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Ramesh Srinivasan

Projects

The Open Internet and Blogs Social, Economic, and Political Revolutions

Crowdsourcing, Networks, and Virtual Organizations

Cultural Knowledges and Digital Systems

Reflective Media and Policy in Developing Nations

Publications

Classes

Slides

Ramesh Srinivasan

http://rameshsrinivasan.org, twitter: rameshmedia

Department of Information Studies GSE & IS222 GSEIS Building Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520

Tel: 310-***-****; Fax: 310-***-****

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Academic Employment

2005-Present: Assistant Professor (Step V), Department of Information Studies (courtesy:

Department of Design Media Arts), University of California, Los Angeles.

2005 Lecturer University of California at San Diego Winter, 2004-2005: Designing

Digital Environments for Culture and Community, Department of Ethnic Studies and College

of Art, Culture and Technology.

2002 2005: Doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

2004 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies

61r: Physical Computing, Spring 2004

2003 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies

60r: Digital Arts: Digital Expression, Fall 2003

2003

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 7301: Internet and

Architecture, Spring 2003

2002 MIT Media Lab Asia Fellow

2000-2002Research FellowMIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

1998: Research AssistantOrganizational Ecology and Social Movement Analyses

Professors Susan Olzak and Michael Hannan Stanford University, Department of Sociology

and Graduate School of Business.

1997-1998: Research Assistant Social Network Analysis, Stanford University. Professor

Mark Granovetter, Sociology Department

Education

2005: Doctorate in Design Studies, Harvard University

2002: M.S., Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1998: B.S., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University (Graduate with Distinction)

Grants Received

National Science Foundation 2011-2014 $254,000

1057137- Science and Society

Division

UCLA Faculty Research Grants 2010-present $5,000

IMLS Natl Leadership Grant 2009 present $352,000

Google Grants 2008 present $12,000

The Christensen Fund 2007-2008 $50,000

(research in Central Asia)

National Science Foundation 2006-2009 $300,000

0621016 Science and Society

Division

California Institute for IT and 2006-7 $20,500

Telecommunications (Cal IT2),

ICT Development Research

UCLA Academic Senate 2006 $10,000

The Christensen Fund 2006 $20,000

(research in Central Asia)

UC Humanities Research Inst- 2006 2008 $20,000

itute, South Asian Web Research

Public Outreach

Podcast Interview Revolution and Ruin Shareable Blog, February 2, 2012.

Interview with the Washington Post, December 19, 2011 Is there Hope for Social Media in

North Korea? ; in print, Sunday Edition, December 25, 2011.

Srinivasan, R. Occupying Physical Space, Front Page, The Huffington Post, December 2-3,

2011.

Featured Story on UCLA s Home Page (Ucla.edu): Social Media Not To Blame Tracing

Ramesh Srinivasan s Research on Technologies and Politics in Egypt, By Cynthia Lee, August

24th Sept 1st, 2011

Srinivasan, R. The Net Worth of Open Networks, Front Page, The Huffington Post,

February 15th, 2011.

August, 2011 National Public Radio Morning Edition interview on Social Media and

Political Movements, with Steve Inskeep

Op/Ed Piece The Washington Post Srinivasan, R. London, Egypt, and the Nature of

Social Media, August 11, 2011

Featured Story on USC (University of Southern California) Home Page (USC.edu):

Race and Cyberspace By Pamela Johnson Featuring Ramesh Srinivasan s Research at

USC, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, August 10, 2011.

5 Myths About Social Media, Washington Post, Outlook Section, October 2 2011.

EDITORIAL SERVICES TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (e.g., serving

as a reviewer or editor)

Program Committee Member, 2012, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media,

Dublin, Ireland.

I-Conference 2010 Program Committee Member, University of Washington I-School

Associate Editor, Open Development and ICTs for Development, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada

ASIST 2011 Economic, Political and Social Issues Track, Committee Member (chairs: Nadia

Caidi and Steven Jackson)

Advisory Board Member, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Initiative in Media

Arts and Education, 2010-Present

Proposal Reviewer/Panelist, National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic

Sciences (2011).

