NDU · Theme 04
Digital Anthropology & Human-Centred AI
Everyday digital life is where AI is actually encountered: in feeds, forms, chat interfaces and the small negotiations people make to get through a system.
Current questions
- How do people domesticate AI tools into existing routines?
- What workarounds reveal about the gap between designed and lived use?
- What would it mean for a system to adapt to people rather than the reverse?
Where it is being worked out
Projects
Case studies
- Algorithms of Trust
The imagined user in policy, tested against lived digital narratives.
Reading & direction
Next direction
Design-facing translations of ethnographic findings for product and service teams.
Reading
- Daniel Miller — The Comfort of Things
- Genevieve Bell & Paul Dourish — Divining a Digital Future
- Ruha Benjamin — Race After Technology
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