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Ramesh Srinivasan
http://rameshsrinivasan.org, twitter: rameshmedia
Department of Information Studies – GSE & IS
222 GSEIS Building – Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
Tel: (310) 206-8320; Fax: (310) 206-4460
srinivasan@ucla.edu
Academic Employment
2005-Present: Assistant Professor (Step V), Department of Information Studies (courtesy: Department of Design|Media Arts), University of California, Los Angeles.
2005 – Lecturer – University of California at San Diego – Winter, 2004-2005: Designing Digital Environments for Culture and Community, Department of Ethnic Studies and College of Art, Culture and Technology.
2002 – 2005: Doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University – Graduate School of Design
2004 – Teaching Fellow, Harvard University – Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies 61r: Physical Computing, Spring 2004
2003 – Teaching Fellow, Harvard University – Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies 60r: Digital Arts: Digital Expression, Fall 2003
2003 – Teaching Fellow, Harvard University – Graduate School of Design 7301: Internet and Architecture, Spring 2003
2002 – MIT Media Lab Asia Fellow
2000-2002 – Research Fellow – MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.
1998: Research Assistant – Organizational Ecology and Social Movement Analyses – Professors Susan Olzak and Michael Hannan – Stanford University, Department of Sociology and Graduate School of Business.
1997-1998: Research Assistant – Social Network Analysis, Stanford University. – Professor Mark Granovetter, Sociology Department
Education
2005: Doctorate in Design Studies, Harvard University
2002: M.S., Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1998: B.S., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University (Graduate with Distinction)
Grants Received
National Science Foundation 2011-2014 $254,000
– 1057137- Science and Society
Division
UCLA Faculty Research Grants 2010-present $5,000
IMLS – Natl Leadership Grant 2009 – present $352,000
Google Grants 2008 – present $12,000
The Christensen Fund 2007-2008 $50,000
(research in Central Asia)
National Science Foundation 2006-2009 $300,000
0621016 – Science and Society
Division
California Institute for IT and 2006-7 $20,500
Telecommunications (Cal IT2),
ICT Development Research
UCLA Academic Senate 2006 $10,000
The Christensen Fund 2006 $20,000
(research in Central Asia)
UC Humanities Research Inst- 2006 – 2008 $20,000
itute, South Asian Web Research
Public Outreach
Podcast Interview – Revolution and Ruin – Shareable Blog, February 2, 2012.
Interview with the Washington Post, December 19, 2011 – Is there Hope for Social Media in North Korea? ; in print, Sunday Edition, December 25, 2011.
Srinivasan, R. “Occupying Physical Space”, Front Page, The Huffington Post, December 2-3, 2011.
Featured Story – on UCLA’s Home Page (Ucla.edu): “Social Media Not To Blame” –Tracing Ramesh Srinivasan’s Research on Technologies and Politics in Egypt, By Cynthia Lee, August 24th – Sept 1st, 2011
Srinivasan, R. “The Net Worth of Open Networks”, Front Page, The Huffington Post, February 15th, 2011.
August, 2011 – National Public Radio – Morning Edition interview on Social Media and Political Movements, with Steve Inskeep
Op/Ed Piece – The Washington Post – Srinivasan, R. “London, Egypt, and the Nature of Social Media”, August 11, 2011
Featured Story – on USC (University of Southern California) Home Page (USC.edu):
“Race and Cyberspace” – By Pamela Johnson – Featuring Ramesh Srinivasan’s Research at USC, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, August 10, 2011.
5 Myths About Social Media, Washington Post, Outlook Section , October 2 2011.
EDITORIAL SERVICES TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (e.g., serving as a reviewer or editor)
Program Committee Member, 2012, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Dublin, Ireland.
I-Conference 2010 Program Committee Member, University of Washington I-School
Associate Editor, “Open Development and ICTs for Development”, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada
ASIST 2011 – Economic, Political and Social Issues Track, Committee Member (chairs: Nadia Caidi and Steven Jackson)
Advisory Board Member, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Initiative in Media Arts and Education, 2010-Present
Proposal Reviewer/Panelist, National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences (2011).
Editorial Board Member, Science, Technology and Human Values (Sage Press)
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of E-Politics.
Editorial Board Member, Information Technologies and International Development Journal (ITID) – MIT Press.
