Greetings from Mexico City! I’m on vacation, a tagalong for a commercial that Motion Theory is shooting. I keep having dreams about editing and rewriting, but I have nothing to do until February 3, when I have my oral defense. I think this is what they call vacation. First: the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium was… Continue reading weeknote 02 and 03
Tag: mobile phones
Core77 posts about my mobile phone sharing in India research
When I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I gave a talk at Giant Ant and at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. I presented about my research on urban mobile phone sharing, conducted while at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore. I’d had many discussions with Steve Portigal about his Bangalore experience in comparison to mine:… Continue reading Core77 posts about my mobile phone sharing in India research
Mobile Modalities: Sharing Mobile Phones in Urban India
Next week and the week after, I’m going to be talking about the work I did at Microsoft Research India: an ethnographic study in Bangalore, India on mobile phone sharing and how it plays out in domestic and urban space. I’d love to see you there. In New York, I’ll be speaking on Wednesday, September… Continue reading Mobile Modalities: Sharing Mobile Phones in Urban India