---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: HCDE News <hcden...@uw.edu> Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 AM Subject: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and Marginality" To: hcde-commun...@uw.edu, d...@dub.washington.edu
*Please join the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering next Tuesday, March 3, for a special guest lecture.* *Mobiles, Media, and Marginality* *Neha Kumar* Tuesday, March 3 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Sieg Hall, Room 233 Save to your calendar >> <http://eventactions.com/ea.aspx?e32=grzwn70mmdakr1hf9d3erasr7s> With the rapid proliferation of mobile phones across the world, marginal technology users are fast becoming the majority as they begin to engage with technologies on their own terms. My research focuses on understanding these emerging sociotechnical contexts in under-represented communities across the world and leveraging this understanding to design and build appropriate technological interventions for the benefit of these communities. I engage with a growing body of Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature to critically analyze and constructively inform the processes of technology design. In this talk, I will present my ethnographic findings on the appropriation of mobile technology by Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. My research shows how these youth, through their offline and online media engagements, end up creating informal spaces of learning for themselves. Thus I emphasize that 'development-friendly' outcomes can and do result from less-studied recreational uses of technology. I will subsequently discuss how I operationalize these findings towards the design and implementation of two distinct mobile health initiatives, before presenting future directions for my work. *Bio:* *Neha Kumar *is a postdoctoral researcher at the Annenberg School of Communication in University of Southern California. Prior to this, she was at the University of Washington for a year, working as a postdoc with Profs. Richard Anderson and Gaetano Borriello in the Computer Science and Engineering department. She completed her PhD at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Prof. Tapan Parikh. She carries two masters degrees from Stanford University, one in Computer Science and the other in Learning, Design & Technology. She was a recipient of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Fellowship in 2012. Human Centered Design & Engineering <http://www.hcde.uw.edu/> *[image: University of Washington Signature]* <http://www.washington.edu/marketing/files/2012/10/wsignature.gif> Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/hcde.uw> | Twitter <http://twitter.com/hcdeUW> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Human-Centered-Design-Engineering-2502822> _______________________________________________ dub mailing list d...@dub.washington.edu http://dub.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub
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