Hi Abhigyan,
I noted that your themes list is missing topics on low-literacy as it relates to technology... I suggest you add this to your list, as it is in the title of your proposal.
The following paper reports research performed in a developed country. One aspect reports on behaviours people with low-literacy presented during their interactions with a website.
Title: Behaviour characteristics: low and high literacy users information seeking on social service websites
<http://64.238.147.56/citation.cfm?id=1577782.1577785&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=61283440&CFTOKEN=99672275>
Since then the author of this paper has reported on more aspects of this research.
Cheers,
Gloria
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On 19/10/2011, at 7:15 AM, abhigyan singh wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am writing my doctoral studies proposal on the theme of interdisciplinary
> research on crowd-sourcing in low-literacy and low-technology contexts in
> emerging markets (India & Sub-Saharan Africa).
>
> I request for pointers to research papers, links, case studies etc which
> discuss aspects related to the subject. Some themes: Community Informatics &
> Crowd-sourcing, Social Design & Actor Network Theory, Cultural dimensions &
> design of ICT-Interfaces, research incorporating both 'real-world' social
> network and 'virtual' social network, Ethics and Economics of
> Crowd-sourcing, Social Capital & ICTD.
>
> Your directions will be very helpful. If you are aware of any research
> lab/university conducting similar research then please share the
> information.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best Regards,
> Abhigyan Singh
>
> web: http://abhigyan.info/ <http://nl.linkedin.com/in/agsingh>
>
>
> Design Researcher,
>
> Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab,
>
> Delft University of Technology (TU Delft),
>
> HB11.320, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft,
>
> The Netherlands
>
> Web: http://dmirlab.tudelft.nl/
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