John Sherry
Biographic Data
| ID | 101031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Sherry |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherry |
| SIGNATURE | SHERRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Intel Labs |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bodies at Burning Man
I explore the nature of bodies and bodily encounters at the Burning Man Project in the context of art circulation and reception, from the perspective of an anthropologist who is also a poet. My poem probes the interplay of hexis and habit that informs this temporary artworld, focusing both on installed and enacted bodies. Finally, I incorporate complementary retouched field photos to create an enhanced, evocative account of my experience of the s…
Exploring Kid Space in the wild: A preliminary study of multimodal and immersive collaborative play-based learning experiences
Beyond Zoom Fatigue: Ritual and Resilience in Remote Meetings
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
Scale and the Gaze of a Machine
Scale suffuses the work we do and, recently, has us considering an aspect of scale best suited to those with ethnographic training. We've been asked to help with scaling up one of the latest blockbusters in high tech - deep learning. Advances in deep learning have enabled technology to be programmed to not only see who we are by using facial ID systems and hear what we say by using natural language systems; machines are now even programmed to rec…
Scottish Presbyterian networks in Ulster and the Irish House of Commons, 1692 – 1714
Throughout the seventeenth century Ireland gradually came under British control, culminating in the reimplementation and consolidation of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy rule in the aftermath of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688–91. The Irish Parliament became the vehicle for securing the Ascendancy position within eighteenth-century Irish society. Although the Catholic threat never disappeared, some within the Ascendancy focussed their att…
Hope-Focused Interventions in Substance Abuse Counselling
Technology and Independent Living: The Global Aging Experience Project
The abstract is included in the text
Orientations to Video Games Among Gender and Age Groups
Questionnaires were completed by 5th-, 8th-, and 11th-grade public schools students in rural and suburban school districts and by undergraduates at two universities in the United States ( n = 1,242). They were asked about their orientation to video games—the amount of time they played, their motives for doing so, and the game types they preferred—to better understand the context in which effects research might be organized. The conceptual schema …
Joutia: Street vendor entrepreneurship and the informal economy of information and communication technologies in Morocco1
This paper provides an ethnographic and cultural analysis of the 'informal sector' in Morocco. In this age of globalisation, no firm can afford to ignore the vibrant informal sector that makes up the bulk of GDP in many developing economies. And yet, the informal sector is routinely misunderstood and mythologised as 'pimps, drug dealers, counterfeiters and pirates', and is particularly despised by the high tech industry. Based on fieldwork, the a…
It Depends on Where You Sit: Anthropologists’ Involvement with Nanotechnology in Government, University, and Industry Settings
This paper emerged from discussions during and after the spring 2005 SfAA session on anthropology and nanotechnology. The three authors have worked for many years in substantially different institutional settings. Wolfe has worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and currently managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for a generation. David has resided at Michigan State University's anthropology department for e…
Real Work
Ethnography and Internet Time: Ethics, Politics and Poetics
Joutia: Street vendor entrepreneurship and the informal economy of information and communication technologies in Morocco1
This paper provides an ethnographic and cultural analysis of the 'informal sector' in Morocco. In this age of globalisation, no firm can afford to ignore the vibrant informal sector that makes up the bulk of GDP in many developing economies. And yet, the informal sector is routinely misunderstood and mythologised as 'pimps, drug dealers, counterfeiters and pirates', and is particularly despised by the high tech industry. Based on fieldwork, the a…
Beyond Zoom Fatigue: Ritual and Resilience in Remote Meetings
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
Ethnography and Internet Time: Ethics, Politics and Poetics
Scale and the Gaze of a Machine
Scale suffuses the work we do and, recently, has us considering an aspect of scale best suited to those with ethnographic training. We've been asked to help with scaling up one of the latest blockbusters in high tech - deep learning. Advances in deep learning have enabled technology to be programmed to not only see who we are by using facial ID systems and hear what we say by using natural language systems; machines are now even programmed to rec…
Real Work
Ethnography and Internet Time: Ethics, Politics and Poetics
It Depends on Where You Sit: Anthropologists’ Involvement with Nanotechnology in Government, University, and Industry Settings
This paper emerged from discussions during and after the spring 2005 SfAA session on anthropology and nanotechnology. The three authors have worked for many years in substantially different institutional settings. Wolfe has worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and currently managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for a generation. David has resided at Michigan State University's anthropology department for e…
Orientations to Video Games Among Gender and Age Groups
Questionnaires were completed by 5th-, 8th-, and 11th-grade public schools students in rural and suburban school districts and by undergraduates at two universities in the United States ( n = 1,242). They were asked about their orientation to video games—the amount of time they played, their motives for doing so, and the game types they preferred—to better understand the context in which effects research might be organized. The conceptual schema …
Joutia: Street vendor entrepreneurship and the informal economy of information and communication technologies in Morocco1
This paper provides an ethnographic and cultural analysis of the 'informal sector' in Morocco. In this age of globalisation, no firm can afford to ignore the vibrant informal sector that makes up the bulk of GDP in many developing economies. And yet, the informal sector is routinely misunderstood and mythologised as 'pimps, drug dealers, counterfeiters and pirates', and is particularly despised by the high tech industry. Based on fieldwork, the a…
Technology and Independent Living: The Global Aging Experience Project
The abstract is included in the text
Hope-Focused Interventions in Substance Abuse Counselling
Scottish Presbyterian networks in Ulster and the Irish House of Commons, 1692 – 1714
Throughout the seventeenth century Ireland gradually came under British control, culminating in the reimplementation and consolidation of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy rule in the aftermath of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688–91. The Irish Parliament became the vehicle for securing the Ascendancy position within eighteenth-century Irish society. Although the Catholic threat never disappeared, some within the Ascendancy focussed their att…
Scale and the Gaze of a Machine
Scale suffuses the work we do and, recently, has us considering an aspect of scale best suited to those with ethnographic training. We've been asked to help with scaling up one of the latest blockbusters in high tech - deep learning. Advances in deep learning have enabled technology to be programmed to not only see who we are by using facial ID systems and hear what we say by using natural language systems; machines are now even programmed to rec…
Exploring Kid Space in the wild: A preliminary study of multimodal and immersive collaborative play-based learning experiences
Beyond Zoom Fatigue: Ritual and Resilience in Remote Meetings
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
Bodies at Burning Man
I explore the nature of bodies and bodily encounters at the Burning Man Project in the context of art circulation and reception, from the perspective of an anthropologist who is also a poet. My poem probes the interplay of hexis and habit that informs this temporary artworld, focusing both on installed and enacted bodies. Finally, I incorporate complementary retouched field photos to create an enhanced, evocative account of my experience of the s…
Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Citation (2 works)