Tag: Peer Reviewed

• Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community (in New Media and Society)

  How does a community remain committed to an imagined digital future despite that future’s inherent contradictions? This peer-reviewed article analyzes such a challenge as it was faced by Berlin’s NFT (non-fungible token) enthusiasts. Dominant narratives about NFTs and other blockchain technologies envision a virtual and ostensibly trust-free future, but these enthusiasts’ pursuit of such “trustless…

• The Fashioning of LGBTQ Bankers on Wall Street (Anthropology of Work Review)

  This peer-reviewed article was published in Anthropology of Work Review. It examines the project of US corporate diversity and inclusion as it is experienced by LGBTQ-identified employees on Wall Street. It draws on ethnographic research among junior bankers who participate in Wall Street’s LGBTQ recruitment events and employee networks. Attending to their claims that queer…