Links

My Places:

My People:

  • Jofish Kaye, who works on technologies that support intimacy, and on the problem of evaluation in HCI, and a variety of other thought-provoking projects
  • Shay David, whose work on Open Source software is excellent in both depth and scope
  • Paul Dourish, my advisor at UC Irvine and a leader in the critical studies movement in the HCI community
  • Phoebe Sengers, my committee member at Cornell, leader of the Culturally Embedded Computing Research Group, and a leader in the critical studies movement in the HCI community
  • Lilly Irani, who works on digital labor sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, and on Postcolonial Computing, specifically transnational design contexts in India, and who also maintains the fabulous blog Difference Engines
  • Silvia Lindtner, who works on gaming and digital cultures in China
  • Irina Shklovski, professor at ITU in Copenhagen, my fabulous co-author on the GPS and Power paper, who works on digital communication practices that connect diaspora or natural-disaster-afflicted communities
  • Emily Dean who takes pictures of Mars
  • John Downer, who wrote an award-winning dissertation on engineers who throw chickens at jet engines. No kidding.
  • David Ribes, my colleague at Georgetown who works on cyberinfrastructure.
  • Molly Steenson, Girl Wonder.
  • Amin Ghaziani, Princeton Society of Fellows friend who does brilliant work on the gaybourhood
  • Biella Coleman, who studies hackers and is doing an ethnography with Anonymous. No kidding.
  • Melissa Mazmanian, who studies blackberries and work/life balance and is a wonderful resource on technology in organizations

My music

  • While at Cornell I played with the CU Jazz Bands
  • Clips on Myspace
  • Clips on YouTube
  • Campbell Vertesi, my brother the Opera Singer
  • David Vertesi, my brother the Rock Star
  • Hey Ocean!, my brother's awesome band