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CarlsonRebeccaLynn

    Department of Information Sciences and Arts　Associate Professor
    Bio-Nano Electronics Research Center　Researcher
    Course of Information Sciences and Arts　Associate Professor
Last Updated :2025/06/06

Researcher Information

J-Global ID

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of bioscience and bioinformatics, STS and computer programming, environmental anthropology, medical anthropology, media anthropology, globalization, nationalism, qualitative methods, Japanese society   

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Sociology/history of science and technology
  • Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore

Education

  • 2008/08 - 2018/04  University of Pittsburgh  PhD: Cultural Anthropology
  • 2004/01 - 2006/05  Temple University  MA: Visual Anthropology
  • 2000/09 - 2004/01  Temple University  MFA: Film and Media Arts
  • 1993/09 - 1996/05  San Francisco State University  BA: Creative Writing/English

Published Papers

Books etc

  • Critical Thinking Tools for the Content in English Classroom
    (Single work)Tokyo Academic Publishing 2020

Conference Activities & Talks

  • “Problematic, ambiguous, humbling”: between scientific ethos and everyday experimental practice  [Not invited]
    Rebecca Carlson
    Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction  2025/02
  • Degrowing and Regrowing Data in Bioscientific Practice  [Not invited]
    Rebecca Carlson
    European Association of the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)  2024/07
  • Data as Kin: Relatedness and Material Exchange in Bioscientific Practice in Japan  [Not invited]
    Rebecca Carlson
    BIO-CONTEXT Workshop  2024/04  Oral presentation
  • Can Japan Contribute to Global, Open Science?
    Rebecca Carlson
    Anthropology of Japan in Japan  2023/12  Oral presentation
  • Algorithms and Oracles: On the Parallels of Digital Work and Mechanical Divination  [Not invited]
    Rebecca Carlson; Jonathan Corliss; Heikki Wilenius
    Society for Social Studies of Science  2023/11  Oral presentation
  • Infrastructuring (Trans)National Bioscience: From Humans to Cells to Code in a Japanese Laboratory  [Invited]
    Rebecca Carlson
    Discursive and Material Dimensions of the Digital Transformation  2023/09  Invited oral presentation
  • What is Anthropological Analysis Good For?: Additive-ity in Studies of/with Bioscience
    Rebecca Carlson
    German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA)  2023/07  Oral presentation
  • Gathering Ethnographic Data in/from Sociotechnical Assemblages: A Scalular Perspective on Research Design  [Invited]
    Rebecca Carlson
    University of Vechta  2023/07  Invited oral presentation
  • Testing to Circulate: Addressing the Epistemic Gaps of Software Testing
    Rebecca Carlson; Tamara Gupper; Anja Klein; Mace Ojala; Sarah Thanner; Libuše Hannah Veprek
    STShub.de 2023 Circulations  2023/03  Oral presentation
  • Un/settling Objects of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences
    Rebecca Carlson
    American Anthropological Association  2022/11  Public symposium
  • Public/Private/Profit Science? Infrastructures of Secrecy in Transnational Bioinformatics
    Rebecca Carlson
    Digital Futures in the Making: Imaginaries, Politics, and Materialities (German Society for Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies)  2022/09  Oral presentation
  • Governing Transnational Biomedical Research: The Biopolitics of Extraction Between Ghana and Japan
    Rebecca Carlson; Damien Droney
    European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA)  2022/07  Oral presentation
  • Disappearing Scientific Vision: Computational Methods and Infrastructures of Code in Bioscientific Practice
    Rebecca Carlson
    European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)  2022/07  Oral presentation
  • At the “Hinge” of Future Fictions and Everyday Failings: Ethnographic Interventions in AI Systems
    Rebecca Carlson; Libuše Hannah Vepřek
    Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society  2022/06  Oral presentation
  • Bioscience as a Borderland: Cells, Infrastructure and Code in Translation  [Invited]
    Rebecca Carlson
    RUSTlab, Science & Technology Studies group at Ruhr-University Bochum  2022/04  Public discourse
  • Cells in the Border Zone: The Translation of Bioscientific Data in Laboratory Practice
    Rebecca Carlson
    RAI Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology  2022/01  Oral presentation
  • Divergent Scientific Truth-making and Liminality in the Time of COVID
    Rebecca Carlson
    American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting  2021/11  Oral presentation
  • Remotely Rewilding: Precariously Collaborating During the COVID Pandemic
    Carlson, Rebecca; Stirling, Fiona
    AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research  2021/10  Oral presentation
  • In and Out of Bioinformatics
    Rebecca Carlson
    Methodologies for Code in Ethnographic Practice, From Theory to Practice  2021/07  Oral presentation
  • Bioscience in the Age of "Dropping a Hash": COVID-19, Amateurs in Twitterverse and the Possibilities for Public Global Science
    Rebecca Carlson
    International Society for Ethnology and Folklore  2021/06  Oral presentation
  • Online with Bioinformatic Scientists in Tokyo: Doing Digital Ethnography in a Pandemic
    Rebecca Carlson
    Vienna Anthropology Days  2020/10  Oral presentation
  • The Subject Making the Subject: Japanese Brand Nationalism and American Otaku in Japan  [Not invited]
    Rebecca Carlson
    Anthropologies of Media and Mobility  2017/09  Oral presentation

Research Grants & Projects

  • Globalizing Basic Science Research in Japan: A Qualitative Analysis
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science：Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Date (from‐to) : 2020/04 -2023/03 
    Author : Rebecca Carlson; Jonathan Corliss
  • “More Japanese Than Japanese”: Subjectivation in the Age of Brand Nationalism and the Internet
    Date (from‐to) : 2012/05 -2018/04
  • Turning Japanese: Video Game Fandom, Transnationalism, and the Production of Expertise
    Date (from‐to) : 2004/01 -2006/04 
    Author : Rebecca Carlson

Academic Contribution

  • Finding the Potential for Junk in Technological Rupture, Breakdown and Repair
    Date (from-to) :2024/07
    Role: Planning etc
    Type: Academic society etc
    Organizer, responsible person: Rebecca Carlson
  • Un/settling Objects of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences
    Date (from-to) :2022/11/09
    Role: Planning etc
    Type: Academic society etc
    Organizer, responsible person: Rebecca Carlson
  • Examining Collaborations in Molecular Research Infrastructures
    Date (from-to) :2022/01/18
    Role: Planning etc
    Type: Academic society etc
    Organizer, responsible person: Rebecca Carlson, Ignacia Arteaga, Henry Llewellyn, Libuše Hannah Veprek
  • Methodologies for Code in Ethnographic Practice, From Theory to Practice
    Date (from-to) :2021/07/02-2021/07/03
    Role: Planning etc
    Type: Academic society etc
  • Special Issue Journal Editor, Games and Culture 6(1): 2011
    Date (from-to) :2011
    Role: Planning etc
    Type: Review
  • Special Issue Journal Editor, Transformative Works and Cultures, 2: 2009
    Date (from-to) :2009
    Role: Planning etc
    Type: Review

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