Reviewer, New Media and Society. (editor: Steve Jones)
Reviewer, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (editor: Blaise Cronin)
Reviewer, Library Quarterly (editor: Paul Jaeger)
Reviewer, City and Community (ed: Hilary Silver)
Reviewer, SigDev Conference 2010 – ICTs and Development (editor: Bonnie Nardi)
Reviewer, Science Technology and Human Values. (editors: Geoffrey Bowker and S.L Star)
Reviewer, Information Processing and Management (editor: Tefko Saracevic and Fabio Crestani)
Reviewer, Journal of Documentation (editor: David Bawden)
Reviewer, AAAI (American Association and Artificial Intelligence) Editorial Society
Reviewer, Information Systems Journal (editor: RueyLin Hsiao, National University Singapore)
Reviewer, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Reviewer, CSCW (ACM, Computer Supported Cooperative Work), 2007-08
Reviewer, HICSS (Hawaii IEEE International Conference on Systems Sciences)
Programme Committee Member: CATAC, Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication, 2008.
Invited Reviewer and Panelist, National Science Foundation – Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (2007, 2008, 2009)
Invited Workshop Speaker at NSF-sponsored Techology and Social Participation Meeting, at Xerox PARC – Palo Alto, December, 2009.
Associated Editor, IDRC Canada (World Bank), ICTs, Openness, and International Development, IDRC Press, Forthcoming.
Refereed Scholarly Journal Publications
2012: Srinivasan, R. “Bridges Between Cultural and Digital Worlds in Revolutionary Egypt”, Under Review.
2011: Srinivasan, R. “Re-writing the Cultural Codes of New Media: The Question Concerning Ontology”, Under Review.
2011: Catalani, C., Castaneda, D., Srinivasan, R. and Spielberg, F. “Designing Community Centered Health IT for HIV Prevention in India.”, Journal of Health Communication, under review.
2011: Srinivasan, R., and Fish, A. “Revolutionary Tactics, Media Ecologies, and Repressive States”, in press. Public Culture (anticipated October, 2011 issue)
2011: Srinivasan, R. “Re-thinking Digital Cultures and Divides: The Case for Reflective Media”, The Information Society, accepted for publication.
2011: Juliano, L. and Srinivasan, R. “Tagging ‘it’: Considering how ontologies limit the reading of identity”, accepted for publication, International Journal of Cultural Studies.
2010: Dalal, S., Khodyakov, D., Srinivasan, R., Straus, S. and Adams, J. “ExpertLens: A System for Eliciting Opinions from a Large Pool of Non-Collocated Experts with Diverse Knowledge”, Technology Forecasting and Social Change
2010: Fish, A. and Srinivasan, R. “Digital Labor is the New Killer App “, New Media and Society, accepted for publication.
2010: Srinivasan, R., Boast, R., Becvar, K., and Enote, J. “Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum”, Science Technology and Human Values 35(5), p.735-768.
2009: Becvar, K. and Srinivasan, R. “Indigenous Knowledge and Culturally Responsive methods in Information Research”, Library Quarterly 79(4), p.421-442.
2009: Srinivasan, R., Boast, R., Furner, J. and Bevar, K. Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledges: Moving Past the Traditional Catalog, 25(4), The Information Society, p.265-278.
2009: Srinivasan, Ramesh, Enote, J., Becvar, K., and Boast, R. “Critical and reflective uses of new media technologies in tribal museums”. Museum Management and Curatorship, 24(2): 161-181.
2009: Srinivasan, R., Boast, R., Furner, J., and Becvar, K. “Blobgects: Digital Museum Catalogs and Diverse User Communities “, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 60(4), p.666-678.
2009: Srinivasan, R., Pepe, A., and Rodriguez, M. “A Clustering-Based Semi-Automated Technique to Build Cultural Ontologies”, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 60(3), p.608-620.
2009: Srinivasan, R. and Fish, A. “Internet Authorship: Social and Political Implications Within Kyrgyzstan”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 14, p.559-580.
2007: Shilton, K., and Srinivasan, R., “Partipatory Appraisal and Arrangement for Multicultural Archival Collections ” Archivaria 63, p.87-101.
2007: Srinivasan, R. and Pyati, A. “Diasporic Information Environments: Reframing Immigrant-focused Information Research”, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 58(12), 1734-1744.
