migrants — Updates — Tricia Wang

New Article - Dumplings for Sale: What migrant work is really like

I wrote a piece for That's Shanghai in 2012 about my fieldwork with migrant workers in Beijing.

tricia wangAugust 1, 2012bytes of china, china, chinese, migrant labor, migrant workers, migrants, street vendors

"Technology for Migrant Workers" Interview in Agenda Magazine

I had a lovely time chatting with Abby McBride from Agenda Magazine.

tricia wangAugust 26, 2011agenda magazine, beijing, china, digital urbanism, interview, media, migrants, non-elite, press, smartphone, technology, tricia wang

An Xiao Mina's Article About my Research on Chinese Migrants living in Internet Cafes (Huffington Post)

Design strategist, new media artist, and digital community builder Anxiao Mina interviewed me for her latest article in Huffington Post on internet cafes in China, The 21st Century Saloon: A Peek Inside China's Wangba, or Internet Cafes.

My new blog about my research in China: Bytes of China!

I’ve just moved to China to fieldwork on how non-elite users, youth, and migrants are using cellphones and the internet. I’ve decided to keep a separate blog of all my ethnographic observations so that it doesn’t get mixed in with my general observations about culture and technology on Cultural Bytes.

tricia wangMay 24, 2011blog, china, ethnography, migrants, social networking sites, sociology, technology, tricia wang, youth

Fun interview about Chinese migrants and internet cafes with Benjamen Walker's radio show, Too Much Information

I love the way my interview turned out on Benjamen Walker's Too Much Information. We met in Austin, Texas at SXSW and he ended up super fun to work with.

Slides/Notes for my SXSW talk on my research in China & some reflections about SXSW

En route to China, I stopped in Austin to give a talk at my first time at SXSW Interactive. What did I overhear the most at SXSW?

Moving to China to do research! Will be blogging my year on BytesofChina.com!

Good day world! it’s finally happening! I’m moving to China to do my research! wooohoo!

So I’m moving to China to do my research, and then coming back to write something that I hope to buddha doesn’t kill my soul to write creative non-fiction. (here’s some more details about my research). I have a post on my personal blog about all the things and people that I will miss so dearly.

tricia wangMarch 20, 2011bytes of china, china, ethnographic, ethnography, fieldwork, fulbright, migrants, technology

Spoke at “Creating Community Environments” at ITP, NYU

I was a guest speaker at the wonderful Kristen Taylor’s seminar, Creating Community Environments, at New York University’s ITP program.