User:Lane DeNicola

Lane has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from RPI and prior to his graduate training worked for six years as a programmer and simulation designer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and finally at the Center for Space Research at MIT. His research interests include: culture, design, and technology, particularly digital technologies, visualization, and immersive systems; social informatics; ethnographic and phenomenological approaches to information and communication systems analysis; earth observation and geomedia; hacking, open design, and the free culture movement; space industrialization in the Developing World. His doctoral research entailed ethnographic work on the training of satellite image interpreters in India, and he is currently researching the use of satellite imagery and other "geomedia" by NGOs and advocacy groups. He is also completing a book under the title "Reading the Ipod as a Cultural Artifact," (Routledge, 2010).