Patricia Garcia

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Expanding a Temporal Vocabulary Towards Designing for “Undiscoverable Learning”

Narratives of learning often implicitly rely on linear temporalities, such as understanding time through a clock or positioning learning as a trajectory. When designing technology-rich learning environ- ments, we need attention to the multiple times and temporalities that exist. In this paper, we expand on a temporal…

CHI '252nd AuthorCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +1

What's in a Place? On Platformization of Traditional Agricultural Marketplaces

In this paper, we pay ethnographic attention to the failed attempts at platformization of agricultural trade in one of Asia's largest onion markets, located in rural western Maharashtra. We focus on e-NAM, or the electronic National Agricultural Market, a state-sponsored digital trading platform intended to create a t…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 4e: Navigating AI Ethical Challenges

Intermediation: Algorithmic Prioritization in Practice in Homeless Services

Homelessness is a significant and growing crisis in the United States. In an effort to more efficiently and fairly distribute limited housing resources, jurisdictions across the US have adopted algorithmic prioritization systems to help select which unhoused people should receive resources. Given the impact of algorit…

CHI '232nd AuthorGig Economy Platforms +2

Old Logics, New Technologies: Producing a Managed Workforce on On-Demand Service Platforms

We examine how two prominent food delivery platforms in India, Swiggy and Zomato, produce a managed digital workforce using a combination of algorithmic control and traditional labor management strategies. Our findings draw from interviews conducted with 13 food delivery workers and a critical discourse analysis of ne…

CSCW '21CorrespondingSupport and Inclusion

Sensemaking and Coping After Pregnancy Loss: The Seeking and Disruption of Emotional Validation Online

Emotional validation describes when one believes that their activities, emotions, beliefs, or other reactions are relevant and meaningful given the circumstance. When people experience distressing, stigmatizing life events, their state of emotional validation and thus their perceived sense of normalcy is often disrupt…

CSCW '201st AuthorNo: Critical Refusal as Feminist Data Practice

No: Critical Refusal as Feminist Data Practice

Critical refusal is a generative concept for challenging harmful data practices, while simultaneously negotiating and developing alternative actions. The panelists will discuss two projects, Data Feminism and The Feminist Data Manifest-No, to illustrate how critical refusal can be used as a tool for generating alterna…

CSCW '191st AuthorMethods and reflections

Expanding Our Reflexive Toolbox: Collaborative Possibilities for Examining Socio-Technical Systems Using Duoethnography

Addressing harm and ethical dilemmas that arise from the design of socio-technical systems requires novel methodologies that foster critical investigations of normative values, perspectives, and experiences. In this paper, we propose duoethnography as a feminist methodological tool for collaboratively researching inte…

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