consultant on cyber-crime matters. Legal analyst. || SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, HASS Fellowship, ||
 * Euthanasia of scientific model organisms || Participant-observation in science labs, Interviews with geneticists, biologists and graduate students, Participant-observation and interviews with animal activists. || How does a living subject become a commodity? What is the relationship between animal and human subjects in the sciences? What factors influence mundane scientific practices? || Current interest in genetic research. || Previous work on anthropological projects focusing on the biosciences. Interest in translation moments (ie, subject/commodity). Previous training in the natural sciences (mostly engineering) || Mother is a cancer survivor. Long-time involvement with science. Part of a cultural minority group in country of birth. || Bioethicist. Medical anthropologist. Policy analyst for governmental health agencies. || SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, HASS Fellowship ||
 * Proliferation of Data Modeling Techniques || Data modeling programs, Interviews with governmental and scientific data analysts, participant-observation with environmental justice groups, participant-observation with policy advisory bodies. || Why do models become more desirable than locally collected data? How do models create particular subjects and objects? || Popularity of models in data analysis and policy-making, environmental justice groups using data projection for environmental issues. || Work with video games reflects data modeling concerns and effects, background in computer engineering and IT. || Anthropology background pushes me toward using local and contextualized data, part of an economic and cultural class that has easy access to technology. || Social activism (environmental, health, etc.). Anthropologist focusing on technology. Policy analyst for social advocacy groups or governmental agencies. || SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, HASS Fellowship ||