Breslin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 53277 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Breslin |
| SOBRENOME | Breslin |
| ASSINATURA | BRESLIN |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4728-4085 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
What to Submit to the JBA? That Is the Question
It is no surprise that editing an academic journal is hard work.Editors are, if not famous, then at least notorious for remarking on the rigors of publishing article after article, issue after issue.When one manuscript is <inally ready, another is usually already waiting in the wings, to be read, screened, reviewed, revised, edited, laid out, proofread, and uploaded.But the truth -the real truth, if you will -is that it is, above all, a privilege…
Business Anthropology
The Omnipresence of Business - and, Potentially, Business Anthropology
Writing this brief editorial from the city of Copenhagen in Denmark, the summer is :inally upon us.The sun is shining, and the temperatures have risen to almost 30 degrees Celsius.As always in Copenhagen, bikes are out, :illing the streets of what is often celebrated as one of the most bikefriendly cities in the world.What is not so usual, however, is that many of the cyclists are wearing the red national team shirt of the Danish football team, b…
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God
Despite often heroic commitments to immersion in a given field context, and despite frequent theoretical fluency in analysis, anthropologists rarely show the steps by which they analyze and interpret their data. Because of this, the validity of anthropological analyses is generally difficult to assess, the reinterpretation of existing studies is often a dubious proposition, and the ethical implications of research sampling strategies are often im…
Computing trust
What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this article explores what it means for computer science students to write ‘good code.’ In doing so, it explores the values that underlie ideas of trust in the computer science discipline. The article shows how, as students learn to become ‘good at’ writing code that is technic…
Computerantropologi
Computerantropologi indebærer anvendelsen af teknikker og metoder fra data- logi, datavidenskab og digitale metoder til dataindsamling og analyse. Compu- terantropologien komplementerer traditionelle antropologiske og etnografiske metoder samt analytisk og teoretisk tænkning inden for disciplinen. Selvom computerantropologi stadig er et gryende felt, rummer den et stort potentiale for at kombinere digital antropologi, digitale metoder og mere kva…
In Search of Newness
In the past decades, it has been hard to ignore that a key characteristic of business is an unmistakable preoccupation, perhaps even obsession, with newness.In all corners of business, newness -along with its many allied notions such as creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are centered around newness in one way or another -is considered to be absolutely critical for survival."Create/Innovate or die.This is the takenfor-grant…
Business, Broadly Understood
Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’
This article discusses the epistemological challenges of contending with hegemonic norms while ‘studying up’. In particular, I discuss the challenges that I faced in following feminist and queer approaches to gender while conducting fieldwork on the gendered norms and values produced through undergraduate computer science education in Singapore. These approaches suggest critical questions about the construction of computer science knowledge and o…
Back to Copenhagen
Ever since Marcel Mauss wrote about the gift and Bronislaw Malinowski about the Kula, it has been something of an anthropological truism that things have social lives. As many readers of this journal will know, Arjun Appadurai (1986) made this particularly clear with his seminal anthology The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. While we will not rehearse the argument of the book here nor elaborate on its significance for t…
Affective Publics
In Denmark, as with elsewhere in the world, Twitter has emerged as an important arena of public discussion on issues relating to COVID-19 pandemic, including the handling of the crisis by state authorities and health institutions. Based on approximately 140,000 tweets harvested from Danish Twitter in the period between 24 February and 28 April 2020, this report explores how tweeting about mis/trust on this digital platform can be understood as a …
Metaphors of Change
Engineering education is often decontextualized, even as it is suffused with metaphoric language and sociocultural norms and beliefs. Efforts to embed social context and sociotechnical content in engineering education are often met with resistance. We contribute to conversations about how to change dominant knowledge regimes by detailing the process by which a team grapples with efforts to change technically-focused curricula and practices in eng…
Bell Curve-Guden
I denne position vil jeg se nærmere på Bell Curve-guden og de studerendes relationer til den/dem for at illustrere forskellige måder at forstå og bruge digitale data på i antropologien
Research ethics for mobile sensing device use by vulnerable populations
Musical Boundaries
This article explores the boundaries that are constructed around traditional Newfoundland music and musicianship, focusing on the relationships among place, tradition, and history. Drawing primarily on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during the summer of 2009, I explore how some musicians trace historical and place-based connections based on their experiences playing Newfoundland music on the Island and with particular people. In doing so, these…
Affective Publics
In Denmark, as with elsewhere in the world, Twitter has emerged as an important arena of public discussion on issues relating to COVID-19 pandemic, including the handling of the crisis by state authorities and health institutions. Based on approximately 140,000 tweets harvested from Danish Twitter in the period between 24 February and 28 April 2020, this report explores how tweeting about mis/trust on this digital platform can be understood as a …
Research ethics for mobile sensing device use by vulnerable populations
Metaphors of Change
