Here, you can find a list of recent invited talks, keynotes, conference presentations, media appearances, and so on. Older links are, unfortunately, likely to be dead. If you’d like to interview me or invite me to speak at your event, please do reach out.
2026
Jan 30 I presented some of my work on attention measurement to the Tufts STS Lunch Seminar.
2025
May 23 I zoomed in to the “When Technologies Become Traps” workshop at Oxford, presenting some work on the media theory of mouse jigglers.
May 12 I gave a keynote at the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Learning Week, on proxies for attention.
Apr 25 I participated in the Shady Subjects workshop at Cornell, presenting some work in progress on online discourse about the ethics of using mouse jigglers.
Apr 17 At the NYU Anthropology Colloquium, I presented some work on how to trick attention measurement systems.
Apr 11 At the Northeastern School of Law, I participated in a workshop on “The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical, and Legal Questions.”
Mar 6 I presented on algorithmic interpretability in the Cornell Music Department Colloquium series.
2024
Dec 17 At Goethe University in Frankfurt, I presented some research on mouse jigglers at “After Surveillance.”
Nov 20 I participated in a roundtable on cyborg anthropology at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Tampa.
Nov 15 I presented work on driver monitoring systems and the technical construction of attentiveness at the Agency and Attention workshop at the Royal Danish Academy of Science & Letters.
Nov 13 At the Center for Tracking and Society at the University of Copenhagen, I spoke about mouse jigglers.
Nov 5 At the University of Bergen in Norway I gave a talk about attention simulation devices.
Sep 20 For NYU’s Center for Data Science, I presented in conversation with Kyunghyun Cho and Grace Lindsay on the origins of “attention” in neural networks.
Aug 6 Steffen Hornemann interviewed me for Anthropod, the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s podcast, about algorithms and anthropology.
May 15 I presented in the University of Amsterdam’s Critical AI Studies online seminar series, on my book about music recommendation.
Apr 28 I gave the keynote lecture at Amherst College, for the Five College Ethnomusicology Certificate Celebration, which is a wonderful event for graduating ethnomusicology students to present their work.
Apr 22 For the University of Cambridge’s master’s program in AI Ethics & Society, I gave a guest lecture.
Apr 18 Spencer Wright hosted a Scope of Work reading group discussion of my book on music recommendation, with a long tangent into some much older work on player pianos.
Mar 31 I was part of a panel on Constructive Dialogue in the Age of Social Media at Northeastern.
Mar 22 Alongside fellow guests Kyle Booten, Nan Z. Da, and Eric Drott, I was invited by Ritwik Banerji to present in the Machine as Human/Human as Machine Symposium at Iowa State University.
Mar 16 I was discussant for a panel on automation and infrastructure in sonic media at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies meeting in Boston.
Mar 8 I gave the keynote lecture at the Music+Data Symposium at UCLA.
Feb 23 At the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute, I gave a talk about my work on music recommender systems.
Feb 21 For The Lantern, an undergraduate STS club at Tufts, I presented from my book on music recommendation.
Feb 5 I spoke in the UC San Diego Science Studies Colloquium about care and control in algorithmic systems.
Jan 15 I gave the annual Digital Anthropology Lecture at University College London.
2023
Dec 6 Alongside Maria Eriksson and Fred Turner, I was a keynote speaker at Culture en Régime Numérique, a conference in Paris hosted by the French Ministry of Culture, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Nov 18 With Anna Weichselbraun, I presented work on anthropological filing culture at the American Anthropological Association meeting in Toronto.
Nov 17 At the American Anthropological Association meeting in Toronto, I was discussant for a panel on digital selves and datafication.
Oct 23 A Danish podcast, Dagsorden, interviewed me (in English!) about recommendation algorithms.
Oct 18 I co-organized a workshop on responsible recommender systems at the Association of Internet Researchers meeting in Philadelphia.
Sep 8 At Harvard, I was a discussant for the Just Computation workshop, which explored social and historical perspectives on calculation in law.
Aug 16 I presented work from my book on music recommendation at Microsoft Research’s New England office.
Jul 26 For an STS class at Mesa Community College, I guest lectured on the ethnographic study of algorithmic systems.
Jul 26 For IDEO CoLab, I gave a short presentation on what makes the attention economy “economic.”
Jun 25 Civics of Technology published a conversation with me about my book.
Apr 20 I was invited by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal to participate in the Life in Pixels series at Notre Dame, in conversation with Bernard Geoghegan about our recent books.
Apr 12 I presented in a panel on the anthropology of attention at the Association of Social Anthropologists conference in London.
Apr 10 I talked recommender systems and traps on the Money 4 Nothing podcast.
Apr 6 For Platypod, the podcast of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, I discussed algorithmic recommendation.
Mar 28 Ryan Anderson interviewed me about ChatGPT and anthropology for Anthrodendum.
Mar 27 I was invited by the anthropology graduate students at Rice University to lead the annual Mutant Anthropologies Salon, giving a lecture about my book and running a graduate workshop on ethnographic attention.
Mar 23 I gave a distinguished lecture at the Center for Digital Social Research at Aarhus University in Denmark, drawing from my book on music recommendation.
Mar 17 I joined the This Machine Kills podcast to talk about algorithms, ethnography, and traps.
Feb 28 I spoke in the Anthropology Department Colloquium series at Brown University about my first book.
Feb 17 I was invited to speak in the Department of Music Colloquium at UC Berkeley, about interpretability in machine listening.
Feb 15 Engineering & Technology magazine interviewed me about my book.
Feb 12 I was a guest on Cursed with Good Ideas.
Feb 2 Mathew Gagné and I discussed my book on New Books in Anthropology.
Jan 30 I appeared on Let’s Get Coffee on WYXR 91.7 FM in Memphis.
Jan 3 Kendall Polidori wrote about my work in Luckbox magazine.
2022
Dec 9 I co-organized “Cultures in AI/AI in Culture“, a workshop at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Nov 28 I was a respondent at the MusAI opening conference at University College London.
Nov 8 Matthew Finch interviewed me about my book for Information Professional.
Nov 4 Tarleton Gillespie and I co-organized a roundtable on algorithmic recommendation at the Association of Internet Researchers meeting in Dublin.
Oct 24 I presented in the STS Research Seminar Series at York University on my first book.
Oct 18 Cody Kommers and I talked about technology and taste on Meaning Lab.
Oct 17 I spoke in the Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium series at Yale.
Oct 7 I participated in an online roundtable on Justice and Content Governance, hosted by the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group at UC Berkeley.
Sep 16 I presented from my book at the Tufts STS Lunch Seminar.
Aug 24 I spoke about traps and algorithms at The Conference, an event for designers and web professionals in Malmö, Sweden. (You can watch a recording of my talk online.)
Jun 3 I co-organized a panel with Sareeta Amrute, Gabriele de Seta, Mathew Gagné, and Madiha Tahir at the Society for Cultural Anthropology meeting, and presented work on attention and the new tech humanism.
May 11 With Darci Sprengel, I co-led an online seminar for the MusAI program at University College London on the ethnography of algorithms and platforms.
Apr 8 I participated in an online roundtable on digital ethnography, hosted by the Rutgers Digital Anthropology Working Group. (You can watch a recording online.)
Mar 28 For the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Colloquium, I presented some work on attentional humanism and the rise of Homo attentus.
Feb 2 I presented in the Durham University (UK) Social Anthropology Seminar, on my book and the ethnographic study of algorithmic systems.
This page only goes back through 2022. For earlier events, see my CV.