Reviewer, HICSS (Hawaii IEEE International Conference on Systems Sciences)

Programme Committee Member: CATAC, Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and

Communication, 2008.

Invited Reviewer and Panelist, National Science Foundation Division of Information and

Intelligent Systems (2007, 2008, 2009)

Invited Workshop Speaker at NSF-sponsored Techology and Social Participation Meeting, at

Xerox PARC Palo Alto, December, 2009.

Associated Editor, IDRC Canada (World Bank), ICTs, Openness, and International

Development, IDRC Press, Forthcoming.

Refereed Scholarly Journal Publications

2005: Srinivasan, Ramesh Revolutionizing Information Architectures within Learning-

focused web sites in E-learning and Virtual Science Centers (Idea Group, eds: Subramaniam

and Tan)

Older Theses and Refereed Conference Publications (Proceedings)

2006: Srinivasan, Ramesh Reinvoking Culture and Context in Digital Libraries and

Museums In Proceedings of the Information Architecture Summit (ASIS), 4/2006

Vancouver, Canada

2005: Srinivasan, Ramesh, Communities and Cultural Differentiation: Issues of

Ontologies, Metadata, and Knowledge Representation In Proceedings of 4S conference,

9/2005 Los Angeles, CA, USA

2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh Tribal Peace Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Dispersed

Native American Communities, In the Proceedings of International Conference Cultural

Heritage and Informatics (ICHIM), 9/2004 Berlin, Germany

2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh Mediation: Indigenous Ontologies and Design In proceedings

of the 4S EASST 9/2004 Paris, France

2004: Srinivasan, Ramesh Creating digital places for culture and community, Extended

Abstract Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing Conference 9/2004 Rome, Italy.

2003: Srinivasan, Ramesh Articulating the Digital Environment via Community-Generated

Ontologies, In the Proceedings of Digital Cities 9/03, (Springer-Verlag) Amsterdam

2003: Srinivasan, Ramesh Village Voice: A methodology, interface, and evaluation of

the collection of cultural heritage material, In the Proceedings of International

Conference Cultural Heritage and Informatics (ICHIM), 9/2003 Paris, France

2003: Srinivasan, Ramesh Village Voice: An architecture for online community

exhibitions, In the Proceedings of Museums and the Web 4/03, Charlotte

2001: Srinivasan, Ramesh, et. al., PhotoGlas, In the Proceedings of Conference on

Semiotics in Games and New Media 9/01, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Invited Lectures and Presentations

Invited Speaker, RFK Community High School, Media Arts Program, January 12, 2012

Invited Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop, University of Southern

California, August 3, 2011

Invited Lecture, March, 2011, Professor Henry Jenkins, Civic Media Symposium, Annenberg

School, University of Southern California

Invited Plenary Speaker Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and

Objects, University of Indiana, April 2011.

Invited Keynote Lecture A digitally diverse future, MERGE Lecture UNC Greensboro,

April 2011

Invited Panelist Chicago National Science Foundation, New Configurations of the

Virtual and Real, Chair: Geof Bowker and Ronald Cox, March 2011.

Invited Speaker, Technology @ State, United States State Department Open Standards and

Open Networks, Febraury 2011.

Invited Plenary Chair Open Video Conference, Open Video in India, New York, October

2010.

Invited Keynote Lecture MyLanguage Culturally Diverse Populations, Digital Media and

Social Inclusion, National Library of Australia, Sydney, Australia. August, 2010.

Invited Panelist Re-imagining the Archive, University of California Los Angeles,

November, 2010.

Invited Speaker Digital Religion, New York University, Center for Religion, Culture,

and Media, March 2010, Luce Foundation.

Invited Panelist Georgia Institute of Technology National Science Foundation Workshop

on Computing at the Margins, February 2010.

