CV
Ramesh Srinivasan
http://rameshsrinivasan.org, twitter: @rameshmedia
Associate Professor, UCLA – Dept. of Information Studies and Design | Media Arts
222 GSEIS Building – Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
Tel: (310) 206-8320; Fax: (310) 206-4460
srinivasan@ucla.edu
Academic Employment
2012-Present: Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies and Design | Media Arts
2012 : Visiting Professor, Stanford University – Freeman-Spoegli Institute
2012: Visiting Professor, UC Santa Cruz – Departments of Anthropology and Digital Arts/New Media
2005-2012: 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
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Public Outreach
The Young Turks – Media Appearance on January 2, 2013. “On Making a Sustainable Better World”
Featured Appearance, Al Jazeera English, “Egypt’s Digital Battle”, The Stream, October 29th, 2012
TEDxUCLA Invited Speaker, October 27, 2012. “How Culture and Technology Create One Another”
Srinivasan, R. “Taking Power Through Technology in the Arab Spring”, Al Jazeera English Op/Ed
TEDxSanJoaquin Speaker, October 10, 2102. “Digital Dissent and People’s Power”
TEDxYouth7thStreet Speaker, Learning from Egypt, May 5th, 2012
Interview, KCRW 89.9 FM (KCRW.com) – Social Media and the Los Angeles Riots, 20 years later. May, 4, 2012
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
Featured Appearance – Al Jazeera English – Srinivasan, R. – “Did Social Media Oust Mubarak”, The Stream, July 19th 2011
Featured Appearance – Al Jazeera English – Srinivasan, R., The Digital Revolution and the Tamil Diaspora, The Stream, July 20th 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
Project Consultant, National Science Foundation grant – “Bringing Wireless Technology to Sub-Saharan Africa”, PIs Belding and Parks, UC Santa Barbara
Invited Career Day Speaker, Ambassador School of Global Leadership (High School and Middle School), Los Angeles, CA
Reviewer, The Sociological Quarterly
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. , “What Tahrir Square Has Done For Social Media: The Struggle for Political Power in Egypt”, under review
2012: Srinivasan, R. and Seddon, J.S, “Scaling Knowledge: Reconciling Local and Global Knowledge Systems”, under review
2012: Srinivasan, R. “Bridges Between Cultural and Digital Worlds in Revolutionary Egypt”, in press, The Information Society
2011: Srinivasan, R. “Re-writing the Cultural Codes of New Media: The Question Concerning Ontology”, in press, New Media and Society
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
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
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, Technology, Power and Revolutions – December 14, 2012. The Hemispheric Institute of NYU, San Cristobal De Las Cases, Mexico
Invited Speaker – Digital Religion meeting – Religion in the Digital Age: Media, Performance and “Spectacular Activism” – New York University, “Tahrir’s Networks of Faith”, June 25, 2012
Invited Speaker – Remember Turing Conference – University of California Los Angeles, May 28, 2012 (organizer: Professor Victoria Vesna, UCLA)
Invited Speaker – Stanford University, – Technology and South Asia Workshop – May 27, 2012.
Invited Keynote Lecture – Social Media and Global Culture – Denmark Association of Museums, Nyborg, Denmark. March 2012.
Invited Panelist, Building Digital Collaborations Between Museums, Archaeologists, and Indigenous Communities, WebWise 2012, Baltimore Maryland, March 2012.
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 | 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 | ntroduction 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 |
| 05 | ETHSTD 197 | Digital Media, Culture, and Ethnicity (UC San Diego Department of Ethnic Studies and College of Art, Culture and Technology) |
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 Communication Invited Member (chair: Chris Kelty), 2009 – Present
Los Angeles Unified School District, Media Arts and Studies Program, Advisory Committee Member, 2009 – Present
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 and Media Arts, Media Theory Position, 2007-08
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
· 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)
Language proficiency
English, Spanish, Tamil, Dutch/Nederlandse, Russian