Santa Clara University

Values in the Design of Information Technology Architecture - 2008 Participants

Center for Science, Technology and Society

2008 Participants


 

Directors, Faculty, and Industry Advisors:


Students:

VID Directors:

Geoffrey C. Bowker

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Geoffrey C. Bowker is Executive Director, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor
Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University – a center whose mission is to research and promote the use of science and technology for the common good.  He was previously Professor in and Chair of the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.  He has written with Leigh Star a book on the history and sociology of medical classifications (Sorting Things Out: Classification and Practic - published by MIT Press in September 1999).  This book looks at the classification of nursing work, diseases, viruses and race.  His recent book, entitled Memory Practices in the Sciences about formal and informal recordkeeping in science over the past two hundred years, which includes extensive discussion of biodiversity informatics, was published by MIT Press in February 2006 and won the ASIST prize for best book in Information Science that year. More information, including a number of publications can be found at his website: http://epl.scu.edu/~gbowker; information about the Center is at http://www.scu.edu/sts.

Helen Nissenbaum

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Helen Nissenbaum, is a professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and a faculty fellow, of the Information Law Institute. She studies ethical and political issues relating to information technology and new media, particularly, privacy, politics of search engines, and values embodied in the design of information technologies and systems. Research grants from the U.S National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have supported her research. Books include Emotion and Focus, Computers, Ethics and Social Values (co-edited with D.J. Johnson), and Academy and the Internet (co-edited with Monroe Prince). She is a co-founding editor of the journal, Ethics and Information Technology. Before NYU, Nissenbaum served as Associate Director at Princeton's University Center for Human Values and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford. She earned a B.A. with honors from the University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg, and an M.A. in Education and Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University.

Keynote Speaker
    
Fred Turner
   
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I'm an Assistant Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. I’m the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (Anchor/Doubleday, 1996/second edition, University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and  From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Before coming to Stanford, I taught Communication at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. I also worked for ten years as a journalist. I wrote for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Boston Phoenix, the  Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and the Pacific News Service. During the academic year 2007-2008, I will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

            
Other VID Faculty:
 
Nancy Van House
 

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Education:

AB, English, University of California, Berkeley
MLS 1972, PhD, 1979, School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Positions:

Professor, School of Information , University of California, Berkeley 1995-present [was called School of Information Management and Systems 1995-2006]

School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley:

Acting Dean, 1991-95.
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, 1981-1995
Member of the Information Planning Committee that created the School of Information Management and Systems.

I was a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the time of the transition to SIMS. As Acting Dean, I shepherded the SLIS through the process that led to the creation of SIMS. I was a member of the Information Planning Group that created the proposal for SIMS.

Shay David

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Shay David is a scholar and serial entrepreneur who specializes in collaborative and open-source information and communication systems. Shay is the co-founder of Kaltura,( http://www.kaltura.com ) pioneer in collaborative media, where he oversees technology and strategy. Kaltura has developed the world's first open source video solution, stack, and is empowering the next generation of Wikipedia and sites like the UN's with collaborative rich media functionalities. Prior to Kaltura, Shay was a co-founder of Destinator Technologies, a leader in mobile-GPS-navigation software, and MindEcho, a collaborative filtering software company. Shay was involved for many years in cutting edge software research, combining open source and proprietary software. He lead various product development cycles from concept to market and consulted on open systems to Fortune 500 companies like Toyota and Becton Disckson. Shay holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.A. from New York University where his interdisciplinary research thesis focused on the political economy of free and open source software and file sharing networks. Shay wrote his PhD dissertation on 'The social construction participatory information networks' at Cornell's Science and Technology Studies department and he is also a fellow of The Information Society Project at Yale Law School ( http://isp.law.yale.edu ) where he works on issues of peer-production and access to knowledge. shay has published extensively in leading academic journals. and has presented his work all over the world. (full list of publications available at http://shaydavid.info ). 

Allen S. Hammond IV

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Allen S. Hammond IV holds a Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Chair at Santa Clara University. A professor at Santa Clara Law since 1998, he serves as director of the Broadband Institute of California, is former President of the Alliance for Public technology, director of the Law and Public Policy Program at the Center for Science Technology and Society at Santa Clara University, and is a board member and past chair of the AT&T Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel. He is the author of many articles and the editor, with Barbara S. Cherry and Stephen S. Wildman, of Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 199). He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, his M.A. from the Anneberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. from Grinell College. 
             