Invited Panelist Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), National Science Foundation Workshop

on Technology-Mediated Social Participation, December, 2009 (directed by Ben Shneidermann

and Jenny Preece)

Invited Speaker 2009 Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter, Brown University,

Department of Modern Culture and Media (Mellon Foundation Initiative)

Invited Speaker ASIST, 2009 Indigenous Approaches Toward Documentation, Vancouver,

Canada.

Invited Speaker Culture, Information, and New Media Natural History Museum, London,

ESRC Initiative on Cybergenomics and the Order of Things, 2009.

I-Conference Speaker/Paper Presentation, 2009, Mismatched Ontologies and ICT Information

Systems, Paper Presentation, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Invited Speaker, Ethnography By Design, UC Irvine Hosted by George Marcus

Plenary Session Speaker HASTAC II: Techno-Travels

and TeleMobility (with Katherine Hayles, Anna Everett)

Invited speaker Worldmaking in an Age of New Media, University of Wisconsin.

Invited Workshop Participant Networking Visual Culture, 2008.

Annenberg Center, USC.

Invited campus-wide speaker, UCLA, Interdisciplinarity and Information: Global Cultures.

Invited Speaker The Hewlett Foundation: Web 2.0 and Open

Resources with Kevin Kelley, and others.

Invited Speaker LAPnet How can preservation meet Participation, Annual Meeting,

2008

4SEASST Conference 2008, Invited Paper Presentation: Envisioning Grassroots Digital

Spaces, Panel: Mere Innovation (organizer: Lucy Suchman and Cori Hayden)

4SEASST Conference 2008, Organizer and Chair: Engaging Publics: Configuring Community as

Mediated Places (with Alberto Pepe, Lilly Nguyen and Lucy Suchman)

CATAC Conference 2008 (Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication), Digital

Public Spaces: Implications toward Cultural Memory and Participation, Nimes, France, June

2008.

Social Tagging, Digital Contact Zones, and Indigenous Media: Reflections, Cambridge

University (UK), CRASSH 2008.

Invited Speaker: Worldmaking in an Age of New Media UWM, April 2008.

Interdisciplinarity and Information: Global Cultures, Center for Information as

Evidence, UCLA, March 2008.

What is participatory in community archives? Guest presentation in IS 207 Professor

Mary Maack

Panelist, Information Studies Roundtable, Information Institutions and Professions,

2007-08

Panelist, Information Studies Roundtable, Information Retrieval, 2007-08

Bridging Discourses: Exploring the Relationship between Information Technology and

International Development, The I-Conference, 2008, UCLA(with Tapan Parikh, and Steven

Jackson)

Culture at the Interface: Collaborative Design and Information Management with Indigenous

Communities: The I-Conference, 2008. UCLA (with Kim Christen and Craig Dietrich)

Emergent Media and Embedded Cultures Technology Development Possibilities

California Institute for Information Technology (CALIT2) Feb 1 08

System Design Using Ethnography and Ethnomethodology UCLA, Prof. Christine Borgman,

Jan 08 IS282

Culture and Information: Re-focusing the parameters UCLA, Prof. Leah Lievrouw (guest

lecture) Dec 07

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, November 2007.

Center for Future Civic Media, MIT, November, 2007.

Activism, Communities, and New Media UCLA, Prof. Jean Francois Blanchette. (guest

lecture)

The Sarai Institute For Critical and Cultural Media Studies, New Delhi, India August,

Rural Transformation via

Intelligent Information Technologies The Satyam Corporation,

Hyderabad, India., July 07

The Economics of Localized Community Technologies Institute for Financial Management

and Research, Madras, IIT, India., July 07

Invited Speaker The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras India: Thinking about

Culture in ICT Development Schemes: Lessons from India July 07

Invited Lecture: New Network Theory Information Societies with Locally-grounded

Systems June, 07 Amsterdam

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media in Transition Conference: Envisiong Cross-

Cultural Grassroots Digital Spaces, April 07

Northwestern University Technology and Social Behavior Colloquium Series invited

Speaker: Cross-cultural discourses and digital systems: Reciprocal Interactions, May 07

University of Illinois, Graduate School of Information Sciences. : Community Informatics

in Global Systems, May 07

E-diaspora: Reconciling the Local and Global March 4, 07 The Metropolis Conference

panel on Immigration, Social Inclusion and Information Technologies.

