Hi, this is where I (Tricia Wang) track my field notes and thoughts on the socio-cultural contexts of technology usage in low-income communities. More about Cultural Bytes.

I am currently conducting ethnographic work with urban migrants in China and a rural migrant sending village in Mexico. Read more about my research. Let's Talk!

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Other Sites:
::YouMeiTI - I blog about Chinese Youth, Media and Information Technology
::Digital Urbanisms - blog about people + mapping + cities + technology
::Hi Tricia - my personal blog
::Tricia is Reading This! - interesting links from my online reading list
::Dichos y Vida - quotes make me happy

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Most Popular Posts:

• My Suggestions for Making Google’s Services More Relevant for Non-Elite Chinese Users (involves some ethnography!)
• Interrogating the "Developing" vs "Developed" Country dichotomy: Assumptions, technologies, and Americanism - VOTE FOR OPTION B!
• In Wuhan, China, setting up fieldwork site
• Cloud Computing for Researchers - Mendeley Your Life!
• Doggy Cellphones, Culturally Relevant Technologies, and Doggies in China: Dog Bark Sensing Collars and Sensors
• Interpretive Magic!: Ethnoconsumerism with Prof. Alladi Venkatesh
• Is the cellphone a mundane non "technology" among the elite?: From Huffington Post to Rupaul's Drag Race
• Cultural Fractals: The Recursiveness of Practice
• Livescribe Pulse SmartPen: An Ethnographer's dream tool?
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Most Recent Posts:
• Internet cafes in China: The Closest Thing to a Playground for Migrant Children
• New Product: Microsoft Mischief, an interactive student/teacher teaching tool for the classroom
• Leaving for 3rd ethnographic fieldwork trip to Mexico in a migrant-sending Oaxacan village.
• Corporate Responsibility in the Age of Algorithms: HP overlooks "Dark Skin" users for its new HP Cam
• great quote about ethnography
• Map-hole: Technologies of the Mundan and Inscriptions of Power
• I'm starting to think about how to visualize my data
• flash ethnography: observations of a doctor's use of mobile tech with a patient
• Erving Goffman, Cellphones, Social Cohesion
• Livescribe Pulse SmartPen: An Ethnographer's dream tool?
• Village Technologies: Remote Fertilizer Monitoring

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