Ramesh Srinivasan
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Ramesh Srinivasan | |
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| Occupation(s) | Professor and Author |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.S., Industrial Engineering (1998)
M.S., Media Arts and Sciences (2002) Ph.D., Design and Technology Studies (2005) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Technology and Society Studies |
| Sub-discipline | Digital Media, Cultural Studies, Global Politics, and Technological Ethics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
Ramesh Srinivasan (born 1976) is an American academic and professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in Design/Media Arts.[1]
Education
[edit]Srinivasan earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, followed by a master’s degree in Media Studies from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD in Design from Harvard University, where his research focused on the intersection of technology, design, and culture.[2] From 2004 to 2005, he served as a teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Department of Visual and Environmental Design.[3]
Career
[edit]Srinivasan has been a faculty member at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies and the Design/Media Arts department since 2005. He regularly appears on The Young Turks and is founder/host of the Utopias Podcast.[4]
He is also the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab,[5] which examines how new media technologies impact businesses, economics, cultures, politics, labor, and the environment through collaborations with global partners. He is on the board of directors for Digital Democracy,[6] which works with land protectors in the Amazon.
Srinivasan previously served as a national surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign and as an Innovation policy committee member for President Biden.[7]
Writing and appearances
[edit]Srinivasan's books include Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World, After the Internet with Adam Fish, and Beyond the Valley, which Forbes listed as a top ten tech book in 2019.[8]
He has given TEDx Talks, and made appearances on MSNBC, and Public Radio International.[9][10]
Srinivasan has worked with bloggers who overthrew the recent authoritarian Kyrgyz regime,[11][12][13] non-literate tribal populations in India to study how literacy emerges through uses of technology,[14] and traditional Native American communities to study how non-Western understandings of the world can introduce new ways of looking at cultural heritage and the future of the internet and networked technologies.[15][16][17] His work has impacted contemporary understandings of media studies, anthropology and sociology, design, and economic and political development studies.[18]
Professional affiliations
[edit]Srinivasan is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Anthropological Association, and a member of the editorial boards of Science, Technology, & Human Values, International Journal of E-Politics, and Information Technologies and International Development.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh (2020-01-28). "Americans need a 'digital bill of rights'. Here's why | Ramesh Srinivasan". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ^ "Ramesh Srinivasan | UCLA GSEIS". gseis.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-01-19. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ^ "Skoll | Ramesh Srinivasan". Retrieved 2024-07-03.
- ^ Harmon, Joanie. "Ramesh Srinivasan Explores "Utopias"". UCLA School of Education & Information Studies. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
- ^ "Digital Democracy". www.digital-democracy.org. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
- ^ "Digital Democracy". www.digital-democracy.org. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
- ^ "Democratize the Internet". jacobin.com. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ^ "Professor's book listed among Forbes' Top 10 Technology Books of 2019".
- ^ MSNBC (2017-03-13), How President Donald Trump's Team Uses Social Media To Impact The Public | Morning Joe | MSNBC, retrieved 2017-04-28
- ^ The Young Turks (2017-04-08), Data, Trump, and Our World - Conversation with Ramesh Srinivasan, retrieved 2017-04-28
- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh; Fish, Adam (2009). "Internet Authorship: Social and Political Implications within Kyrgyzstan". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 14 (3): 559–580. doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01453.x.
- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh. (2010) "The Mail: A letter in response to Malcolm Gladwell's article" The New Yorker, 25 October 2010.
- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh. (2011) "The Net Worth of Open Networks" The Huffington Post, 15 February 2011.
- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh. "Reflective Media and Policy in Developing Nations" Archived 2011-03-08 at the Wayback Machine (blog post)
- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh. (2007). "Ethnomethodological Architectures: The Convergence Between an Information System and the Cultural Landscape." Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 58(5): 723-733
- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh. (2006). "Indigenous, Ethnic, and Cultural Articulations of New Media." International Journal of Cultural Studies 9(4): 497-518.
- ^ Srinivasan, Ramesh, Katherine M. Becvar, Robin Boast, and Jim Enote. (2010). "Diverse knowledges and contact zones within the digital museum." Science, Technology, and Human Values 35(5): 735-768
- ^ Merl, Christina. (2007) "A challenging view on the future of global knowledge sharing. Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Rural Development News 1:13-16.
- ^ "Ramesh Srinivasan". Ramesh Srinivasan. 2024-04-25. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
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