2007: Mehra, B., and Srinivasan, R. “The Library-Community Convergence Framework for Community Action: Libraries as Catalysts of Social Change”, Libri, 57, p.123-139.
2007: Boast, R., Bravo, M. and Srinivasan, Ramesh, “Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge”, The Information Society, 23(5), 395-403
2007: Srinivasan, Ramesh, “Ethnomethodological Architectures: Information Systems Driven by Cultural and Community Visions”, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 58(5), 723-733.
2006: Srinivasan, Ramesh, “Where Information Society and Community Voice Intersect”, The Information Society, 22, 355-365.
2006: Srinivasan, Ramesh, “Indigenous, ethnic, and cultural Articulations of New Media”, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(4), 497-518.
2005: Srinivasan, Ramesh and Huang, Jeffrey- “Fluid ontologies for digital museums”, International Journal on Digital Libraries, special issue on Digital Museums 5(3), 193-204.
2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Reconstituting the Urban through Community-Articulated Digital Environments”, Journal of Urban Technology 11(2), p.93-111.
2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Knowledge architectures for cultural narratives”, Journal of Knowledge Management, 8(4), p.65-74.
Other Published Material (Peer-reviewed Chapters, Conference Proceedings)
2009: Wallack, J.S. and Srinivasan, R. “The Local and the Global – Reconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems” – Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS 09), IEEE press.
2008: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “How does one do qualitative internet research that has global relevance? : A critical response”, in “Internet Inquiry: Dialogue Among Scholars.” (eds. Nancy Baym and Anette Markham), Sage Press.
2008: Srinivasan, R. , “Digital Public Spaces: Implications toward Cultural Memory and Participation”, in the proceedings of CATAC (Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication) 2008.
2006: Srinivasan, R. , “A challenging view on the future of global knowledge sharing”, in The Swiss Development News (EZA)
2006: Srinivasan, R., and Shilton, K., “‘The South Asian Web’: An Emerging Community Information System in the South Asian Diaspora” ACM Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (2006), ACM Press (August 2006), http://pdc2006.org/.
2005: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Revolutionizing Information Architectures within Learning-focused web sites” in E-learning and Virtual Science Centers (Idea Group, eds: Subramaniam and Tan)
Older Theses and Refereed Conference Publications (Proceedings)
2006: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Reinvoking Culture and Context in Digital Libraries and Museums” – In Proceedings of the Information Architecture Summit (ASIS), 4/2006 – Vancouver, Canada
2005: Srinivasan, Ramesh, “Communities and Cultural Differentiation: Issues of
Ontologies, Metadata, and Knowledge Representation” – In Proceedings of 4S conference, 9/2005 – Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Tribal Peace – Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Dispersed Native American Communities”, In the Proceedings of International Conference Cultural Heritage and Informatics (ICHIM), 9/2004 – Berlin, Germany
2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Mediation: Indigenous Ontologies and Design” – In proceedings of the 4S EASST 9/2004 Paris, France
2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Creating digital places for culture and community”, Extended Abstract – Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing Conference 9/2004 – Rome, Italy.
2003: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Articulating the Digital Environment via Community-Generated Ontologies”, In the Proceedings of Digital Cities 9/03, (Springer-Verlag) Amsterdam
2003: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Village Voice: A methodology, interface, and evaluation of the collection of cultural heritage material”, In the Proceedings of International Conference Cultural Heritage and Informatics (ICHIM), 9/2003 – Paris, France
2003: Srinivasan, Ramesh – “Village Voice: An architecture for online community exhibitions”, In the Proceedings of Museums and the Web 4/03, Charlotte
2001: Srinivasan, Ramesh, et. al., “PhotoGlas,” In the Proceedings of Conference on Semiotics in Games and New Media 9/01, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Invited Lectures and Presentations
Invited Speaker, RFK Community High School, Media Arts Program, January 12, 2012
Invited Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop, University of Southern California, August 3, 2011
Invited Lecture, March, 2011, Professor Henry Jenkins, Civic Media Symposium, Annenberg School, University of Southern California
Invited Plenary Speaker – Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects, University of Indiana, April 2011.
Invited Keynote Lecture – A digitally diverse future, MERGE Lecture – UNC Greensboro, April 2011
Invited Panelist – Chicago – National Science Foundation, New Configurations of the Virtual and Real, Chair: Geof Bowker and Ronald Cox, March 2011.
