Writing

Academic Publications

L. Irani, G. Hayes, and P. Dourish. "Situated Practices of Looking: Visual Practice in an Online World" in Proceedings of CSCW 2008, Nov. 8-12, 2008 (forthcoming).

L. Irani. Communication Assemblages in Second Life talk given at Cultures of Virtual Worlds Conference at UC Irvine, Aprll 25, 2008

L. Irani and P. Dourish. Portability of Design Methods: Cultural Differences in the Creation of Technological Knowledge accepted to CHI 2008 Workshop on ICT4D, April 5-6, 2008

Russell, D., L. Irani, and R. Jefferies. "Everyday Sensemaking: Google Notebook and Google Spreadsheets." Human Computer Interaction Consortium 2007.

L. Irani. Understanding gender and confidence in CS course culture in Proceedings of ACM SIG Computer Science Education 2004

E. Roberts, L. Irani, and M. Kassianidou. Encouraging women in computer science in Proceedings of ACM SIG Computer Science Education 2002

Undergraduate Thesis

A Different Voice: Women Exploring Stanford Computer Science (pdf) submitted for honors in Science, Technology, and Society 2003. Awarded Stanford University Firestone Medal for Undergraduate Research.

Fun

Ambidextrous Magazine - I'm an editor on this magazine for researchers, academics, and designers about the people and processes of design.

• "Design-it-yourself: A Conversation with Julia Lupton" in Ambidextrous issue #10 (forthcoming)
• Designing a Better Future: A Conversation about Technology, Politics, and Cultures with Fred Turner and Alex Steffen in Ambidextrous issue #6

Rahrahfeminista is my personal blog.