Hamsini Sridharan
Biographic Data
| ID | 219434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamsini Sridharan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamsini |
| FAMILY NAME | Sridharan |
| SIGNATURE | SRIDHARAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Civil rights audits as counterpublic strategy: Articulating the responsibility and failure to care for marginalized communities in platform governance
This study examines civil society engagement with the 2016–2020 Airbnb and Facebook civil rights audits as counterpublic strategies to address discriminatory harms on platforms. Drawing on critical theories of (counter)publics, care work, and civil rights, we explore (1) civil society organizations’ negotiations with various stakeholders in the audits, (2) the perceived utility of the audits as a platform governance mechanism, and (3) motivations…
Precog visions: Predicting the future with the Minority Report sociotechnical imaginary
The 2002 film Minority Report regularly appears in tech press articles asking whether it ‘predicted the future’. When such publications invoke the film as having ‘predicted the future’ or ‘come true’, what social and political claims are being made? How has Minority Report become a discursive tool for imagining, constructing, and criticizing sociotechnical worlds? In this paper, we evaluate the worldbuilding process and real-world trajectories of…
Human-Animal Relations
In studying the lives and livelihoods of human beings, the social sciences and humanities often find their lines of inquiry tugged in the direction of other, nonhuman beings. When Claude Lévi-Strauss (1963) suggested that “thinking with” animals was relevant and fruitful to the study of humankind, scholars began to follow these leads with academic rigor, enthusiasm, and creativity. Propelled into the new millennium by the passion of the environme…
Human-Animal Relations
In studying the lives and livelihoods of human beings, the social sciences and humanities often find their lines of inquiry tugged in the direction of other, nonhuman beings. When Claude Lévi-Strauss (1963) suggested that “thinking with” animals was relevant and fruitful to the study of humankind, scholars began to follow these leads with academic rigor, enthusiasm, and creativity. Propelled into the new millennium by the passion of the environme…
Human-Animal Relations
In studying the lives and livelihoods of human beings, the social sciences and humanities often find their lines of inquiry tugged in the direction of other, nonhuman beings. When Claude Lévi-Strauss (1963) suggested that “thinking with” animals was relevant and fruitful to the study of humankind, scholars began to follow these leads with academic rigor, enthusiasm, and creativity. Propelled into the new millennium by the passion of the environme…
Civil rights audits as counterpublic strategy: Articulating the responsibility and failure to care for marginalized communities in platform governance
This study examines civil society engagement with the 2016–2020 Airbnb and Facebook civil rights audits as counterpublic strategies to address discriminatory harms on platforms. Drawing on critical theories of (counter)publics, care work, and civil rights, we explore (1) civil society organizations’ negotiations with various stakeholders in the audits, (2) the perceived utility of the audits as a platform governance mechanism, and (3) motivations…
Precog visions: Predicting the future with the Minority Report sociotechnical imaginary
The 2002 film Minority Report regularly appears in tech press articles asking whether it ‘predicted the future’. When such publications invoke the film as having ‘predicted the future’ or ‘come true’, what social and political claims are being made? How has Minority Report become a discursive tool for imagining, constructing, and criticizing sociotechnical worlds? In this paper, we evaluate the worldbuilding process and real-world trajectories of…
Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Accounting (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropocene (1 works)