Grant Jun Otsuki

@otsuki3c
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Cultural anthropologist at the University of Tokyo. STS, Anthro of Technoscience, Japan, VR/AR/Interfaces. Associate editor, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society.
Webhttps://www.gjotsuki.net/
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If you're in Japan for ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama, please have a look at this workshop I'm helping to organize.

Submissions due by the end of March.

https://digitalcommunicationecologies.wordpress.com/

Digital communication ecologies moving beyond human-centric replication
This agenda-setting workshop will bring together HCI researchers and designers with colleagues from sociology, media and communications to generate an interdisciplinary research agenda for digital communication beyond human-centric replication.

Digital communication ecologies moving beyond human-centric replication

EuroHaptics 2024 Workshop

Digital communication ecologies moving beyond human-centric replication
*** It turns out Google Groups is more terrible than I remember.
You can join the newly de-Google group here: https://groups.io/g/anth-in-tokyo
anth-in-tokyo groups.io Group

Welcome to Anth-in-Tokyo Google group. This is a private discussion group for anthropology and nearby scholars in Japan and the Tokyo area to share information about things that are happening, but mostly just to stay in touch. This group is invitation only, but feel free to let others around you know about it. The group is managed by Grant Otsuki ( [email protected] ; [email protected] ). Contact me for any questions or complaints. Posts can be in English or Japanese.

Japan anthropologists and STSers: I've started an informal mailing list to share information about things happening in Tokyo, and to keep in touch. Please feel free to share the link to anyone who might be interested.

I'm also continuing the periodic meetups, so if you're interested in those, please join!

https://groups.google.com/g/anth-in-tokyo/c/[email protected]

Anth-in-Tokyo - Google Groups

What did I learn? ChatGPT is better than Turing at arithmetic. But Turing is better at chess.
More...
I happened to be reading Alan Turing's paper on the
#turingtest and tried asking his sample questions to ChatGPT. Here are his examples, followed by ChatGPT's responses.

A new episode of Random Trek is available for your listening pleasure!

This time around I talk with @otsuki3c about “The Siege of AR-558" (DS9).

https://www.theincomparable.com/randomtrek/257/

"The Siege of AR-558" (DS9) with Grant Jun Otsuki (Random Trek 257)

Grant Jun Otsuki, a cultural anthropologist, joins Scott to discuss

The Incomparable

In honor of Anthrodendum, I've put together a short post on how to keep track of what anthro blogs are out there using RSS and a newsreader.

Download a newsreader and the linked OPML file to be instantly subscribed to 90+ anth blogs.

https://www.gjotsuki.net/reconstructing-the-anthro-blogosphere-with-rss/

Reconstructing the Anthro Blogosphere with RSS

To start, let me pour one out for Anthrodendum, the anthropology blog that may not have started it all, but which was for many the one pre-social media hub for anthropology online. When I was a gra…

Grant Jun Otsuki
An excellent post by my colleague Lorena Gibson on how she teaches her first-year anthropology post: "how to anthropology" and "how to university." https://anthropod.net/2023/12/20/teaching-how-to-anthropology-alongside-how-to-university-in-an-introductory-cultural-anthropology-class/
Teaching ‘how to anthropology’ alongside ‘how to university’ in an introductory cultural anthropology class

I have taught our large introductory cultural anthropology course (ANTH 101) on and off since 2014, and every couple of years I redesign it based on conversations with colleagues, research into lea…

Lorena Gibson
Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access

A study reveals that academic megajournals ‘Scientific Reports’ and ‘Nature Communications’ have cornered the market

EL PAÍS English