Paul Dourish
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Paul Dourish is a Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Anthropology. He teaches in the Informatics program and in the interdisciplinary graduate program in Arts Computation and Engineering. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and social science; he draws liberally on material from computer science, science and technology studies, cultural studies, humanities, and social sciences in order to understand information technology as a site of social and cultural production. In 2008, he was elected to the CHI Academy in recognition of his contributions to Human-Computer Interaction.

He is the author of "Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction" (MIT Press, 2001), which explores how phenomenological accounts of action can provide an alternative to traditional cognitive analysis for understanding the embodied experience of interactive and computational systems.       

Before coming to UCI, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC; he has also held research positions at Apple Computer and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College, London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.

Larry Landweber
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Lawrence H. Landweber is the John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where until July 2000 he held the John P Morgridge Chair. He joined the Wisconsin Computer Science Department in 1967, serving as Chairman during 1977-79 and 1987-90. During 2002-2006 he was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering of the US National Science Foundation. From 2000 to 2008, Dr. Landweber was a member of the Board of Internet2 and Chair of its Network Research Council. He has been Chairman of the Board, President and Vice President for Education of the Internet Society and a member of the Computer Research Association Board. He is a Fellow of the ACM and in 2005 received the IEEE Award on International Communication. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University.
     
Early in his career, Dr. Landweber worked on monadic second order logic / infinite games, complexity theory and Petri nets, serving as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Automata and Computability (SIGACT). Since 1977, he has worked on computer networks.
        
Dr. Landweber’s first networking project, TheoryNet, involved an email system for theoretical computer scientists. In 1979, he proposed and later led the CSNET (Computer Science Network) project. The goal of CSNET was a network for all US university, industry and government computer research groups. Funded by NSF in 1981, CSNET provided an early large-scale community network based on Internet technology. Landweber served as Chair of the project during its implementation phase and also led a technical project that designed and implemented an early network-based directory system, “the CSNET nameserver.” By 1984, over 180 university, industrial, and government computer science departments were participating in CSNET.
       
Later, he worked with NSF on the development of the NSFNET. From 1987 to 1992, he led the Wisconsin component of the NSF-DARPA Gigabit Testbed Project. He currently participates in the NSF-funded 100x100 project, whose goal is to redesign the Internet to accommodate 100 million homes connected at 100 Mbps.
       
Dr. Landweber has been a leader in the development of the international academic/research Internet. In the 1980s he helped establish the first network gateways between the US and many countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America and also advised these countries on the development of their national networks. Much of this progress resulted from a series of International NetWorkshops which he organized beginning in 1982. These NetWorkshops were attended by individuals who were pioneering the development of national networks in their countries.
     
In the 1990s he helped initiate the Internet Society’s Workshops for Developing Countries. These workshops were a key factor in the spread of the Internet to developing countries. Later he collaborated on the plan for what became the USAID Leland Initiative, the program that has played a major role in bringing the Internet to Africa. While President of the Internet Society, he initiated the ISOC proposal to revise the governance of the Domain Name System and assisted in the formation of ICANN.
      
He has been a member of the Computer Research Association Board of Directors, the CCIRN, the Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networks, the Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Information Technology and Research, three NSF division scientific advisory committees, and National Research Council committees on Computer-Computer Communication Protocols, The Future of the NREN, and Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress.
         
Among other projects led by Landweber have been one of the first Internet protocol implementations (1981-84, IBM VM systems) the first publicly available OSI protocol implementation (1984-87 – UNIX), implementation of the OSI network management protocol and its secure version (UNIX). Large-scale validation of the Internet concept. CSNET was funded by NSF ($5 million for 5 years). Later, Landweber worked with NSF on the development of the NSFNET regional/backbone model, on the acceptable use policy, and on other policy issues.
       
Tracy Fullerton
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Co-founder and director of the EA Game Innovation Lab, Tracy Fullerton is a game designer, entrepreneur, and author of Game Design Workshop, a design textbook in use at game programs worldwide. Among her courses are Introduction to Interactive Entertainment, Intermediate Game Design and Development and Advanced Game Project.
   
