Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan, Associate Professor at UCLA in information studies and design-media arts, is a scholar of media and culture, studying the modes by which new media technologies shape and are shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political dynamics. Srinivasan studies on bloggers and activists have focused on participants in recent revolutions in Egypt and Kyrgyzstan. His work in India has involved collaborations with rural and urban disenfranchised populations to study how media literacy may shape collective action. In addition, his work with Native American communities considers how non-Western understandings of the world can introduce new ways of looking at technological design and deployment. Srinivasan's media appearances include several TEDx talks, National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, The Young Turks and Public Radio International. His work bridges cultural studies from anthropological and sociological perspectives with key topics in design and computer sciences.

Activism, Design, ethnography, Indigenous Culture, media studies, Philosophy, Revolution (political or technological), Social Media