Melissa Villa-Nicholas
Biographic Data
| ID | 275187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Villa-Nicholas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Villa-Nicholas |
| SIGNATURE | VILLA-NICHOLAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5530-9377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digitizing the “Ideal” Latina Information Worker
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latina information ser…
Strategic Visibilities
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low-wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latinas information se…
Data body milieu
We are increasingly seeing the Latinx immigrant body in US-Mexico borderlands engaged as the surface for which information technology is mobilized. Recent investment in the collection of biodata on
Designing the “good citizen” through Latina identity in Uscis’s virtual assistant “Emma”
Virtual assistants are increasingly integrated as “user-friendly” interfaces for e-government services. This research investigates the case study of the virtual assistant, “Emma,” that is integrated into the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. We conduct an interface analysis of Emma, along with the USCIS website, and related promotional materials, to explore the cultural affordances of Latina identity as a strateg…
Latinx Digital Memory
Recently, there has been an increase in cultural Latinx social media platforms, leading to a renaissance of digital visual cultural memory work around Latinidad. This work focuses on how Latinx digital memory participates in an ongoing identity formation in real time, both in resistance to and collusion with American cultural values. By looking at popular visual Latinx social media accounts, this article explores how Latinx identity is constructe…
Terror by telephone
By 1967, telephone harassment complaints in the United States had hit an all-time high. Telephone companies, government officials, police, and media scrambled to make sense of and harness the surge in obscene calls. Such a phenomenon drew on the publics’ fears of an unknown and anonymous ‘pervert,’ which now had access to their private sphere through the technology of telephone calls. Previous research which had focused on obscenity laws and cens…
Ruptures in Telecommunications
After the civil rights movements of the 1960s and subsequent affirmative action legislation, the 1970s saw an influx of Latina/os into the telecommunications sector. Latina/o information workers have been employed in telecommunications for decades, experiencing the rapid transformation of information technologies and sweeping changes in the telecommunications industry amid the liberalization of the United States economy. This study focuses on int…
Latina/o librarian technological engagements
Latinx Digital Memory
Recently, there has been an increase in cultural Latinx social media platforms, leading to a renaissance of digital visual cultural memory work around Latinidad. This work focuses on how Latinx digital memory participates in an ongoing identity formation in real time, both in resistance to and collusion with American cultural values. By looking at popular visual Latinx social media accounts, this article explores how Latinx identity is constructe…
Latina/o librarian technological engagements
Ruptures in Telecommunications
After the civil rights movements of the 1960s and subsequent affirmative action legislation, the 1970s saw an influx of Latina/os into the telecommunications sector. Latina/o information workers have been employed in telecommunications for decades, experiencing the rapid transformation of information technologies and sweeping changes in the telecommunications industry amid the liberalization of the United States economy. This study focuses on int…
Terror by telephone
By 1967, telephone harassment complaints in the United States had hit an all-time high. Telephone companies, government officials, police, and media scrambled to make sense of and harness the surge in obscene calls. Such a phenomenon drew on the publics’ fears of an unknown and anonymous ‘pervert,’ which now had access to their private sphere through the technology of telephone calls. Previous research which had focused on obscenity laws and cens…
Designing the “good citizen” through Latina identity in Uscis’s virtual assistant “Emma”
Virtual assistants are increasingly integrated as “user-friendly” interfaces for e-government services. This research investigates the case study of the virtual assistant, “Emma,” that is integrated into the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. We conduct an interface analysis of Emma, along with the USCIS website, and related promotional materials, to explore the cultural affordances of Latina identity as a strateg…
Latinx Digital Memory
Recently, there has been an increase in cultural Latinx social media platforms, leading to a renaissance of digital visual cultural memory work around Latinidad. This work focuses on how Latinx digital memory participates in an ongoing identity formation in real time, both in resistance to and collusion with American cultural values. By looking at popular visual Latinx social media accounts, this article explores how Latinx identity is constructe…
Data body milieu
We are increasingly seeing the Latinx immigrant body in US-Mexico borderlands engaged as the surface for which information technology is mobilized. Recent investment in the collection of biodata on
Strategic Visibilities
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low-wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latinas information se…
Digitizing the “Ideal” Latina Information Worker
Recent examples of virtual assistant technologies designed as Latina information service workers are noteworthy objects of study for their potential to bridge analyses of Latinas’ labor history and information technology. Latinas in the United States have traditionally worked in blue-collar information technology sectors characterized by repetitive labor and low wages, such as electronics manufacturing and customer service. Latina information ser…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works)