News

Research Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Irani, L. and M.S. Silberman. (forthcoming) Turkopticon: Interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk" Proceedings of CHI 2013, Apr 28-May 2, 2013.(20% acceptance rate, awarded best paper)

K. Philip, L. Irani, and P. Dourish. 2012. Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 27(1), 3-29.

L. Irani, P. Dourish, and M. Mazmanian. 2010. Shopping for Sharpies in Seattle: Mundane Infrastructures of Transnational Design. Proceedings of ICIC 2010, Aug 19-20, 2010. Copenhagen, Denmark. (39% acceptance rate, awarded best paper)

L. Irani, J. Vertesi, P. Dourish, K. Philip and B. Grinter. 2010. Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development. Proceedings of CHI 2010, Apr. 10-15, 2010. Atlanta, GA. (22% acceptance rate)

A. Williams, L. Irani. 2010. There's Methodology in the Madness: Toward Critical HCI Ethnography. in Extended Abstracts of CHI 2010 (alt.chi), Apr. 10-15, 2010. Atlanta, GA. (42% acceptance rate)

J. Ross, L. Irani, M.S. Silberman, A. Zaldivar, B. Tomlinson. 2010. Who are the Crowdworkers? Shifting Demographics in Mechanical Turk. in Extended Abstracts of CHI 2010 (alt.chi), Apr. 10-15, 2010. Atlanta, GA. (42% acceptance rate)

Silberman, M. S., L. Irani, and J. Ross. Ethics and tactics of professional crowdwork. XRDS 17(2): 39-43, 2010.

L. Irani, R. Jeffries, and A. Knight. 2010. Rhythms and Plasticity: Television and Temporality in the Home in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Springer.

L. Irani and P. Dourish. 2009. Postcolonial Interculturality in Late Breaking Papers: International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, Feb. 20-21, 2009. Stanford, CA. (Awarded best short paper)

L. Irani, G. Hayes, and P. Dourish. 2008. Situated Practices of Looking: Visual Practice in an Online World in Proceedings of CSCW 2008, Nov. 8-12, 2008. San Diego, CA. (23% acceptance rate)

L. Irani. 2004. Understanding gender and confidence in CS course culture in Proceedings of ACM SIG Computer Science Education 2004. (28% acceptance rate)

E. Roberts, L. Irani, and M. Kassianidou. 2002. Encouraging women in computer science in Proceedings of ACM SIG Computer Science Education 2002.

Edited Volumes

Kelty, C., L. Irani and N. Seaver, eds. 2012. Limn: Clouds and Crowds. Createspace.

Book Chapters

Irani, L. 2012. "Microworking the Crowds” in Limn: Clouds and Crowds (eds. Kelty, Irani & Seaver), Seattle: Createspace and on web.

Workshops and Consortia

Irani, L. 2010. HCI on the Move: Methods, Culture, Values accepted to CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium, in Extended Abstracts, ACM SIGCHI 2010. Apr. 6-10, 2010. Atlanta, GA.

Irani, L."Insight Forum: Crowdsourcing” at Commonwealth Club. San Francisco, CA, Mar 3, 2010.

Irani, L.Accomplishing Intercultural Interaction accepted to CSCW 2010 Doctoral Colloquium. Feb. 7, 2010. Savannah, GA.

Irani, L. and P. Dourish. Portability of Design Methods: Cultural Differences in the Creation of Technological Knowledge accepted to CHI 2008 Workshop on ICT4D, April 5-6, 2008

Research Presentations

Irani, L. "The Anthropologist at the Hackathon: Cultures and Ruptures of Innovation Practice." American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Nov 16, 2012.

Irani, L. "Making Up Designers: Building a Scene." Relocating Science and Technology: Postcolonial STS, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Ethnologische Forschung. Jul 18-20, 2012. (15% acceptance rate)

Irani, L. "Designing Citizenship: Empathy, Innovation, and Social Reform in Elite India." Stanford South Asia by the Bay: Graduate Student Conference, Stanford. May 9-11, 2012.  (50% acceptance rate)

Irani, L. "‘Human-as-a-service’: Simulating Computing with Amazon Mechanical Turk" American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal. Nov 19, 2011.

Irani, L. "Shopping for Sharpies in Seattle: Doing Design Transnationally" at Berkeley Institute of Design. Berkeley, CA, Jul 20, 2010.

Irani, L. "Designing Consumers, Designing Development: Selling ‘Safe Water’ in India" at University of California, Irvine Women’s Studies Brown Bag. Irvine, CA. Apr 10, 2010.

Irani, L. "Designing Development: Constructing a ‘Poor’ User in Andhra Pradesh." Cornell University Dept. of Information Studies: CenCom Research Group, Ithaca, NY. Nov 12, 2009.

Irani, L. Agency and Exploitation in Mechanical Turk at Internet as Playground and Factory Conference at The New School, New York, NY, Nov 13, 2009.

Irani, L. Designing Development: Constructing a ‘Poor’ User in Andhra Pradesh.” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2009, Washington, DC. Oct 31, 2009.

L. Irani. Locating the Politics of Design Ethnography, as part of panel Towards a Postcolonial Information Studies. Talk given at iConference 2009. Chapel Hill, NC.

L. Irani. Communication Assemblages in Second Life. Talk given at Cultures of Virtual Worlds Conference at UC Irvine, Aprll 25, 2008.

Dourish, P., Hayes, G., Irani, L., Lee, C.P., Lindtner, S., Nardi, B., Patterson, D., Tomlinson, B., Informatics at UC Irvine. Research Landscapes Poster, CHI 2008.

Russell, D., L. Irani, and R. Jefferies. Everyday Sensemaking: Google Notebook and Google Spreadsheets. Talk given at Human Computer Interaction Consortium 2007

Technical Reports

Ross, J., A. Zaldivar, L. Irani, B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Who are the Turkers? Worker Demographics in Amazon Mechanical Turk." Technical Report SocialCode-2009-01.

Undergraduate Thesis

A Different Voice: Women Exploring Stanford Computer Science (pdf) submitted for honors in Science, Technology, and Society 2003. Awarded Stanford University Firestone Medal for Undergraduate Research.

Other writing

Difference Engines is where I blog with others about differencing, feminist theory, and technoculture. As a blog, it is an experiment in collaborative knowledge production among feminist, critical race, and postcolonial studies of technoscience scholars often scattered all over the world.

Ambidextrous Magazine - I was an editor on this magazine for researchers, academics, and designers about the people and processes of design from 2006 to 2008.