The Department of Anthropology will host Nichole Carelock for its 2022–23 Applying Anthropology to Real World Problems Lecture Thursday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom.
Carelock, a qualitative researcher at Meta, will present “Technography: Using Ethnography in Highly Technical Spaces to Reduce Social Harm.”
She will discuss how anthropological skills including ethnography are employed to help understand human-technology interactions. Her talk will draw on her experiences working at Meta and as a special technology focused project director on the presidential transition.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.