Lilly Christine Irani is an American academic whose research spans topics in computer science, communication studies, feminist studies, entrepreneurship, and microwork. She is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.[1]
Education and career
Irani graduated in 2004 from Stanford University with both a bachelor's degree in the Science, Technology, and Society program and a master's degree in computer science, specializing in human-computer interaction.[2] After working in user interface design at Google from 2003 to 2007,[3] she returned to graduate school, completing a Ph.D. in informatics at the University of California, Irvine in 2013.[2] Her dissertation, Designing Citizens in Transnational India, was supervised by Paul Dourish.[3]
She joined the University of California, San Diego faculty as an assistant professor of communications in 2013, and was tenured as an associate professor in 2019.[2] In 2023, she became the inaugural Faculty Director of the UC San Diego Labor Center.
Selected publications
Irani is the author of the book Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2019),[4] which won the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for Science, Technology, Engineering, or Medicine of the American Anthropological Association[5] as well as the 2020 Outstanding Book Award of the International Communication Association.[6] She is also the coauthor, with Jesse Marx, of the book Redacted (Taller California Books, 2021).
Her journal and conference papers include:
- Irani, Lilly; Vertesi, Janet; Dourish, Paul; Philip, Kavita; Grinter, Rebecca E. (2010), "Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development", in Mynatt, Elizabeth D.; Schoner, Don; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine; Hudson, Scott E.; Edwards, W. Keith; Rodden, Tom (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10-15, 2010, ACM, pp. 1311–1320, doi:10.1145/1753326.1753522, S2CID 3128663
- Ross, Joel; Irani, Lilly; Silberman, M. Six; Zaldivar, Andrew; Tomlinson, Bill (2010), "Who are the crowdworkers?: shifting demographics in mechanical turk", in Mynatt, Elizabeth D.; Schoner, Don; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine; Hudson, Scott E.; Edwards, W. Keith; Rodden, Tom (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010, Extended Abstracts Volume, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10-15, 2010, ACM, pp. 2863–2872, doi:10.1145/1753846.1753873, S2CID 11386257
- Irani, Lilly; Silberman, M. Six (2013), "Turkopticon: interrupting worker invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk", in Mackay, Wendy E.; Brewster, Stephen A.; Bødker, Susanne (eds.), 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '13, Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013, ACM, pp. 611–620, doi:10.1145/2470654.2470742, S2CID 207203679
- Irani, Lilly (2015), "The cultural work of microwork", New Media Soc., 17 (5): 720–739, doi:10.1177/1461444813511926, S2CID 377594
References
- ^ "Lilly Irani", Profiles, UC San Diego Department of Communication, retrieved 2021-11-03
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, 2021, retrieved 2021-11-03
- ^ a b Irani, Lilly Christine (2013), Designing Citizens in Transnational India, University of California, Irvine, ProQuest 1413316761; see especially vita, p. xi.
- ^ Reviews of Chasing Innovation:
- Barsoum, Nadia H. (2020), Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 43 (4): 93, doi:10.1353/jsa.2020.0022, JSTOR 10.33428/jsoutasiamiddeas.43.4.0090, S2CID 243222844
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Issar, Shiv (March 2021), Science, Technology and Society, 26 (1): 170–173, doi:10.1177/0971721820960016, S2CID 232124895
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Prasse-Freeman, Elliott (December 2020), Asian Journal of Social Science, 48 (5–6): 658–660, doi:10.1163/15685314-04805013, S2CID 230623038
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Roy, Tirthankar (2019), Business History Review, 93 (4): 854–856, doi:10.1017/s0007680519001466, S2CID 214253732
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Yoo, Sangwoon (December 2020), East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 14 (4): 685–688, doi:10.1215/18752160-8772295, S2CID 228854650
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Barsoum, Nadia H. (2020), Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 43 (4): 93, doi:10.1353/jsa.2020.0022, JSTOR 10.33428/jsoutasiamiddeas.43.4.0090, S2CID 243222844
- ^ "Diana Forsythe Prize", Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing, American Anthropological Association, retrieved 2021-11-03
- ^ "Indian American Author Lilly Irani Wins Outstanding Book Award by International Communication Association", The Indian Panorama, 5 June 2020
External links
- Home page
- Lilly Irani publications indexed by Google Scholar
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