Recent credits include game designer for The Night Journey, a unique game/art project with artist Bill Viola; game designer for Liberty Under the Law, a collaboration with Activision and KCET funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and faculty advisor for the award-winning student games Cloud and flOw.  Prior to joining USC, she was president and founder of the interactive television game developer, Spiderdance, Inc. Spiderdance’s games included NBC’s Weakest Link, MTV’s webRIOT, The WB’s No Boundaries, History Channel’s History IQ, Sony Game Show Network’s Inquizition and TBS’s Cyber Bond.
    
Before starting Spiderdance, Fullerton was a founding member of the New York design firm R/GA Interactive, creative director at the interactive film studio Interfilm and a designer at Robert Abel’s early interactive company Synapse. Notable projects include Sony’s Multiplayer Jeopardy! and Multiplayer Wheel of Fortune and MSN’s NetWits, the first multiplayer casual game. Her work has received numerous industry honors including an Emmy nomination for interactive television and Time Magazine’s  "Best of the Web."
    
Mary Flanagan
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Mary Flanagan investigates everyday technologies through critical writing, artwork, and activist design projects. Flanagan's work has been exhibited internationally at museums, festivals, and galleries, including: the Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum of American Art, SIGGRAPH, The Banff Centre, The Moving Image Centre, New Zealand, Central Fine Arts Gallery NY, Artists Space NY, the University of Arizona, University of Colorado-Boulder, and venues in Brazil, France, UK, Canada, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Australia. Her projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
      
Flanagan writes about popular culture and digital media such as computer games, virtual agents, and online spaces in order to understand their affect on culture. Her essays on digital art, cyberculture, and gaming have appeared in periodicals such as Art Journal , Wide Angle , Intelligent Agent, Convergence, and Culture Machine, as well as several books. Her co-edited collection reload: rethinking women + cyberculture with Austin Booth was published by MIT Press in 2002. She is also co-author with Matteo Bittanti of Similitudini. Simboli. Simulacri ( SIMilarities, Symbols, Simulacra ) on The Sims game (in Italian, Unicopli 2003), and the co-editor of the collection re:skin , forthcoming from MIT Press.
       
Flanagan is also the creator of "The Adventures of Josie True," the first web-based adventure game for girls, and is implementing innovations in pedagogical and values-based game design. Mary Flanagan holds MFA and MA degrees from the University of Iowa, a BA in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Ph.D. in Computational Media focusing on activist game design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK. She teaches in the Integrated Media Arts MFA program in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, NYC. Her research group and laboratory in New York is called TiltFactor, a lab focused on the design of activists and socially-conscious software.
   
Katie Vann
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Katie Vann is a social theorist and organizational ethnographer working with the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Amsterdam and with the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University.
       
She researches the cultural and institutional technologies of neoliberal sociality and political-economic order. Past and ongoing work has focused on the classification of work, the political implications of the discrepancy between formal and informal work, and the business implications of late 20th century social studies of knowledge.
Current empirical research focuses on the organization of transnational water governance, with an emphasis on the cultural construction of policy formation, water management procedures, and accountability regimes. The project on water management investigates the political rationality of a contemporary transnational water management paradigm (IWRM), its communicative and normative status as a form of globally circulated 'soft law', and its manifestation in the representational/classificatory practices of the United Nations in its assessment of the legitimacy of the water management activities of Nation States.
        
Katie has published in a range of social science and humanities journals, including Ephemera: theory and politics in organization; Social Epistemology; Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik; Mind, Culture, and Activity; First Monday; and The Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. Some of her work also appears in edited volumes, including: The Artists' Work Classification (2007); Deleuzian Intersections in Science, Technology and Anthropology (2007); New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production (2006); The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader (2004); and Mixing Methods in Psychology (2004).
      
Katie has a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of California, San Diego, as well as degrees in Interdisciplinary Social Science (MA) and Continental Philosophy (BA). She was born and raised in Louisiana, and lives in San Francisco.
     
Suzi Iacono
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Suzi Iacono is Acting Division Director for Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She also serves as the International Advisor for the CISE Directorate. From 2003 to 2005, she headed up the Information Technology Research (ITR) Program, an NSF-wide Priority Area and prior to that was the Program Director for Social Informatics. Prior to coming to NSF, she held a faculty position at Boston University, was a Visiting Scholar at the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a research associate at the University of California, Irvine. Over the years, she has written journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on Social Informatics. Suzi received her PhD from the University of Arizona in Information Systems and her MA and BA from the University of California, Irvine in Social Ecology.
    
