silvia lindtner

What's new:

I am excited to share the good news that our proposal for a special issue of the Human Computer Interaction Journal on "Transnational HCI: Humans, Computers and Interactions Considered Globally" (eds Shklovski, Vertesi, Lindtner, Suchman) was accepted and that we just sent out the call for participation (see more here). The special issue was motivated by two workshops we had organized on the same topic at the Ubicomp and CHI conference in 2010 and 2011. We are looking forward to submissions from a range of discplines.

In April, 2011, I co-organized together with Janet Vertesi and Irina Shklovski a workshop for the international conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI'11 entitled "Transnational HCI. Humans, Computers and Interactions in Transnational Contexts." This workshop is a follow-up on our Ubicomp Transnational Times workshop in 2010 and deepened the conversation engaging a wider audience on themes such as globalization, critical reflections on technology as enabler for development and democracy, transnational imaginations and values in cross-cultural collaboration and deisgn. We received over 20 excellent submissions and enjoyed the engaging cross-disciplinary conversations!

End of March 2011, I was invited to give a talk at the Annual Conference of the AAS (Association for Asian Sudies) about my ethnographic research in China as part of the panel "Changing Social Configuration and New Media Technologies in Urban China" organized by Randy Kluver and supported by the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. In this talk, I drew out some analytical and thematic connections between my previous research on youth Internet participation and Internet counterculture and my most recent ethnographic study with transnational entrepreneurs, new media designers, makers and artists in urban China.

Marcella and my book chapter on China's many Internets is in the edited Volume "Online Society in China: Creating, Celebrating, and Instrumentalizing the Online Carnival" (eds David Kurt Herold and Peter Marolt) is out! Check out here the official website and here the pre-edited version.

Excited to share the good news that the paper that Paul Dourish and I wrote on "The Promise of Play: A New Approach towards Productive Play" will appear in the Games and Culture journal this year.

In September, 2010, I co-organized a workshop entitled "Transnational Times. Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology Design and Use" at the international conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Our participants came frome a diverse range of disciplines including HCI, anthropology, science and technology studies, medical informatics and mobile computing. Check out the workshop website for more detail.

I travelled to Beijing in July, 2010, to present together with my collaborator Marcella Szablewicz at the Chinese Internet Reserch Conference (July 28-29). Check out our paper here . Drawing on Marcy's and my own ethnographic research in China over the last four years, we trace diverse youth practices around digital media use and how these practices and the sites where they take place evolved over the last four years in relation to changing policies and urban infrastructures.

My article on "Google.cn & beyond: The Politics of Digital Media" just went up on the fabulous China Beat blog, founded and hosted by my dear friends and colleagues in UCI's history department and China studies group. I'd love your comments & feedback.

In March 2010, I participated in the conference on New Media, New Newsmakers, New Diplomacy co-organized by the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna. My essay was selected as one of the student submissions for the Milton Wolf Essay Contest [check out my essay]. Panelists at the conference included journalists, bloggers, NGO actors, academics and diplomats. It was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed the heated debates and interdisciplinary discussions.

February, 2010: Co-Organizer & Presenter at Panel on "Reconfiguring Productive Media Use: Urban Renewal and Being on the Move in China" at the First Conference on Digital Media and Learning, together with Paul Dourish, Jack Qiu, Tricia Wang, Elisa Oreglia. Check out my talk.