Invited Speaker, Technology @ State, United States State Department – “Open Standards and Open Networks”, Febraury 2011.
Invited Plenary Chair – Open Video Conference, Open Video in India, New York, October 2010.
Invited Keynote Lecture – MyLanguage – Culturally Diverse Populations, Digital Media and Social Inclusion, National Library of Australia, Sydney, Australia. August, 2010.
Invited Panelist – Re-imagining the Archive, University of California Los Angeles, November, 2010.
Invited Speaker – Digital Religion, New York University, Center for Religion, Culture, and Media, March 2010, Luce Foundation.
Invited Panelist – Georgia Institute of Technology – National Science Foundation Workshop on ‘Computing at the Margins’, February 2010.
Invited Panelist – Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), National Science Foundation Workshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation, December, 2009 (directed by Ben Shneidermann and Jenny Preece)
Invited Speaker – 2009 – Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter, Brown University, Department of Modern Culture and Media (Mellon Foundation Initiative)
Invited Speaker – ASIST, 2009 – Indigenous Approaches Toward Documentation, Vancouver, Canada.
Invited Speaker – Culture, Information, and New Media – Natural History Museum, London, ESRC Initiative on “Cybergenomics and the Order of Things”, 2009.
I-Conference Speaker/Paper Presentation, 2009, Mismatched Ontologies and ICT Information Systems, Paper Presentation, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Invited Speaker, Ethnography By Design, UC Irvine – Hosted by George Marcus
Plenary Session Speaker – HASTAC II: Techno-Travels
and TeleMobility (with Katherine Hayles, Anna Everett)
Invited speaker – Worldmaking in an Age of New Media, University of Wisconsin.
Invited Workshop Participant – Networking Visual Culture, 2008.
Annenberg Center, USC.
Invited campus-wide speaker, UCLA, Interdisciplinarity and Information: Global Cultures.
Invited Speaker – The Hewlett Foundation: Web 2.0 and Open
Resources – with Kevin Kelley, and others.
Invited Speaker – LAPnet – “How can preservation meet Participation”, Annual Meeting, 2008
4SEASST Conference 2008, Invited Paper Presentation: “Envisioning Grassroots Digital Spaces”, Panel: Mere Innovation (organizer: Lucy Suchman and Cori Hayden)
4SEASST Conference 2008, Organizer and Chair: “Engaging Publics: Configuring Community as Mediated Places” (with Alberto Pepe, Lilly Nguyen and Lucy Suchman)
CATAC Conference 2008 (Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication), “Digital Public Spaces: Implications toward Cultural Memory and Participation”, Nimes, France, June 2008.
Social Tagging, Digital Contact Zones, and Indigenous Media: Reflections, Cambridge University (UK), CRASSH 2008.
Invited Speaker: “Worldmaking in an Age of New Media” – UWM, April 2008.
“Interdisciplinarity and Information: Global Cultures”, Center for Information as Evidence, UCLA, March 2008.
What is participatory in community archives? Guest presentation in IS 207 – Professor Mary Maack
Panelist, Information Studies Roundtable, “Information Institutions and Professions”, 2007-08
Panelist, Information Studies Roundtable, “Information Retrieval”, 2007-08
Bridging Discourses: Exploring the Relationship between Information Technology and International Development, The I-Conference, 2008, UCLA(with Tapan Parikh, and Steven Jackson)
Culture at the Interface: Collaborative Design and Information Management with Indigenous Communities: The I-Conference, 2008. UCLA (with Kim Christen and Craig Dietrich)
“Emergent Media and Embedded Cultures – Technology Development Possibilities” – California Institute for Information Technology (CALIT2) – Feb 1 08
“System Design – Using Ethnography and Ethnomethodology” – UCLA, Prof. Christine Borgman, Jan 08 – IS282
“Culture and Information: Re-focusing the parameters” – UCLA, Prof. Leah Lievrouw (guest lecture) – Dec 07
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, November 2007.
Center for Future Civic Media, MIT, November, 2007.