Susan Leigh Star
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Susan Leigh Star ("Leigh") is Senior Scholar at the Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University, where she is also a Visiting Professor of Computer Engineering. She has been a Professor in the Department of Communication, UC San Diego and Professor of Information Science at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is president-elect of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), an international organization that coordinates research on science, technology and society (beginning in October, 2005). For many years she has worked with computer and information scientists, with whom she has studied work, practice, organizations, scientific communities and their decisions, and the social/moral aspects of information infrastructure.
         
She originally trained as an ethnographer and grounded theorist (with Anselm Strauss), and received her PhD in Sociology of science and medicine from the University of California, San Francisco. She is a feminist activist, poet, and social theorist. With Geoffrey Bowker, her most recent book is Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (MIT, 1999). Bowker and Star explore the history of several large-scale classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Nursing Information Classification (NIC). They develop one of the few social theories of large-scale information infrastructure as a kind of global decision making system. Star's other work includes studies of a scientific museum, a community of biologists, the several communities intersecting to form modern brain research and surgery, and methodological pieces on the study of infrastructure from a social science perspective. Among her analytic contributions are the notion of "boundary object"; the development of Gregory Bateson's work on double binds as applied to infrastructure; and explication of the concept of "invisible work," especially as applied to the design of information systems.
       
Star's current work includes a monograph extending theories of boundary objects, Boundary Objects and the Poetics of Infrastructure (MIT Press, forthcoming). She is as well developing a new project on the history and sociology of electroconvulsive shock therapy
        
Kalpana Shankar
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Kalpana Shankar is currently an assistant professor in the Social Informatics group in the School of Informatics, and an adjunct professor in the School of Library and Information Science. Her research projects focus on the uses of data and information (digital and otherwise) in scientific pedagogy, practice, and policy. Shankar is also a co-PI on ETHOS, an NSF-sponsored project to investigate aging and home-based technology.  She’s also done work with Professor David Wild in the School of Informatics on collaborative technologies for grassroots disaster management and mitigation. Shankar also interested in researching how to conduct research on these topics through various kinds of ethnography and other qualitative methods. Shankar received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science at UCLA and conducted postdoctoral research in the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA. She has completed an AAAS Science Policy Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Office of Evaluation.

          

Industry Advisors:
      

Radha Basu

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Chairman of the Board, SupportSoft

Radha was born and raised in Chennai, India, where she secretly applied to an engineering school and where she received the highest result in the entrance exam as one of just 17 women in the course with 2,700 students.  At the age of 20, she earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and subsequently attended the Stanford Executive Management Program.  

Professionally, she served a 20-year tenure as general manager for Hewlett Packard’s international software division. Radha joined SupportSoft as CEO in July 1999 and is considered a pioneer of the support automation market having built SupportSoft into a global market leader in support automation software, with customers, including GE, Cisco Systems, Bank of America, BellSouth, Procter & Gamble, IBM, Comcast, Verizon, BT and Airtel.

In addition to the guidance and inspiration she provides others on a daily basis, Radha has had significant impact on two groups during her career. First is the Indian software industry. In the mid-1980s, she developed HP’s software center in Bangalore, one of HP’s first foreign subsidiaries; and it is still thriving today. While today many high tech companies have satellite offices or development groups in India, when Radha set up the software center in Bangalore, it was truly a pioneering event. Radha has also had strong influence on women in technology as a whole. In addition to blazing a trail for other women executives in high technology, Radha makes an effort to mentor young girls in science as well as lend her expertise to other woman professionals in the technology industry.

Radha recently retired from her role as CEO and along with her husband Dipak founded the Anudip Foundation (www.anudip.org) to fund humanitarian projects. Dipak graduated from the University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program in 2005. Their first project - the Linkage Rural Entrepreneur Development Center of the Anudip Society was inaugurated on May 8th at the premises of our partner, Asha Welfare Society, in beautifully rural Namkhana island in the south Sundarbans.  The goal of Linkage India is to create livelihood for the unemployed and marginalized poor through a chain of resource centers for the development of rural entrepreneurs and their empowerment with access to markets and capital.

Radha, and her husband Dipak, have trekked on Mt. Everest twice, reaching its base camps on both the North and South sides. She applies this experience to every aspect of her life - “The mountain doesn’t care if you are a Hollywood actress or a CEO - the enormity of the trek forces you to be prepared for every disaster. Resilience, team work, risk taking and passion are key to both trekking and being a CEO.”