		\| about me \| research \| teaching \| publications \| CV
		Silvia M. Lindtner I am a PhD candidate in the department of Informatics at the University of California Irvine working with Paul Dourish as my advisor, and also closely with Tom Boellstorff, Mimi Ito, Melissa Mazmanian, Jeff Wasserstrom and Ken Anderson. My dissertation research focuses on cultural processes of technology production. I explore this question of techno-cultural production within the context of urban China, focusing on the relationship between political, economic and social re-design and everyday technology practice. Over the last five years, I have conducted ethnographic research with Chinese youths, IT professionals and a collective of electronic hackers, freelance designers, new media artists and bloggers, exploring how these various social groups design and use digital technologies to position themselves in the changing urban, social and political environment of China's cities today. My work investigates the role digital media play for imaginations of Chinese modernity and translocal ideas of open innovation, free culture, creativity and D.I.Y. (Do it yourself) technology production. At UCI, I can usually be found here: LUCI, the laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing at UC Irvine. Or you can contact me at: silvia.lindtner[at]uci.edu Currently, in part supported by a Chinese Government Scholarship, I am completing my thesis entitled, "Multi-sited Design: Translocal D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself), hacker and Internet counter culture in urban China." I am based out of Shanghai, China and Irvine, California.
		What's new: I am excited to share the good news that our proposal for a special issue of the Human Computer Interaction Journal on "Transnational HCI: Humans, Computers and Interactions Considered Globally" (eds Shklovski, Vertesi, Lindtner, Suchman) was accepted and that we just sent out the call for participation (see more here). The special issue was motivated by two workshops we had organized on the same topic at the Ubicomp and CHI conference in 2010 and 2011. We are looking forward to submissions from a range of discplines. In April, 2011, I co-organized together with Janet Vertesi and Irina Shklovski a workshop for the international conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI'11 entitled "Transnational HCI. Humans, Computers and Interactions in Transnational Contexts." This workshop is a follow-up on our Ubicomp Transnational Times workshop in 2010 and deepened the conversation engaging a wider audience on themes such as globalization, critical reflections on technology as enabler for development and democracy, transnational imaginations and values in cross-cultural collaboration and deisgn. We received over 20 excellent submissions and enjoyed the engaging cross-disciplinary conversations! End of March 2011, I was invited to give a talk at the Annual Conference of the AAS (Association for Asian Sudies) about my ethnographic research in China as part of the panel "Changing Social Configuration and New Media Technologies in Urban China" organized by Randy Kluver and supported by the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. In this talk, I drew out some analytical and thematic connections between my previous research on youth Internet participation and Internet counterculture and my most recent ethnographic study with transnational entrepreneurs, new media designers, makers and artists in urban China. Marcella and my book chapter on China's many Internets is in the edited Volume "Online Society in China: Creating, Celebrating, and Instrumentalizing the Online Carnival" (eds David Kurt Herold and Peter Marolt) is out! Check out here the official website and here the pre-edited version. Excited to share the good news that the paper that Paul Dourish and I wrote on "The Promise of Play: A New Approach towards Productive Play" will appear in the Games and Culture journal this year. In September, 2010, I co-organized a workshop entitled "Transnational Times. Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology Design and Use" at the international conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Our participants came frome a diverse range of disciplines including HCI, anthropology, science and technology studies, medical informatics and mobile computing. Check out the workshop website for more detail. I travelled to Beijing in July, 2010, to present together with my collaborator Marcella Szablewicz at the Chinese Internet Reserch Conference (July 28-29). Check out our paper here . Drawing on Marcy's and my own ethnographic research in China over the last four years, we trace diverse youth practices around digital media use and how these practices and the sites where they take place evolved over the last four years in relation to changing policies and urban infrastructures. My article on "Google.cn & beyond: The Politics of Digital Media" just went up on the fabulous China Beat blog, founded and hosted by my dear friends and colleagues in UCI's history department and China studies group. I'd love your comments & feedback. In March 2010, I participated in the conference on New Media, New Newsmakers, New Diplomacy co-organized by the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna. My essay was selected as one of the student submissions for the Milton Wolf Essay Contest [check out my essay]. Panelists at the conference included journalists, bloggers, NGO actors, academics and diplomats. It was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed the heated debates and interdisciplinary discussions. February, 2010: Co-Organizer & Presenter at Panel on "Reconfiguring Productive Media Use: Urban Renewal and Being on the Move in China" at the First Conference on Digital Media and Learning, together with Paul Dourish, Jack Qiu, Tricia Wang, Elisa Oreglia. Check out my talk.