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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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International Conference: The New Urban Question - Urbanism beyond Neo-Liberalism on Nov. 26th-28th in Amsterdam -

This looks like a great conference for those working on urban issues. I have sworn off conferences until I finish my fieldwork - so I must resist the force!

“The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo-liberalism” is the title of the 4th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) that will take place from November 26th to 28th, 2009 at Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The theme of the conference is about the recovery of the discipline of Urbanism under the conditions of urbanization and urban transformation, ecological threats and economical crises.

The conference will be organized in the framework of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) by the Department of Urbanism, TU Delft and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) and the Municipality of Amsterdam as well as other participating universities of the IFoU-network.

June 29