Anthony Bettencourt

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President and CEO, Autonomy ZANTAZ

Anthony Bettencourt is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Autonomy ZANTAZ.  He also serves as the chairman of the board of Blinkx, Inc., the world’s largest video search engine on the Internet, and is also on the board of National Banana, Avolent, and the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Previously, Mr. Bettencourt was the Chief Executive Officer of Verity, and led the company through its successful acquisition by Autonomy.  In 2005, he was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for software and technology in the Silicon Valley.  Anthony serves as a judge for the Tech Awards and is a mentor for Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator program at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society. Anthony earned a B.A. in English from Santa Clara University in 2006.

William (Bill) Carrico Jr.

 
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Chairman, Packet Design LLC

William N. Carrico graduated from Santa Clara University in 1972 with a BSEE.  After working at Fairchild Semiconductor and Zilog, Inc., Bill went on to co-found seven networking companies in the Bay Area over the next 20 years, including Bridge Communications in 1981.  Bridge was a vendor of internetwork routers and bridges that went public in 1985 and merged with 3Com Corporation in 1987, during which time Carrico served as President of 3Com.

A second startup, Network Computing Devices, a maker of X terminals and PC-UNIX integration software, was founded in 1988 and went public in 1992.  Carrico served as President and CEO of NCD until 1993 when he became Chairman.

Carrico also served as Chairman of Precept Software from the company's 1995 founding as a maker of streaming video software.  After Cisco Systems acquired Precept in 1998, in 1999 he became Cisco's Senior Vice President of the Small and Medium Business Unit through April 2000.

Carrico then co-founded Packet Design LLC in 2000 as a network startup incubator and currently serves as its Chairman.  Packet Design LLC has presently spun-off three separate companies.          

          
Students:
   

Morgan Ames

 
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Morgan is a PhD student and NSF Fellow in Stanford's Department of Communication. Moving to the Bay Area from Salt Lake City, Utah, she earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley in spring 2004 and a Master's degree in Information Science from UC Berkeley in spring 2006. Morgan's research centers on the social meanings of technologies. She began her research career in human-computer interaction at Berkeley and quickly became fascinated with the deeper social questions concerning technology that she encountered there. In addition to communication and information science, she draws on science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, and cultural theory to answer questions about the ways in which we make sense of technologies in our lives. Her previous research projects include the social meanings of personal photography, ambient displays, technology and the city, methods of technology evaluation, and the implications of technology in economic development discourse. She is also interested in other topics in science and technology studies, new media, gender studies, human-computer interaction, and design. Outside of school, she can often be found ballroom dancing.

        

Archer Batcheller

         
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Archer L. Batcheller is a PhD student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He received an Electrical Engineering degree from
Princeton University. Archer has studied social games played over video conferencing systems, Native American tribes' access to financial information, and automated support systems for those with chronic illnesses. Recent research interests focus on health workers' access to
medical information in Africa. Theoretical foci include infrastructure studies and cyberinfrastructure.          
              

Corinna Bath

   
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Corinna Bath is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS) in Graz, Austria, where she finishes her dissertation thesis on the gendering and de-gendering of computational artefacts (Computer Science Department, Bremen University, Germany).She studied mathematics and political sciences and had research and teaching positions in mathematics, computer science, gender studies and philosophy of science at several German and Austrian universities (TU Berlin, UAS Anhalt, Uni Bremen, Uni Vienna, Uni Klagenfurt, TU Vienna). Her main research interests are gender studies in computer science, feminist technoscience studies, feminist epistemology, socio-emotional software agents and semantic technologies. bath@sts.tugraz.at
   

Jill Coffin

 
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Stephane Couture

 
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I am a PhD student on a joint thesis project between the Faculty of Communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and the Department of Social Science at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in Paris. I am broadly interested in the cultural and political dimensions of technical activity, especially computer programming. After receiving a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, I became involved in different projects related to alternative media, free software activism, and international cooperation. I completed a Master’s degree in Communication Studies at UQÀM which was focussed on the free software movement in South America (Brazil and Argentina). During this period, I was also the Coordinator of the Laboratoire de communication médiatisée par ordinateur (Computer-mediated Communication Laboratory) at UQÀM, where I worked on a larger research project that aimed at describing and analyzing the practices and discourses of technology activists. I am currently a student member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), a leading STS research center in Canada. When I am not in front of my computer, I like to hike and go camping. For more information, please visit my personal website: http://stephanecouture.info.

