Research Interests

- The interactions between new media technologies and global cultures and communities

- The use of design and social-science perspectives to analyze the impacts of information technology on global education, health, economics, politics, governance, and social movements, and infrastructure

- knowledge management, web 2.0, semantic web, and information systems, ontologies

- information technology and international development

- indigenous and local knowledge systems and new media

- mobile media, social movements, ethnography, critical design studies

Contact Information

UCLA - GSE&IS, Office 222
300 Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
USA

310-206-8320 (phone), 310-206-4460 (fax)

srinivasan@gseis.ucla.edu -or - srinivasan@ucla.edu

selection of Courses

- Information Services in Diverse Cultural Communities - IS227 - Winter 0809

- Introduction to Information Studies (IS20) - Winter 0809

- Doctoral Seminar: Theoretical Traditions in Information Studies - Fall 0809

- Doctoral Seminar: Information Seeking - Winter 07-08

- Information And Society - IS 200 - Fall 06

- Archival Appraisal - IS438A - Spring 05-06

- Cultural Information/Digital Media - IS275 - Spring 05-06 / Fall 0809

Education

Harvard University - Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Doctorate in Design (9/02-6/05)