On this page you can read about my current digital system projects sponspored by the National Science Foundation and the Federal Government's Institute for Museum and Library Services with Native American communities (the Zuni currently) and several museums. With these projects and others I am arguing for a more cultural, digital, multiple value-imbued web. To engage with this we need to think about algorithms and their values built into them, what I am calling 'algorithmic epistemics'.

My work in this area also involves thinking about algorithmic alternatives, particularly around particular topics that users may search for. For example, if a user is interested in diverse perspectives, positions toward a topic, how do we develop digital systems that can accomodate multiple viewpoints? What about multiple cultural perspectives on an issue?

 

Current Projects

Emergent Databases, Emergent Diversity

Creating Cultural and Complex Algorithms – Learning from Diversity, Emergence and Complexity

Collaborative Catalogs – Designing Digital Systems that incorporate multiple perspectives

 

Relevant Papers

2009: Becvar, K. and Srinivasan, R. "Indigenous knowledge and culturally responsive methods in information research", Library Quarterly 79(4).

2009: Srinivasan, R. and Fish, A. "Internet Authorship:" Social and Political Implications in Kyrgyzstan ", Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 14(3)

2009: Srinivasan, R., Boast, R., Becvar, K. and Furner, J. "Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledge: Moving past the traditional catalog", The Information Society, 25(4).

2009: Srinivasan, R., Boast, R., Becvar, K., and Enote, J. "Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones in the Digital Museum", Science Technology and Human Values, in press.

2009: Srinivasan, Ramesh, Jim Enote, Katherine M. Becvar, and Robin Boast "Critical and Reflective Uses of New Media Technologies in Tribal Museums". Museum Management and Curatorship, 24(2): 169_189.

2009: Srinivasan, R., Boast, R., Becvar, K. and Furner, J. "Blobgects: Digital Museum Catalogs and Diverse User Communities ", Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 60(4).

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 (2)

2007: 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), in press.

2007: Shilton, K., and Srinivasan, R., "Preserving Empowered Representations: Using Archival Principles to Maintain Context for Cultural Heritage Materials " Archivaria 63.

2007: Srinivasan, R. and Pyati, A. "Diasporic Information Environments: Re-framing Information Behavior Research"., Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, in press.

2006: Boast, R., Bravo, M. and Srinivasan, Ramesh, "Return to Babel: Emergent diversity, digital resources,
and local knowledge", The Information Society, in press.

2006: Srinivasan, Ramesh, "Where Information Society and Community Voice Intersect", The Information Society, 22(5).

2006: Srinivasan, Ramesh, "Indigenous, Ethnic, and Cultural Articulations of New Media", International Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(4)

2005: Srinivasan, Ramesh, "Ethnomethodological Architectures – The Convergence Between an Information System and the Cultural Landscape", Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, in press

2005: Srinivasan, Ramesh and Huang, Jeffrey- "Fluid Ontologies for Digital Museums", Journal of Digital Libraries special issue on Digital Museums 5(3).

2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh – "Reconstituting the Urban through community-articulated digital environments", Journal of Urban Technology 11(2).

2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh – "Knowledge Architectures for Cultural Narratives", Journal of Knowledge Management, 8(4).

 

 

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