        

Ingrid Erickson

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Ingrid Erickson is a doctoral candidate at the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford University where she conducts qualitative, ethnographic research with Professors Diane Bailey, Stephen Barley, and Fred Turner. Her dissertation looks at how new forms of 'socio-locative' practice may be re-conceptualizing the ways people experience place, their conceptions of social space, and their own identities. Other research interests include the connections between technologies, rhetoric, and practice as well as the framing and institutionalization of new technologies within organizations. Erickson has worked twice (2003, 2005) as an intern with the Social Computing Group at IBM Research. She holds an MS in information studies (with an emphasis in human-computer interaction) from the School of Information at University of Michigan, an MA in religious studies from University of Chicago Divinity School, and a BA in religion from Carleton College.

         

Laura Forlano

              
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Laura Forlano is a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and a Ph.D. Candidate in Communications at Columbia University.  Her research interests include organizations, technology (in particular, mobile and wireless technology) and the role of place in communication, collaboration and innovation.  Forlano is an Adjunct Faculty member in the Design and Management department at Parsons and the Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Media Studies at The New School.  She serves as a board member of NYCwireless and the New York City Computer Human Interaction Association.  Forlano received a Master's in International Affairs from Columbia University, a Diploma in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor's in Asian Studies from Skidmore College.
   

Elizabeth Goodman

         
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Elizabeth Goodman's writing, design and research focus on the intersections of technology, the social sciences, and interaction design. Currently a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information, Elizabeth studies the relationship between mobile technologies and the experience of place. Previously, she focused on mobile technology in health and wellness as a design researcher with Intel User Centered Design. Elizabeth was a visiting lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004, and has exhibited in New York, Paris, and San Francisco. She has an MPS in interaction design from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, as well as a BA in art from Yale University.

        

Andrea Grimes

         

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Andrea Grimes is a fourth year Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute Tech. In 2005, she graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Computer Science. At Georgia Tech, she is a member of the Work2Play lab and her adviser is Dr. Rebecca E. Grinter. In her dissertation research, she examines how to design technologies that support individuals in low-income, urban communities in eating healthfully. Specifically, she has used qualitative field work as a starting point for the design of lightweight mobile phone applications that help community members learn culturally-relevant strategies for healthy eating. Andrea is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Microsoft Research Fellow, and a Google Anita Borg Scholar. In addition, she received a Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge Grant to support her dissertation research.
                      

Jina Huh        

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Jina Huh is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Information, University of Michigan. Mark Ackerman is her advisor, and her research involves understanding how people appropriate and maintain discontinued (and to be discontinued) personal computers. She received a Masters degree in Human Computer Interaction from HCII, Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, and a BA in Multimedia Design from Korean National University of Arts in 2003.
       

Lilly Irani

             
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I am a first year PhD student working at the intersection of everyday ubiquitous computing and interactive and collaborative technologies, with a Graduate Feminist Emphasis <http://www.humanities.uci.edu/womensstudies/grad/>. My research interests are everyday privacy strategies in collaboration, post colonial computing, and feminist research practice, critical studies of ubiquitous computing infrastructure.  Previously, I spent four years at Google as a User Experience Designer, focusing on early stage design research, information architecture, and interaction design. I have an M.S. in Computer Science specializing in Human-Computer Interaction, a B.S. in Computer Science with honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University.


            

Nassim Jafarinaimi


         
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Sonja Jerka-Zuiderent      

          

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Current Research: I am a research fellow at the health care governance section of the Institute of Health Policy and Management at the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam. My general research endeavours are dedicated to the interwoven design and organisation of science, technology and society with a particular research focus on the performativity and justifications of health care (governance) practices and issues of social accountability.

Background: Currently I am following the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC) (www.wtmc.net) which is a formal collaboration of Dutch researchers studying the development of science, technology and modern culture. The Graduate School provides advanced training for Ph.D. students. I have studied Regional Studies in Germany (University of Cologne) which is a combination of Political Sciences, Economics, History and Spanish/Brazilian Literature and Linguistics. I concluded my study with an MA in Political Sciences. Furthermore, I have been working at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne assisting F. W. Scharpf. At the University of Sevilla I have completed a MA in Spanish / German translation.
        

