Speaker
Ashwin Jacob Mathew is a Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Before returning to academia, he spent a decade in the software industry in India, working in senior technical roles in companies like Aztec Software and Adobe. At Berkeley, he blends his technical background with theory and methods drawn from the social sciences to investigate the infrastructure of the Internet.
Time and Date
Friday, 17 July, 2009; 5.30-7.00 pm
Venue
Centre for Internet and Society, No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers (Wockhardt Hospital building), 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore – 560052
If we view the Internet as built environment, rather than an abstract “cloud”, then it becomes critical to consider what the politics of this artifact might be, to understand the politics of the technical systems that enable these flows. More