Nimmi
Rangaswamy
nimmir@microsoft.com
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I am an Associate Researcher in the
Technology for Emerging Markets Group
at
Microsoft Research India in
Bangalore. I'm a social scientist, with a background in Social
Anthropology
I received my M.Phil from
the Delhi School of Economics and PhD from the University of Mumbai. My
doctoral thesis analyzed a variety of print propaganda in Tamil politics
as instantiation
of broader regional political culture. Before joining MSR India, in
2005, I lectured for several years at colleges in Delhi
and Mumbai and have been part of the editorial team for the journal
Economic and Political Weekly.
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Publications
Recent
Papers
Sambasivan N, Rangaswamy N, Toyama K, Nardi B, Forthcoming,
Encountering Development Ethnographically, ACM
Interactions, November/December 2009
Rangaswamy N, Nair S (2009)
The Mobile Phone Store Ecology in a Mumbai Slum Community: Hybrid Networks for
Enterprise,
AiOR09Mobile Phones and the Developing World Pre-Conference Workshop, Milwaukee,
October 2009
Sambasivan N, Rangaswamy N, Cutrell E, Nardi B (2009)
Ubicomp4D:
Infrastructure and Interaction for International Development—the Case of Urban
Indian Slums, 11th
International conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Orlando, September 2009
Rangaswamy,
N (2009) The non-formal business of cyber cafes: A case-study from India, Journal
of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 7,
(2/3)
Rangaswamy,
N (2009) Keywords
in Communication: Mesh-economy and business channels in an Indian urban
slum, ICA 2009, pre-conference on
India and Communication
Studies, May 21 2009, Chicago
Rangaswamy,
N (2009) ICT
for Mesh-economy: Case study of an urban slum, IFIP 2009, May 26-28,
Dubai
Rangaswamy,
N (2009) Personalizing the shared mobile phone, panel paper on Mobile Money: Design for
Inclusion, Internationalization, Design
and Global development, HCII 2009, 19-24 July San
Diego
Rangaswamy,
N. Toyama, K (2009) Computing for Sustainable
Socio-Economic Development, Panel on Internationalization, Design
and Global development, HCII 2009, 19-24 July San
Diego
Rangaswamy, N
(2008) Telecentres and Cyber cafes: The case for ICTs in small business, Asian
Journal of Communication, 18(4) pp 365-378
Rangaswamy,
N (2008) The rise of ICT for commerce in small product offerings: case studies
from India, ACIS, Christchurch, December
2008
Rangaswamy,
N (2008) My TV is the family oven/toaster/grill: Personalizing TV for the Indian
audience, UXTV, San
Francisco
Rangaswamy,
N (2008) There is no entertainment without TV: Changing TV environments in
India, EUROITV
2008, Salzburg,
Rangaswamy,
N (2008) Telecentres and Cyber cafes: A case for ICT in small business", 58th Annual International Conference of the International
Communication Association, Montreal