Engineering education is often decontextualized, even as it is suffused with metaphoric language and sociocultural norms and beliefs. Efforts to embed social context and sociotechnical content in engineering education are often met with resistance. We contribute to conversations about how to change dominant knowledge regimes by detailing the process by which a team grapples with efforts to change technically-focused curricula and practices in eng…
Computing trust
What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this article explores what it means for computer science students to write ‘good code.’ In doing so, it explores the values that underlie ideas of trust in the computer science discipline. The article shows how, as students learn to become ‘good at’ writing code that is technic…
Musical Boundaries
This article explores the boundaries that are constructed around traditional Newfoundland music and musicianship, focusing on the relationships among place, tradition, and history. Drawing primarily on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during the summer of 2009, I explore how some musicians trace historical and place-based connections based on their experiences playing Newfoundland music on the Island and with particular people. In doing so, these…
Research ethics for mobile sensing device use by vulnerable populations
Bell Curve-Guden
I denne position vil jeg se nærmere på Bell Curve-guden og de studerendes relationer til den/dem for at illustrere forskellige måder at forstå og bruge digitale data på i antropologien
Metaphors of Change
Engineering education is often decontextualized, even as it is suffused with metaphoric language and sociocultural norms and beliefs. Efforts to embed social context and sociotechnical content in engineering education are often met with resistance. We contribute to conversations about how to change dominant knowledge regimes by detailing the process by which a team grapples with efforts to change technically-focused curricula and practices in eng…
Studying Gender While ‘Studying Up’
This article discusses the epistemological challenges of contending with hegemonic norms while ‘studying up’. In particular, I discuss the challenges that I faced in following feminist and queer approaches to gender while conducting fieldwork on the gendered norms and values produced through undergraduate computer science education in Singapore. These approaches suggest critical questions about the construction of computer science knowledge and o…
Back to Copenhagen
Ever since Marcel Mauss wrote about the gift and Bronislaw Malinowski about the Kula, it has been something of an anthropological truism that things have social lives. As many readers of this journal will know, Arjun Appadurai (1986) made this particularly clear with his seminal anthology The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. While we will not rehearse the argument of the book here nor elaborate on its significance for t…
Affective Publics
In Denmark, as with elsewhere in the world, Twitter has emerged as an important arena of public discussion on issues relating to COVID-19 pandemic, including the handling of the crisis by state authorities and health institutions. Based on approximately 140,000 tweets harvested from Danish Twitter in the period between 24 February and 28 April 2020, this report explores how tweeting about mis/trust on this digital platform can be understood as a …
Computerantropologi
Computerantropologi indebærer anvendelsen af teknikker og metoder fra data- logi, datavidenskab og digitale metoder til dataindsamling og analyse. Compu- terantropologien komplementerer traditionelle antropologiske og etnografiske metoder samt analytisk og teoretisk tænkning inden for disciplinen. Selvom computerantropologi stadig er et gryende felt, rummer den et stort potentiale for at kombinere digital antropologi, digitale metoder og mere kva…
In Search of Newness
In the past decades, it has been hard to ignore that a key characteristic of business is an unmistakable preoccupation, perhaps even obsession, with newness.In all corners of business, newness -along with its many allied notions such as creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are centered around newness in one way or another -is considered to be absolutely critical for survival."Create/Innovate or die.This is the takenfor-grant…
Business, Broadly Understood
The Omnipresence of Business - and, Potentially, Business Anthropology
Writing this brief editorial from the city of Copenhagen in Denmark, the summer is :inally upon us.The sun is shining, and the temperatures have risen to almost 30 degrees Celsius.As always in Copenhagen, bikes are out, :illing the streets of what is often celebrated as one of the most bikefriendly cities in the world.What is not so usual, however, is that many of the cyclists are wearing the red national team shirt of the Danish football team, b…
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God
Despite often heroic commitments to immersion in a given field context, and despite frequent theoretical fluency in analysis, anthropologists rarely show the steps by which they analyze and interpret their data. Because of this, the validity of anthropological analyses is generally difficult to assess, the reinterpretation of existing studies is often a dubious proposition, and the ethical implications of research sampling strategies are often im…
Computing trust
What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this article explores what it means for computer science students to write ‘good code.’ In doing so, it explores the values that underlie ideas of trust in the computer science discipline. The article shows how, as students learn to become ‘good at’ writing code that is technic…
Business Anthropology
What to Submit to the JBA? That Is the Question
It is no surprise that editing an academic journal is hard work.Editors are, if not famous, then at least notorious for remarking on the rigors of publishing article after article, issue after issue.When one manuscript is <inally ready, another is usually already waiting in the wings, to be read, screened, reviewed, revised, edited, laid out, proofread, and uploaded.But the truth -the real truth, if you will -is that it is, above all, a privilege…
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