Studying Those Who Study Us

An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence

By: Diana E. Forsythe, David J. Hess (Editor)

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Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about users, and about knowledge more broadly, when they build software? How should humans interact with computers, and how do they, really? Why do computing firms hire anthropologists to study human-computer interaction, and what do anthropologists find once they are hired? And how and why are traditional power asymmetries between men and women produced and maintained in engineering firms and laboratories?

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"Diane Forsythe pioneered the field of the anthropology of artificial intelligence, and the essays in this collection are crucially important for three reasons. First, they have historical value as groundbreaking work in a new field. Second, they have enduring value for other scholars, notably the burgeoning number of social scientists studying computer cultures. And Forsythe's careful discussions of her methods, and the interesting reflexivity she worked out, will serve as important models for future anthropologists and others. The editor has done an outstanding job of selecting, ordering, and introducing the essays." - Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan "The essays posthumously collected here are the fruits of the later career of a fine anthropologist and a sensitive, skilled ethnographer... Forsythe's collection will interest a broad audience concerned with the production of software and the behavior of teams. Highly and unreservedly recommended for all collections." - Choice "[A] thought-provoking book ...[It] reveals an intriguing insight into the tacit assumptions made in the fields of artificial intelligence and current anthropology." - Science Books and Film

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Editor's Introduction	p. xi
Editor's Note	p. xxvii
Blaming the User in Medical Informatics: The Cultural Nature of Scientific Practice	p. 1
The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence	p. 16
Engineering Knowledge: The Construction of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence	p. 35
Knowing Engineers? A Response to Forsythe	p. 59
STS (Re)constructs Anthropology: Reply to Fleck	p. 66
Artificial Intelligence Invents Itself: Collective Identity and Boundary Maintenance in an Emergent Scientific Discipline	p. 75
New Bottles, Old Wine: Hidden Cultural Assumptions in a Computerized Explanation System for Migraine Sufferers	p. 93
Ethics and Politics of Studying Up in Technoscience	p. 119
Studying Those Who Study Us: Medical Informatics Appropriates Ethnography	p. 132
"It's Just a Matter of Common Sense": Ethnography as Invisible Work	p. 146
Disappearing Women in the Social World of Computing	p. 163
George and Sandra's Daughter, Robert's Girl: Doing Ethnographic Research in My Parents' Field	p. 183
Additional Publications	p. 197
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 229
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