Activism, Communities, and New Media – UCLA, Prof. Jean Francois Blanchette. (guest lecture)
The Sarai Institute For Critical and Cultural Media Studies, New Delhi, India – August, 07
“Rural Transformation via Intelligent Information Technologies” – The Satyam Corporation, Hyderabad, India., July 07
“The Economics of Localized Community Technologies” – Institute for Financial Management and Research, Madras, IIT, India., July 07
Invited Speaker – The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras – India: Thinking about Culture in ICT Development Schemes: Lessons from India – July 07
Invited Lecture: New Network Theory – “Information Societies with Locally-grounded Systems” – June, 07 – Amsterdam
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media in Transition Conference: “Envisiong Cross-Cultural Grassroots Digital Spaces”, April 07
Northwestern University “Technology and Social Behavior Colloquium Series invited Speaker: “Cross-cultural discourses and digital systems: Reciprocal Interactions”, May 07
University of Illinois, Graduate School of Information Sciences. : “Community Informatics in Global Systems”, May 07
“E-diaspora: Reconciling the Local and Global” – March 4, 07 – The Metropolis Conference panel on Immigration, Social Inclusion and Information Technologies.
“Culture and Information – Interdisciplinary Methods to Impact Socioeconomic Agendas” – March 1, 2007 – University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies.
“Folksonomies, Tags, and Socially Constructed Digital Publishing”, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, London. April, 07
“The Digital City and its Cultural Flows” – National University of Singapore – December, 2006. Invited Lecture.
Guest Lecture, “Computers and Education” (Noel Enyedy), Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, December, 06
Human Diversity and Social Inclusion in the I-World, Invited Presentation, The I-Conference, University of Michigan, October, 2006.
Invited Manship Award Lecture – Lousiana State University – Departments of Communication Studies and Design Studies, October, 06
Invited Lecture – “Development and Knowledge Connectivity: The President’s PURA vision”, Tanjore, India (President APJ Abdul Kalam of India’s PURA visit) – July, 06.
Invited Lecture – ICTs and Development – Community Perspectives, The Byrraju/Satyam Foundation, Hyderabad, India – July, 06
Invited lecture – “Grassroots IT-facilitated Development”, Microsoft Research Corporation, Bangalore, India – July, 06
Invited Lecture – “Developing Organizationally-tailored information systems”, The Infosys Corporation, Bangalore, India – July, 06
The California State University (CSU)-India Knowledge Commission Educational Research Summit, June 1, 06.
The US-India Summit on Information Technology, Science, and Research (co-hosted by the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology and University of California), May 31, 06
Urban Sensing Summit – ‘Cultural Flows in the Digital Sensing Environment’ – REMAP – Invited Speaker, UCLA, May 06
The World Bank E-Development Sector, Invited Public Lecture – April 13, 06
“Database Aesthetics” Course Lecture – April 25, 06 – Department of Design|Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles.
University of California at Los Angeles – Guest Lecture – “Audiovisual Archiving in the 21st Century” – April 19, 06
Information Architecture Summit – “Reinvoking Culture and Context in Digital Libraries and Museums” – Vancouver, Canada – April, 06
University of California at Los Angeles – Department of Information Studies, Public Colloquium Lecture – March 9, 06
New York University, Department of Anthropology and Media Studies – Public Lecture – 11/05
University of California at Los Angeles – Department of Design|Media Arts – Public Invited Lecture – (http://dma.ucla.edu/events/calendar.php?ID=393), November 8, 05
University of California at Los Angeles – Site Specifics – Stat 260 (Mark Hansen) – Guest Lecture
4S (Social Studies of Science Annual Conference/Meeting) – Panel moderator and presenter: “Communities and Cultural Differentiation: Issues of Ontologies and MetaData”
Invited Lecture – Stanford University’s Kozemetsky Global Collaboratory – Knowledge, Beliefs, Institutions – Hyderabad and Madurai, India (Stanford University), 8/05
University of California at San Diego – Center for Study on Race and Ethnicity Public Colloquium Lecture, 5/05
New York University Department of Culture and Media Colloquium – Public Lecture, 5/05
University of California at Los Angeles – Department of Information Studies – Public Lecture, 3/05
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – School of Information and Library Studies, 3/05
University of Georgia – Grady College of Communication, 2/05
University of California at San Diego – Department of Communication, 2/05
Sewanee College Department of Art and Visual Studies, 2/05
Galerie Der Forschung (Scientific Research) – Vienna, Austria- 12/04
National Museum of Australia – Conference on Communities and Museums – Canberra, Australia – 11/04
Stanford University – Department of Communication and Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory Effort – 11/04
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center – Washington, 9/04
Ecole Des Mines (Public Lecture with Bruno Latour) – Paris, France: 9/04
University of California at Santa Cruz – Department of Anthropology, Public Lecture: 5/04
University of Madras and National Folklore Society of India (Chennai, India) – Department of Anthropology – Public Lecture: 8/04
University of California at San Diego – Sixth College Honors Seminar – Public Lecture: 4/04
Harvard Graduate School of Design: Doctoral Seminar Public Lecture – Digital Culture, Space, and Society: 1/04
National Museum of Australia Invited Keynote Speaker: 8/02
National Communication Scholars Meeting (Boston) – Public Lecture: 10/03
MIT Media Lab Europe E-Communities meeting: Dublin, Ireland – 12/01
Courses Taught
10W INFSTD 275 Cultural Information Sources
10W INFSTD 227 Information Services for Culturally Div. Comms.
