The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science

A podcast by Paul Spain

Categories:

Education Society & Culture

133 Episodes

  1. Dan Podjed: Working to grow a vibrant community of applied anthropologists in Europe; (applied) events, projects, symposiums; re-thinking (business) ethnography; barriers and opportunities for the app

    Published: 5/21/2018

  2. Stephen Rea and Taylor Nelms: An anthropological conversation about Mobile Money and Financial Technologies

    Published: 5/14/2018

  3. Betsy DiSalvo: More than just play, or the significance of ethnicity, race, gender and sociality in how young people engage with video games, education and technology.

    Published: 5/7/2018

  4. Erin B. Taylor: Researching mobile money in Haiti & The Netherlands; the ethics and methods for asking people about money; regulation and financial design

    Published: 4/30/2018

  5. Amy Sheppard, Xero: What is an insight, how to build great design teams & what she looks for in a researcher role

    Published: 4/23/2018

  6. Susanna Helen Trnka: The many ways in which people make medical technologies work for them; how to approach building multifaceted medical apps; what’s next for a student of anthropology

    Published: 4/16/2018

  7. Nimmi Rangaswamy: Stories from India on mobile internet & Facebook use of slum youth; technology as a force for good; the access & (corporate) ethics of technology

    Published: 4/9/2018

  8. Kevin Lee: Working with insight across organisational silos and on being human inside a company role

    Published: 4/2/2018

  9. Crystal Abidin: Influencers, youth online and the intersections of social media and traditional media

    Published: 3/26/2018

  10. Shikha Desai: Microsoft. Learning about Product Design, AI and working with Social Scientists

    Published: 3/17/2018

  11. Nick Seaver: Understanding Taste, Algorithms and Context in Music Recommender Systems

    Published: 3/17/2018

  12. Sam Ladner: On the emotional bonds we build with Software, Hardware and each other

    Published: 3/17/2018

  13. Danya Glabau: From patients to users and the fears and hopes of managing ones health

    Published: 3/17/2018

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If you want to understand how social scientists’ study human behaviour, how industry innovates or want to know more about how they can successfully work together and enhance each other, then you have come to the right place! Join our hosts as they engage with anthropologists, other researchers and industry specialists from all over the world. The discussions will be about their specific work in understanding people and how they apply that understanding to advance industry, scholarship and/or larger societal goals. Whether you are a professional working in business and/or academia, still doing your studies or just simply interested in this topic, thank you for being here, and we hope you enjoy it!