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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. Cultural Bytes blogroll.

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: • 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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Spending time with my dissertation chair in Shanghai. Bye Richard Madsen!

how many people get to see their dissertation advisor when they are in the field! Not many!

I arrived in Shanghai from Wuhan and spent the night at Judy and Richard Madsen’s place. Richard Madsen has been teaching a class on China and Religion for 1 year at Fudan University. They are moving in two days back to the states - so it worked out perfectly to see richard and give him an upate on my work in Wuhan.

We talked about recent changes in migration. It was amazing to see him after rethinking my dissertation topic. i feel very prepared for Beijing now!

I want to emphasize to everyone how important it is to chose a great dissertation advisor who will support your work and also be an emotional cheerleader through the grad school process. I still don’t know why this damn Phd road can be so intense and unpredictable - it should be relatively luxurious - spend time reading- theorizing - building - but somehow it can be a very stressful time period. Richard - thank you for being the best advisor ever! You always inspire me to see life in a new way.

June 29