The ISTAS 2010 Paper: "Social-Technical Issues Facing the Humancentric RFID Implantee Sub-Culture"

In June 2010, at IEEE ISTAS 2010 in Wollongong, New South Wales (the International Symposium on Technology and Society, held June 7–9), I did more than give a keynote. The symposium proceedings carried a peer-reviewed paper I co-authored with Katina Michael and M. G. Michael of the University of Wollongong: "Social-Technical Issues Facing the Humancentric RFID Implantee Sub-culture through the Eyes of Amal Graafstra." It runs from page 498 to page 516, nineteen pages in the published record.

The keynote was the talk; this was the paper. A keynote is spoken once and gone; a proceedings paper is the citable, peer-reviewed artifact that outlives the room, and this one is my deepest formal treatment of the implantee subculture I had been living inside since 2005. My co-authors ran the University of Wollongong research group that had been studying humancentric implants for years, and Katina Michael edited the ISTAS 2010 proceedings. With my name first on a paper written alongside two academics who had spent that time observing the phenomenon from the outside, the subculture got described, for once, partly through the eyes of someone inside it, which is what the title says.

For the archive: Amal Graafstra, Katina Michael, and M. G. Michael, "Social-Technical Issues Facing the Humancentric RFID Implantee Sub-culture through the Eyes of Amal Graafstra," 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, pp. 498–516. DOI 10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514602.