Re: [change] Fwd: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and Marginality"

[Trevor Perrier]

Just a reminder that besides Change tomorrow there are two other talks 
that the Change community would find interesting:

*
**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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/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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[change] Fwd: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and Marginality"

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: HCDE News 
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 >>


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 

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