Just a reminder that besides Change tomorrow there are two other talks
that the Change community would find interesting:
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**Neha Kumar: Mobiles, Media, and Marginality*
9:30 - 10:30
Sieg Hall 233
*Kurtis Heirmerl: Community Cellular Networks*
3:30 - 4:30
EEB 105
- Trevor
On 02/27/2015 09:28 AM, Trevor Perrier wrote:
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Subject: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and
Marginality"
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/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
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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.
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