About
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and tech consultant researching prosthetic culture. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Case wrote her thesis on cell phones and their technosocial sites of engagement.
She has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She presented an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Portland’s Webvisions 2009 and Gnomedex 9.0 and Keynoted Portland’s Open Source Bridge with a speech on Cyborg Citizens. She’s been a guest lecturer at Lewis & Clark College, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon State University’s School of Continuing Education. She formerly worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. In 2010 she was named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Tech.
Case specializes in information architecture, usability, online productivity, strategy, and ground-breaking communication methods. She utilizes qualitative/quantitative analysis and ethnographic methods in order to determine future idea/business/organizational developments. She employs anthropological methods to study the interaction between humans and computers. She is available for speaking engagements, workshops, data aggregation, blog consulting, and online efficiency training. In December 2008, she founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and computers.
Case blogs at http://oakhazelnut.com and can be found online at http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic.
Amber received her degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College with a thesis on “The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial sites of Engagement”.
Speaking Engagements
Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference [Sep 2008]
- The Interactive convergence conference is designed for thought leaders, executives, strategists, influencers, mavericks and cultural creatives from a variety of creative industries and disciplines,
- PPT of the Inverge Presentation on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/caseorganic/inverge-08-from-telephone-to-tweetup-presentation.
MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 3 [Nov 21 2008]
- Futures of Entertainment is organized around a “talk-show” style model, with panelists participating in a moderated discussion. Over the last two years this produced great, thorough treatments of the subject matter, getting industry and academic speakers together but avoiding product pitches.
Videos of Futures of Entertainment on MIT’s TechTV:
Ignite Portland [Nov 2008]
Ignite Boulder [Dec 2008]
Projects
CyborgCamp [Dec 6 2008]
CyborgCamp was an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.
CyborgCamp was conceived almost entirely on Twitter and organized via wiki. Much of the buzz was generated through multiple media channels.
It’s aim was to utilize many communication channels, such as Twitter, Flickr, UstreamTV, Video and Audio recordings and live chats displayed on the screen.
Web Analytics Wednesday
Tracking multiple KPI’s, ect. across multiple social media sites.
Webvisions
Open Source Bridge – Keynote
You can follow Amber on Twitter @caseorganic. Or you may E-mail her at caseorganic@gmail.com.