10F INFSTD 291A Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies
10F INFSTD289 The Cultural, Ontological, and Digital: Perspectives on Global Media
09S INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies
09S INFSTD 438A Archival Appraisal
09W INFSTD289 The Cultural, Ontological, and Digita: Perspectives on Global Media
09F INFSTD200 Information in Society
08W INFSTD 227 Information Services for Culturally Div. Comms.
08W INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies
08F INFSTD 291A Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies
08F INFSTD 275 Cultural Information Sources
08S INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies
08S INFSTD 438A Archival Appraisal
08W INFSTD 295 Information Seeking (doctoral seminar)
07F INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies
07W INFSTD 227 Information Services for Culturally Div. Comms.
06F INFSTD 200(1) Information – Society
06F INFSTD 200(2) Information – Society
06S INFSTD 275 Development of Cultural Info Sources
06S INFSTD 438A Archival Appraisal
06W INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies
2005 – UC San Diego – Department of Ethnic Studies and College of Art, Culture and Technology – Ethnic Studies 197 – Digital Media, Culture, and Ethnicity
Student Advising
Doctoral Adviser: David Kim, Alivia Zappas
Doctoral Committee Member: Alla Zollers, Katie Shilton, Ajit Pyati, Stasa Milojevic, Alberto Pepe, Matt Mayernik
MLIS Thesis Committee Member: Kim Anderson, Emma Mejia, Robin Fitzpatrick, Steve Kutay, Steve Bingo
Design|Media Arts Thesis Committee Member: Jacob Tonski, Estevan Benson
University Service
UCLA Fulbright Committee 2011-Present
Admissions, Awards and Recruitment Committee, 2009 – Present
Department of Information Studies (chair: John
Richardson)
UCLA Communication University – China Initiative 2010 – Present
(Invited Member, along with Dean of TFT, Anderson School)
UCLA Digital Humanities Steering Committee–
Affiliated 2010 – Present
Faculty
UC-Wide Steering Committee Member, Transliteracies 2009 – Present
Multi-campus Research Group (dir: Alan Liu), NSF
Grant supported
UCLA Committee on Libraries and Scholarly 2009 – Present
Communication Invited Member (chair: Chris Kelty)
Los Angeles Unified School District, Media Arts and 2009 – Present
Studies Program, Advisory Committee Member
Department Diversity Committee September, 2008 – Present
Faculty Executive Committee, GSEIS Fall, 2006 – Spring, 2008
Doctoral Programs Committee Member 2005-2007
Ad Hoc Search Committee Member, Prof. Chris Kelty 2007-08
Ad Hoc Search Committee Member, Dept of Design 2007-08
and Media Arts, Media Theory Position
Ad Hoc Teaching Award Committee Member 2006-07
Design|Media Arts, Dept. Thesis Committee 2007
General Skills and Interests
Ethnography, design, social capital, developmental economics, digital labor, intellectual property, social movements, social network analysis, statistical modelling, ontologies, videography
Extensive Field Experience Within:
· Africa (Egypt, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique)
· Asia (India, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey)
· Central and Latin America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Belize)
· Australasia, Micronesia, Melanesia (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji)
· Europe (NL, Germany, Ireland, France, Russia, U.K, Italy, Belgium, Belarus, Greece, Poland, Czech Republic)
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Tamil, Dutch/Nederlandse, Russian
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