Completed Ph.D. Dissertations

2017

Galen Thomas Panger. Emotion in Social Media. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Steven Weber. University of California, Berkeley. 2017.

Andrew Lee Brooks. Decision Making Under Radical Uncertainty: A Multiple Case Comparison of Companies Creating New Technologies Featuring New Forms of Personal Data. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Coye Cheshire. University of California, Berkeley. 2017.

2016

Laura Devendorf. Strange and Unstable Fabrication. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Kimiko Ryokai. University of California, Berkeley. 2016.

2015

R. Stuart Geiger. robots.txt: An Ethnographic Investigation of Automated Software Agents in User-Generated Content Platforms. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Jenna Burrell. University of California, Berkeley. 2015.

Rajesh Veeraraghavan. Open Governance and Surveillance: A Study of the National Rural Employment Program in Andhra Pradesh, India. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: AnnaLee Saxenian and Peter B. Evans. University of California, Berkeley. 2015.

Bob W. Bell, Jr. Creating Regional Advantage: The Emergence of IT-Enabled Services in Nairobi and Cape Town. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Jenna Burrell. University of California, Berkeley. 2015.

2014

Ashwin Jacob Mathew. Where in the World is the Internet? Locating Political Power in Internet Infrastructure. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: John Chuang and Coye Cheshire. University of California, Berkeley. 2014.

2013

Elisa Oreglia. From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Jenna Burrell. University of California, Berkeley. 2013.

Neha Kumar. Mobiles, Media, and the Agency of Indian Youth. Ph.D. disssertation. Advisor: Tapan Parikh. University of California, Berkeley. 2013.

Elizabeth Sarah Goodman. Delivering Design: Performance and Materiality in Professional Interaction Design. Ph.D. disssertation. Advisor: Nancy A. Van House. University of California, Berkeley. 2013.

2012

Megan Finn. Californians and Their Earthquakes: Post-Earthquake Public Information Infrastructures. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: AnnaLee Saxenian. University of California, Berkeley. 2012.

Daniela Rosner. Modern Craft: Locating the Material in a Digital Age. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Kimiko Ryokai. University of California, Berkeley. 2012.

Christo Sims. The Cutting Edge of Fun: Making Work Play at the New American School. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: Paul Duguid and Jenna Burrell. University of California, Berkeley. 2012.

Melissa Densmore. The Evolving Braid: An Ethnography of Technology Change in Uganda. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: AnnaLee Saxenian & John Chuang. University of California, Berkeley. 2012.

Joshua Blumenstock. Essays on the Economic Impacts of Mobile Phones in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: AnnaLee Saxenian. University of California, Berkeley. 2012.

2011

Janaki Srinivasan. The political life of information: “Information” and the practice of governance in India. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: AnnaLee Saxenian. University of California, Berkeley. 2011.

Dilan D. Mahendran. Race and Computation: An Existential Phenomenological Inquiry Concerning Man, Mind, and the Body. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisors: Paul Duguid and Kimiko Ryokai. University of California, Berkeley. 2011.

Patrick Riley. The Revolution Will Be Televised: Identifying, Organizing, and Presenting Correlations Between Social Media and Broadcast Television. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Yale Braunstein. University of California, Berkeley. 2012

Dan Perkel. Making Art, Creating Infrastructure: deviantART and the Production of the Web. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Nancy Van House. University of California, Berkeley. 2011.
David Bernard Thaw. Characterizing, Classifying, and Understanding Information Security Laws and Regulations: Considerations for Policymakers and Organizations Protecting Sensitive Information Assets. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Deirdre Mulligan. University of California, Berkeley. 2011.