Culture and Information Interdisciplinary Methods to Impact Socioeconomic Agendas

March 1, 2007 University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies.

Folksonomies, Tags, and Socially Constructed Digital Publishing, Association of Learned

and Professional Society Publishers, London. April, 07

The Digital City and its Cultural Flows National University of Singapore December,

2006. Invited Lecture.

Guest Lecture, Computers and Education (Noel Enyedy), Graduate School of Education and

Information Studies, UCLA, December, 06

Human Diversity and Social Inclusion in the I-World, Invited Presentation, The I-

Conference, University of Michigan, October, 2006.

Invited Manship Award Lecture Lousiana State University Departments of Communication

Studies and Design Studies, October, 06

Invited Lecture Development and Knowledge Connectivity: The President s PURA vision,

Tanjore, India (President APJ Abdul Kalam of India s PURA visit) July, 06.

Invited Lecture ICTs and Development Community Perspectives, The Byrraju/Satyam

Foundation, Hyderabad, India July, 06

Invited lecture Grassroots IT-facilitated Development, Microsoft Research

Corporation, Bangalore, India July, 06

Invited Lecture Developing Organizationally-tailored information systems, The Infosys

Corporation, Bangalore, India July, 06

The California State University (CSU)-India Knowledge Commission Educational Research

Summit, June 1, 06.

The US-India Summit on Information Technology, Science, and Research (co-hosted by the

Indian Ministry of Science and Technology and University of California), May 31, 06

Urban Sensing Summit Cultural Flows in the Digital Sensing Environment REMAP

Invited Speaker, UCLA, May 06

The World Bank E-Development Sector, Invited Public Lecture April 13, 06

Database Aesthetics Course Lecture April 25, 06 Department of Design Media Arts,

University of California, Los Angeles.

University of California at Los Angeles Guest Lecture Audiovisual Archiving in the

21st Century April 19, 06

Information Architecture Summit Reinvoking Culture and Context in Digital Libraries

and Museums Vancouver, Canada April, 06

University of California at Los Angeles Department of Information Studies, Public

Colloquium Lecture March 9, 06

New York University, Department of Anthropology and Media Studies Public Lecture

11/05

University of California at Los Angeles Department of Design Media Arts Public

Invited Lecture (http://dma.ucla.edu/events/calendar.php?ID=393), November 8, 05

University of California at Los Angeles Site Specifics Stat 260 (Mark Hansen) Guest

Lecture

4S (Social Studies of Science Annual Conference/Meeting) Panel moderator and presenter:

Communities and Cultural Differentiation: Issues of Ontologies and MetaData

Invited Lecture Stanford University s Kozemetsky Global Collaboratory Knowledge,

Beliefs, Institutions Hyderabad and Madurai, India (Stanford University), 8/05

University of California at San Diego Center for Study on Race and Ethnicity Public

Colloquium Lecture, 5/05

New York University Department of Culture and Media Colloquium Public Lecture, 5/05

University of California at Los Angeles Department of Information Studies Public

Lecture, 3/05

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Studies,

3/05

University of Georgia Grady College of Communication, 2/05

University of California at San Diego Department of Communication, 2/05

Sewanee College Department of Art and Visual Studies, 2/05

Galerie Der Forschung (Scientific Research) Vienna, Austria- 12/04

National Museum of Australia Conference on Communities and Museums Canberra,

Australia 11/04

Stanford University Department of Communication and Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory

Effort 11/04

Library of Congress, American Folklife Center Washington, 9/04

Ecole Des Mines (Public Lecture with Bruno Latour) Paris, France: 9/04

University of California at Santa Cruz Department of Anthropology, Public Lecture: 5/04

University of Madras and National Folklore Society of India (Chennai, India) Department

of Anthropology Public Lecture: 8/04

University of California at San Diego Sixth College Honors Seminar Public Lecture:

4/04

Harvard Graduate School of Design: Doctoral Seminar Public Lecture Digital Culture,

Space, and Society: 1/04

National Museum of Australia Invited Keynote Speaker: 8/02

National Communication Scholars Meeting (Boston) Public Lecture: 10/03

MIT Media Lab Europe E-Communities meeting: Dublin, Ireland 12/01

Courses Taught

10W INFSTD 275 Cultural Information Sources

10W INFSTD 227 Information Services for Culturally Div. Comms.