Jelena Karanovic

             
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Jelena Karanovic is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of French Studies at New York University.  She received a B.A. in Computer Science and French from Goucher College.  Jelena's research interests include anthropology of technology and science; ethnography of transnational processes; media activism; technological innovation and social change; contemporary France and Europe.  Her dissertation focuses on free software advocacy in France in order to address (culturally diverse) conceptions of cooperation, technical expertise, democratic engagement, and globalization.  Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Chateaubriand, and NYU Dean's Dissertation Fellowships.
                                                  

Cory Knobel

         
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Cory Knobel is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is also a graduate of the UM programs in Science, Technology, & Society and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. His research concentrates on social and policy aspects of large-scale scientific collaborations, service research and the emerging SSME (Service Science, Management and Engineering) field, and  human constraints and enablements produced by socio-technical infrastructures. He comes to the VID conference after spending a summer as a visiting PhD Fellow with IBM Almaden Research Center, working with the Service Practices group.
                 

Nick Knouf

    
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I just finished my first year as a PhD student in information science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. My research explores the interstitial spaces between information science, critical theory, digital art, and science and technology studies. Current projects of mine include a mobile phone messaging application that works independent of a centralized network, and a robotic marionette that provokes non-speech sounds as a means of encouraging the expression of the unspeakable. More info is available on my website, http://zeitkunst.org , and my blog, http://zeitkunst.org/blog.
    

Christopher LeDantec

     
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Christopher Le Dantec is currently a Ph.D. student in the Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Tech. His research is taking aim at how marginalized communities like the homeless are affected by social change inherent in the adoption of new technologies. Prior to Georgia Tech, he was an interaction designer with Sun Microsystems and helped establish its interaction design practice in the Czech Republic.
         

Alice Marwick

          
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Ms. Marwick’s dissertation, “Becoming Elite: Status in Social Media”, takes an anthropological approach to examining the creation and maintenance of status hierarchies within social media through ethnographic examination of workers in the Web 2.0 startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Marwick is interested in how social media technologies contribute to status inequalities, particularly around gender, educational level, and class. The project is driven by four primary concerns: first, to examine how the features of certain interactive internet applications, both past and present, affect how status is maintained, displayed, or resisted; second, to determine the relationship between status hierarchies in “online” and “offline” social spaces used by the same community; third, to understand how status hierarchies affect the development and creation of social media applications; and fourth, to examine how status markers, particularly consumption, function in internet environments.
    

Lilly Nguyen

           
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Robert Olivo

           
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I am a Ph.D. student in Virginia Tech’s department of Science and Technology in Society where I am studying international summits and discourses over the Information Society and their translation into national and local contexts and spaces in the Dominican Republic.  I am interested in how local sociotechnical practices in Internet centers in the Dominican Republic are connected to national technology policies and the multiplicity of visions over the Information Society, especially those articulated in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003 an 2005.  In particular, I will be conducting an institutional ethnography of Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones (Dominican Institute of Telecommunications or Indotel) which straddles the boundaries of the international, national, and local.  I received my Masters in STS from Viginia Tech in 2007 and my B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Latino/a, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies from Northeastern University in 2000.  In between my undergraduate and graduate careers, I worked as an IT manager and network/systems administrator.  As I write this, I am surrounded by boxes that threaten to cave-in on me as I prepare to move back to my hometown of NYC within a few days.  Once there, I plan on joining La Boule New Yorkaise, the local New York Petanque club.  
                   

Erika Poole

          
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Erika Shehan Poole is a PhD student in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research interests broadly focus on how end-users make sense of networked computing in domestic settings and in more advanced ubiquitous computing environments. Her current work focuses on understanding both the causes of user experience difficulties associated with networked computing in the home, as well as how householders seek help from third parties in overcoming these difficulties. She has also studied technology adoption issues for a range of technologies ranging from futuristic ubiquitous computing systems to workplace collaboration software. Erika holds a BS degree in computer science from Purdue University and an MS in computer science from Georgia Tech. She is a member of ACM and IEEE, and is actively interested in research ethics and public policy issues related to computing.

