Hello,

My name is Peter Raskovsky, I’m a fourth year Anthropology major. During the summer last year I took Living Technologies course (learning how to flint knapp) which started me thinking about how culture and society are formed by the technologies they find important and vice versa. How cultural norms affect which techs become important, or are ignored. My main focus up to this point has been on archaeology with an eye towards working in a museum or some sort of archiving. In the Media and creative practices class last year I discovered media archaeology which has become a bit of a focus for me. Last semester I discovered that there was a Technology and society minor. So, here I am. It’s fun to change the focus of your degree near the end!

I wouldn’t consider myself a particularly tech savvy person, the actual production and creation of tech is beyond me, and I have a unfounded fear of the cloud for some reason (I just don’t trust it, probably because I don’t understand it.) I’m more interested in the societal and cultural aspects of tech.

As far as what I’d like to study. Identity forming, and how we communicate and hide said identity is fascinating to me. Augmented reality, social networking, and even 3D printing, I think, all can and do have an impact on these things.