Michaelanne Thomas

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information where I run the Anthropology and Technology Lab (ATL). As a sociocultural anthropologist I use ethnographic methods to study how marginalized communities collaboratively design, access, and participate with information communication technologies (ICTs) in politically and resource-constrained contexts. I am specifically interested in the ways people rely on social relationships to confront issues of power, resistance, and agency informed by the fields of Anthropology, CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), ICTD (Information Communication Technologies & Development), and Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS).