I’ve just moved to China to fieldwork on how non-elite users, youth, and migrants are using cellphones and the internet. I’ve decided to keep a separate blog of all my ethnographic observations so that it doesn’t get mixed in with my general observations about culture and technology on Cultural Bytes.
Read MoreI love the way my interview turned out on Benjamen Walker's Too Much Information. We met in Austin, Texas at SXSW and he ended up super fun to work with.
Read MoreEn route to China, I stopped in Austin to give a talk at my first time at SXSW Interactive. What did I overhear the most at SXSW?
Read MoreGood day world! it’s finally happening! I’m moving to China to do my research! wooohoo!
So I’m moving to China to do my research, and then coming back to write something that I hope to buddha doesn’t kill my soul to write creative non-fiction. (here’s some more details about my research). I have a post on my personal blog about all the things and people that I will miss so dearly.
Read MoreJust bought my tickets to Austin, Texas for SXSW - who else will be there? This will be my first SXSW! I get to play with the amazingly smart and playful Glenda Bautista, who invited me to join the Futures 15 line up.
Read MoreI was a guest speaker at the wonderful Kristen Taylor’s seminar, Creating Community Environments, at New York University’s ITP program.
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Somehow the internets connected Dhiren Shingadia and I, which then evolved into a skype convo and then his interview with me: Understanding communities through ethnography (I recommend reading it here on Future Lab - better formatting).
Read MoreProfessor Irina Shklovski invited me to give a talk to her seminar at IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark. I spoke about my research question has evolved over the years and tips on doing ethnographic research. The slides below are from the portion of my talk about ethnography.
Read MoreI'm super excited to spend a week in Chicagoand meet all the other fellows. These kind of events are always fun because you get to meet tons of awesome new friends!
Read MoreI am so excited to announce that I’ve started a research internship with Nokia Research Center (NRC) Palo Alto!. I’m working with Jofish Kaye and the IDEA Team (Innovate Design Experience Animate), which is led by Mirjana Spasojevic. The IDEA team is super diverse and there are so many people doing cool things.
Read MoreI was so excited to be a member of the United States delegation to the China-India-US Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Workshop. This NSF-funded program is part of George Mason University’s Science and Trade Policy Program and the conference this year was held at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bangalore, India. I sat on the Information Technology panel and learned a lot about the other two topics, coal and pharmaceuticals!
Read MoreOh I'm so excited that I'll be starting this project with Barbara Cervone from U.S. based-nonprofit What Kids Can Do, Inc. and Adobe Youth Voices.
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