Contributors

Rachelle Annechino is a research associate at the Prevention Research Center at PIRE and a recent graduate from the School of Information at UC Berkeley. She also works with the Center for Digital Storytelling.

You can find her on twitter @surrogatekey.

Jenna Burrell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Her book Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana is forthcoming with the MIT Press. Before pursuing her PhD she was an Application Concept Developer in the People and Practices Research Group at Intel Corporation. Her interests span many research topics including theories of materiality, user agency, transnationalism, post-colonial relations, digital representation, and ICTs in Africa.

Her personal website is here.

Heather Ford is a South African living in California. She recently graduated from the UC Berkeley School of Information where she explored how to design for privacy-aware online educational systems. Now she works as an ethnographer at Ushahidi  where she is studying how online communities understand and perform verification or confirmation of reports contributed by the “crowd” and how Wikipedians manage and debate about sources on the encyclopedia. At night she dreams about writing books and finding time to draw. Her home blog is at hblog.org.

Tricia Wang  listens to people’s stories and watches people play. As a cultural sociologist, she uses a range of ethnographic methods to create socially and commerciallly relevant insights about how people use digital tools in their day to day lives. She works with strategists, engineers, and designers to understand the intersection between people and new technologies. Her website and the many blogs can be found at triciawang.com. She writes about culture and technology at Cultural Bytes and her fieldwork in China on Bytes of China. Follow her on twitter @triciawang.

We are always looking for guest contributors! Our first guest contributor was Sam Ladner who wrote about the different ways that ethnography is used in industry and academia. Email us if you are interested in becoming a contributor or if you have any questions!