Tania is a feminist researcher from the Global South. Her areas of research are related with how gender dynamics perform science and technology popularization. She has worked with a diversity of topics, between them with science museums and free software communities in Colombia and India, and more recently with media coverage of forensic science in Colombia. Right now she is working towards a postcolonial understanding of OLPC programs and its conditions of possibility in southern countries (particularly Latin American countries). http://mobilityshifts.org/
Matthew K. Gold is Assistant Professor at New York City College of Technology (English) and CUNY Graduate Center (Interactive Technology and Pedagogy). Recent and forthcoming work includes articles in The Journal of Modern Literature, On the Horizon, and Kairos, and a chapter in From A to : Keywords of Markup (Minnesota 2010). He is currently editing a collection of essays on recent debates in the Digital Humanities that will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in January 2012. His projects include “Looking for Whitman” (http://lookingforwhitman.org), a multi-campus experiment in digital pedagogy sponsored by two NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, and a recently awarded $3.1 million Title V Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. He serves as Project Director of the CUNY Academic Commons (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu) and Co-Director of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative. http://mobilityshifts.org/
Elizabeth Losh is the Director of the Culture, Art, and Technology program at Sixth College at U.C. San Diego. She is the author of "Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes." She writes about institutions as digital content-creators, the discourses of the "virtual state," the media literacy of policy makers and authority figures, and the rhetoric surrounding regulatory attempts to limit everyday digital practices. http://mobilityshifts.org/
Nitin Sawhney is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Media Studies and Film at the New School in New York City. His research, teaching and creative practice engages the critical role of technology, artistic interventions and DIY cultures among communities in contested spaces. He previously served as a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). http://mobilityshifts.org/
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