Publications

2021

Preeti Mudliar. Biographies of Biometric Devices: The POS Machine at Work in India’s PDS. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’2021) May 8 – 13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. [PDF]

2020

Preeti Mudliar. Whither Humane-Computer Interaction? Adult and Child Value Conflicts in the Biometric Fingerprinting for Food. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’2020) April 25-30, 2020, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA. [PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376564

Preeti Mudliar. Broken Data: Repairs in the Production of Biometric Bodies. In Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India. (Ed. Sandeep Mertia). Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. [PDF]

2018

Preeti Mudliar. Public WiFi is for Men and Mobile Internet is for Women: Interrogating Politics of Space and Gender around WiFi Hotspots. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’18) November 3-7, 2018, Jersey City, New York, New York. [PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3274395
Recording of an invited talk on this paper as part of Talks@ATREE is available here.

Preeti Mudliar. Breakdowns and Repairs in Aadhaar-linked Public Distribution Systems–Learnings from Rajasthan. Presented at the 2018 International Tech4Dev Conference, UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development: Voices of the Global South, Lausanne, Switzerland. 27-29 June.

Preeti Mudliar and Noopur Raval. “They are like personalized mini-Googles”: Seeking information on Facebook Groups. Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. [PDF]

2017

Preeti Mudliar. Broken Data. Paper presented at ‘Lives of Data’. Workshop organized by Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi, (January 5-7, 2017). Audio recordings of the presentations are available here.

2016

Preeti Mudliar. Rural India on the National Optic Fibre Network: What Happens Next? Policy Report on India’s NOFN project for The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy (December 21st, 2017) Available here.

2015

Preeti Mudliar & Joyojeet Pal. Watching from an Arm’s Length, The Foreign Hand in Tamil Cinema. [Journal Publication]. In ‘Communication, Culture & Critique’ (April, 2015) [PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12108

Preeti Mudliar & Nimmi Rangaswamy. Offline Strangers, Online Friends: Bridging Classroom Gender Segregation with WhatsApp. SIGCHI, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (CHI’2015) April 18-23, 2015, Seoul, Republic of South Korea. [PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702533

Preeti Mudliar & Jonathan Donner. Experiencing Interactive Voice Response (IVR) as a Participatory Medium, The case of CGNet Swara in India. [Journal Publication]. In ‘Mobile Media and Communication’, Sage Publications. [PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157915571591

Preeti Mudliar & Joyojeet Pal. ICTD in the Popular Press: Media Discourse around Aakash, the “World’s Cheapest Tablet”. [Invited Paper]. In ‘Information Technologies & International Development’, ICTD’13 Special Issue, vol 11, Issue 1, (March, 2015). [PDF]

2014

Stephania Castellani, Antonietta Grasso, Jutta Williamowski, David Martin, Rinku Gajera, & Preeti Mudliar. Supporting Sustainable Mobility with the Help of Work Organizations: Preliminary Requirements and Future Work. [Full Paper]. ACM India HCI 2014, 7 – 9 December, 2014, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. [PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2676702.2676712

Preeti Mudliar. The Indian Bride who became Vice-mayor of Rost. [Book Chapter]. In Culture, Development and Petroleum: Ethnography of the High North (Eds. Jan-Oddvar Sornes, Larry Browning, Jan Terje Henriksen) Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media.

2013

Preeti Mudliar & Joyojeet Pal. ICTD in the Popular Press: Media Discourse Around Aakash, the World’s Cheapest Tablet. [Full Paper, Plenary session]. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)’ 2013, December 7-9, 2013, Cape Town, South Africa.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2516604.2516629

Preeti Mudliar, Sharon Strover, Kenneth Flamm. Outside Looking In: Shaping access and use of Public Computing Centers. [Poster]. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)’ 2013, December 7-9, 2013, Cape Town, South Africa. [PDF]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2517899.2517939

Preeti Mudliar & Joyojeet Pal. Watching from an Arm’s Length: The Foreign Hand in Tamil Cinema. [Full Paper]. International Communication Association (ICA)’2013, Popular Culture Division. June 17-21, 2013, London, United Kingdom.

2012

Preeti Mudliar, Jonathan Donner, Bill Thies. Emergent Practices Around CGNet Swara: Voice Forum for Citizen Journalism in Rural India. [Journal Publication, Invited paper]. Information Technologies and International Development, Vol 9, Issue 2, ICTD’12 Special Issue, USC Annenberg Press. [PDF]

Preeti Mudliar, Jonathan Donner, Bill Thies. Emergent Practices Around CGNet Swara: Voice Forum for Citizen Journalism in Rural India. [Full Paper, Plenary session]. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)’ 2012, March 12-15, 2012, Atlanta, USA,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2160673.2160695