CURRICULUM VITAE - Ana Viseu

Bio: (updated Jan 2009)

Ana Viseu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at York University, where she is also affiliated with two graduate programs: Communication & Culture, and Science and Technology Studies Program. She is interested in the interactions of humans and emergent technologies and how these interactions are reifying and reformulating notions of identity, embodiment, agency and privacy. In her research she examines these issues through an analysis of the practices of development and use of emergent (and contested) technologies, from both theoretical and material perspectives. She has so far critically examined technologies-such as nanotechnology, wearable computing, robotics and currently nanomedicine-that posit the body as the interface between biology and information. Ana received her doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2005. Her thesis critically examined the multiple meanings of physical and cognitive augmentation through wearable computers, from the visionary discourses of developers to the conflicted experience of implementation on the ground. She then worked as a Research Associate at Cornell University with the Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) and the Department of Science and Technology Studies. While at Cornell she was the “in-house” social scientist at CNF, and collaborated with practitioners to examine the social and ethical dimensions of nanotechnology research and development. Ana has published in a number of venues, including the journals of Ethics & Information Technology, and Information, Communication and Society. She is currently working on two forthcoming publications on wearable computing and nanotechnology will be submitted to Science and Social Studies of Science. She is also affiliated with the Center for Social Studies of the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

Address: Department of Communications, 3007 TEL Bldg., York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON  M3J 1P3. [email: aviseu_at_yorku.ca]

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