Event overview
Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group invite you to join us for a seminar with Dr Elisa Oreglia discussing her ethnographic research on first-time internet users in Myanmar
In 2014, the mobile phones landscape of Myanmar changed almost overnight. Two new operators disrupted the monopoly of the state-owned company, pushing the price of SIM cards down to USD1,5, building new towers throughout the country, and offering fast connectivity and cheap deals for smartphones. Two years later, almost half the population uses a mobile, and 80% of these users have a smartphone. Drawing from ethnographic research carried out since 2014, this talk will focus on the experiences of first-time Internet users in semi-urban and rural areas in Myanmar. It will describe what it means to experience the Internet through apps, rather than through a browser, and reflect on what lessons can be drawn for human-computer interaction and interface design for marginal populations.
Elisa Oreglia is a lecturer at the Centre for Media Studies, SOAS University of London. She received her PhD in Information Management and Systems from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is about the diffusion, appropriation, and use of digital technologies among marginal communities in Asia, with a specific focus on rural users in China and farming communities in Myanmar. https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff104142.php
Dates & times
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7 Mar 2017 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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