Scholar
Lilly Irani
Google Scholar ID: FGWYdYUAAAAJ
Associate Professor of Communication, Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,707
H-index
29
i10-index
47
Publications
20
Co-authors
10
list available
Contact
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Book 'Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India' (Princeton University Press, 2019) won the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize
- Co-authored 'Redacted', published by Taller California, offering critical readings of redacted government documents
- Member of the editorial collective of 'Public Culture'
- Serves on editorial advisory boards of 'Design and Culture', 'New Technology, Work, and Employment', and 'Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience'
- Research funded by Kauffman Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship, Open Society Foundation, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and NSF Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems Program
Background
- Research focuses on the cultural politics of high-tech work practices, particularly how 'innovation' cultures are produced.
- Trained as an ethnographer of work, analyzing interactional, organizational, and cultural dynamics mediated by technology.
- Combines background in computer science and design to develop novel technical and organizational systems for studied contexts.
- Specializes in the cultural politics of high-tech work in global digitally-mediated economies, especially in the U.S. and India.
- Co-develops software tools like Turkopticon and Dynamo to build worker power and create alternatives to dominant platforms.
- Faculty appointments across Communication, Science Studies, Design Lab, Institute for Practical Ethics, and Critical Gender Studies at UC San Diego.