10F INFSTD 291A Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies

10F INFSTD289 The Cultural, Ontological, and Digital: Perspectives on Global Media

09S INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies

09S INFSTD 438A Archival Appraisal

09W INFSTD289 The Cultural, Ontological, and Digita: Perspectives on Global Media

09F INFSTD200 Information in Society

08W INFSTD 227 Information Services for Culturally Div. Comms.

08W INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies

08F INFSTD 291A Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies

08F INFSTD 275 Cultural Information Sources

08S INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies

08S INFSTD 438A Archival Appraisal

08W INFSTD 295 Information Seeking (doctoral seminar)

07F INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies

07W INFSTD 227 Information Services for Culturally Div. Comms.

06F INFSTD 200(1) Information Society

06F INFSTD 200(2) Information Society

06S INFSTD 275 Development of Cultural Info Sources

06S INFSTD 438A Archival Appraisal

06W INFSTD 20 Introduction to Information Studies

2005 UC San Diego Department of Ethnic Studies and College of Art, Culture and

Technology Ethnic Studies 197 Digital Media, Culture, and Ethnicity

Student Advising

Doctoral Adviser: David Kim, Alivia Zappas

Doctoral Committee Member: Alla Zollers, Katie Shilton, Ajit Pyati, Stasa Milojevic,

Alberto Pepe, Matt Mayernik

MLIS Thesis Committee Member: Kim Anderson, Emma Mejia, Robin Fitzpatrick, Steve Kutay,

Steve Bingo

Design Media Arts Thesis Committee Member: Jacob Tonski, Estevan Benson

University Service

UCLA Fulbright Committee 2011-Present

Admissions, Awards and Recruitment Committee, 2009 Present

Department of Information Studies (chair: John

Richardson)

UCLA Communication University China Initiative 2010 Present

(Invited Member, along with Dean of TFT, Anderson School)

UCLA Digital Humanities Steering Committee

Affiliated 2010 Present

Faculty

UC-Wide Steering Committee Member, Transliteracies 2009 Present

Multi-campus Research Group (dir: Alan Liu), NSF

Grant supported

UCLA Committee on Libraries and Scholarly 2009 Present

Communication Invited Member (chair: Chris Kelty)

Los Angeles Unified School District, Media Arts and 2009 Present

Studies Program, Advisory Committee Member

Department Diversity Committee September, 2008 Present

Faculty Executive Committee, GSEIS Fall, 2006 Spring, 2008

Doctoral Programs Committee Member 2005-2007

Ad Hoc Search Committee Member, Prof. Chris Kelty 2007-08

Ad Hoc Search Committee Member, Dept of Design 2007-08

and Media Arts, Media Theory Position

Ad Hoc Teaching Award Committee Member 2006-07

Design Media Arts, Dept. Thesis Committee 2007

General Skills and Interests

Ethnography, design, social capital, developmental economics, digital labor, intellectual

property, social movements, social network analysis, statistical modelling, ontologies,

videography

Extensive Field Experience Within:

. Africa (Egypt, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique)

. Asia (India, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,

Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey)

. Central and Latin America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica,

Panama, Honduras, Belize)

. Australasia, Micronesia, Melanesia (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji)

. Europe (NL, Germany, Ireland, France, Russia, U.K, Italy, Belgium, Belarus, Greece,

Poland, Czech Republic)

Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Tamil, Dutch/Nederlandse, Russian

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