          

Theo Rohle

     
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I am a PhD candidate at the department for Media and Communication Studies, University of Hamburg. I received my M.A. in Communication Studies from Stockholm University, where I also studied Cultural Studies and History of Ideas. I worked as a part-time assistant lecturer in Stockholm and Hamburg; my current research is funded by the German Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. My blog can be found at www.netzmedium.de

       

Amanda Rotondo

       
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I am entering my second year of the Communication and Rhetoric PhD program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. My research interests are in human-computer interaction and specifically include art museums online and the nature of disagreement. Before coming to RPI, I got my Masters in Media Studies from Penn State and my Bachelors in Electronic Media Arts and Communication from RPI. I have also had a career as an Information Architect and Usability Designer, and tried my hand as a Market Research Analyst, too. My current career goals include working in academia, both teaching and researching, and ideally keeping one foot in industry as a consultant. When I’m not studying, I like to play with my incredibly cute black lab, Django, and hang out with my handsome husband, who is also a Ph.D. student at RPI. We are working on restoring our house, a 1926 "Honeymoon Cottage" by architect Ernest Flagg. I also like to garden, crosstitch, go for walks, and entertain.

      

Judith Simon

           
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Judith Simon (*1977) is university assistant at the Department of Philosophy, Research Group Philosophy of Science: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge, University of Vienna, Austria since May 2005. Currently she is a visiting scholar at the Forum on Contemporary Europe at Stanford University, where she is conducting research for her PhD-thesis on the relationship between knowledge and ICT, more specifically on notions of knowledge, trust and sociality inherent in discourses within social epistemology on the one hand and in software developments and web applications on the other. Judith Simon has studied psychology in combination with philosophy, literature and media studies at the universities of Marburg, Berlin and Waterloo/Canada before receiving her MSc in Psychology in 2002 from the Free University Berlin. After completing her studies she has worked as a freelance worker in usability testing of software applications. From 2003 till 2005 she has been research assistant in the research group “Humans, Environment, Technology” (MUT: Mensch, Umwelt, Technik) of the research center Juelich. She was delegated to the interdisciplinary research group “Bioethics and Science Communication” located at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, where she spent 2 years primarily on technology assessment of stem cell research and pathogenomics.

              

Karen Smith

             
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Karen is a PhD student enrolled in the Faculty of Information and Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto.  Karen holds a masters degree from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.   Karen’s research interests center around: information communication technologies (ICTs), citizenship, democracy, deliberation, social inclusion and policy formation. In addition to academic research, Karen has worked in the Philippines as web design intern with a human rights organization, in a content management role with a major Canadian online banking organization and in a technology group within the Canadian government. http://karenlouisesmith.net/
               

Christopher Soghoian

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Paola Zeni

    
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Paola Zeni was born in Italy and graduated in law from the Catholic University of Milan. Admitted to practice as a lawyer in Italy, she started her career in a law firm in Milan, working on contractual matters and business litigations.  She worked for Hewlett-Packard as in-house counsel for nine years, with various responsibilities in providing legal support to sales, manufacturing and service organizations.
She joined Agilent Technologies in Italy as in-house counsel with overall responsibilities for legal compliance of the Italian subsidiary and for legal support to the businesses. Since 2004 she works for Agilent in the US with the primary responsibility to provide legal advice to the Privacy Program Office on global policy issues. She is currently a LLM student at the University of Santa Clara.  
        
         

Malte Ziewitz

            
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Malte Ziewitz is a DPhil Candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research interests revolve around the legal, societal, and economic implications of the Internet and related communication technologies. More specifically, he is interested in new forms of governance and regulation, the role of private middlemen in communication networks, and multidisciplinary approaches, particularly law and sociology. Malte holds a law degree from the University of Hamburg School of Law and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, where he also was a McCloy Scholar. He is still affiliated with his former homestead, the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, and is a Non-resident Fellow at the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen. Malte has taught courses at the intersection of law, technology, and society at the Universities of Oxford, Hamburg, and Lubeck. Before discovering the comfortable life of an academic, he worked as a radio reporter and copywriter.

        

Alla Zollers

  
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Alla Zollers is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles in the department of Information Studies. Her research specialty is social software, specifically concentrating on social tagging and social network sites. Alla also holds a Masters' in Human-Computer Interaction from the School of Informatics at Indiana University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Alla's broad research interests include social software, social networks, sociology of information, alternative and activist media, social informatics, and cultural and media studies.
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