HIGHLIGHTS

Sun, Y., Ma, X., Lindtner, S., and He, L. 2023. Data Work of Frontline Care Workers: Practices, Problems, and Opportunities in the Context of Data-Driven Long-term Care. In the Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 7, Issue CSCW2 (Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing), Article No. 42. Impact Recognition Award.

Anubha Singh, Patricia Garcia, Silvia Lindtner. 2023. Old Logics, New Technologies: Producing a Managed Workforce on On-Demand Service Platforms, In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’21, Article No. 160, 1-15.

Yuchen Chen, Yuling Sun, Silvia Lindtner. 2023. Maintainers of Stability: The Labor of China’s Data-Driven Governance and Dynamic Zero-COVID, In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’23, Article No. 159, 1-16.

Dan Wang and Silvia Lindtner. 2022. Locked Down in Shanghai: Two residents describe a city that comes apart at the seams. New York Magazine.

Lin, Cindy and Silvia Lindtner. 2021. Techniques of Use: Confronting Value Systems of Productivity, Progress, and Usefulness in Computing and Design. CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems May 2021 Article No.: 595 Pages 1–16. [pdf]

Avle, S., Hardy, J., Lin, C., Lindtner, S. 2020. Scaling Techno-Optimistic Visions. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS),, Vol. 6, 237-254. [pdf]

Precarity Lab (Aristarkhova, I., Chaar-Lopez, I., Fisher, A., Hu, T., Lin, C., Lindtner, S., Kamil, M., Nakamura, L.). 2019. Digital Precarity Manifesto. Social Text STX 37.4 (141). [pdf]

Lin, C., Lindtner, S., Wuschitz, S, 2019. Hacking Difference in Indonesia: The Ambivalences of Designing for Alternative Futures." DIS’19: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 1571-1582. [pdf] Recipient of Diversity & Inclusion Award.

HEAVILY Peer-reviewed papers in CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Sun, Y., Ma, X., Lindtner, S., and He, L. 2023. Care Workers’ Wellbeing in Data-driven Healthcare Workplace: Identity, Agency, and Social Justice. In the Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 7, Issue CSCW2 (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), Article No. 329. Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion.

Chen, Y., Sun, Y., and Lindtner, S. 2023. Maintainers of Stability: The Labor of China‘s Data-driven Governance and Dynamic Zero-Covid. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’23, Article No. 159, 1-16. [pdf]

Singh, A., Garcia, P., and Lindtner, S. 2023. Old Logics, New Technologies: Producing a Managed Workforce on On-Demand Service Platforms. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’21, Article No. 160, 1-15. [pdf]

Huber, L., Pierce, C. and Lindtner, S. 2022. An Approximation of Freedom: On-demand Therapy and the Feminization of Labor. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, CSCW 2022, Vol. 6, Issue CSCW 2 (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), Article No. 275. [pdf]

Avle, S., Hui, J., Lindtner, S., Dillahunt, T. 2019. Additional Labors of the Entrepreneurial Self. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 3, Issue CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), Article No. 208. [pdf]

Lindtner, S., Bardzell, S., Bardzell, J. 2018. Design and Intervention in the Age of “No Alternative,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW, Vol. 2, Article No. 109, November, 2018. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. and Avle, S. T 2017. Tinkering with Governance: Technopolitcs and the Economization of Citizenship, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW, Vol 1, Article 20, November, 2017. [pdf]

Hardy, J. and Lindtner, S. 2017. Constructing a Desiring User: Discourse, Rurality, and Design in Location-based Social Networks. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, CSCW 2017, pp. 13-24. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award. [pdf]

Avle, S., Lindtner, S., Williams, K. 2017. How Methods Make Designers. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'17, pp. 472-483. [pdf]

Kaziunas, E., Ackerman, M., Lindtner, S., Lee, J. 2017. Caring Through Data: Attending to the Social and Emotional Experiences of Health Dataification. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017, pp. 2260-2272. [pdf]

Ammari, T., Schoenebeck, S., Lindtner, S. 2017. The Crafting of DIY Fatherhood. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp. 1109-1122. [pdf]

Lindtner, S., Bardzell, S., Bardzell, J. 2016. Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'16, pp. 1390 - 1402. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award. [pdf]

Avle, S. and Lindtner, S. 2016. Design(ing) Here and There: Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Process. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors of Computing Systems, CHI'16, pp. 2233- 2245. [pdf]

Lin, C. and Lindtner, S. 2016. Legitimacy, Boundary Objects & Participation in Transnational DIY Biology. Proceedings of the ACM Participatory Design Conference (PDC’16), Aarhus, Denmark, August, 2016, pp.171-179. [pdf]

Lindtner, S., Greenspan, A., Li, D. 2015. Designed in Shenzhen: Shanzhai manufacturing and Maker Entrepreneurs. Proceedings of the 5th Decennial ACM SIGCHI Aarhus Conference on “Critical Alternatives,” Aarhus, Denmark, Aug 17-21, 2015, Aarhus Series on Human Centered Computing, [S.l.], v.1, n.1, Oct. 2015, pp.12 - 25. [pdf]

Sun, Y., Lindtner, S., Ding, X., Lu, T., Gu, N. 2015. Reliving the Past and Making a Harmonious Society Today: A study of elderly electronic hackers in China. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 44-55. Best Paper Award. [pdf]

Lindtner, S., Hertz, G., and Dourish, P. 2014. Emerging Sites of HCI Innovation: Hackerspaces, Hardware Start-ups & Incubators, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI'14 (Toronto, Canada), pp.439-448. Recipient Best Paper Award [pdf]

Sun, Y., Ding, X., Lindtner, S., Lu, T., Gu, N. 2014. Being senior and ICT: a study of seniors using ICT in China. Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI 2014, Toronto, Canada, pp. 3933-3942. [pdf]

Liu, T, Ding, X., Lindtner, S., Lu, T., Gu, N. 2013. The Collective Infrastructural Work of Electricity: Exploring Feedback in a Prepay University Dorm in China. The ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp’13), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 295-304.

Lindtner, S., Anderson, K., Dourish, P. 2012. Cultural Appropriation: Information Technologies as Sites of Transnational Imagination. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, (Seattle, WA), pp.77-86. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. and Szablewicz, M. 2010. In between Wang ba and Elite Entertainment: China’s Many Internets. Chinese Internet Research Conference, Beijing, 2010. Best Student Paper Award. [pdf]

Lindtner, S., Mainwaring, S., Dourish, P., Wang, Y. 2009. Situating Productive Play: Online Gaming Practices and Guanxi in China. Proc. IFIP Conf. Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT 2009 (Stockholm, Sweden), Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 5736, pp. 328-341. [pdf]

Lindtner, S., Nardi, B., Wang, Y., Mainwaring, S., Jing, H., Liang, W. 2008. A Hybrid Cultural Ecology: World of Warcraft in China. In Proc. of CSCW, November 2008, San Diego, California, USA .[pdf]

Lindtner, S. and Nardi, B. 2008. Venice, California and World of Warcraft: Persistence and Ephemerality in Playful Spaces. In Proc. of the Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences, 151pp. [pdf]

Lin, J., Mamykina, L., Lindtner, S., Delajoux, G., Strubs, H. 2006. Fish’n’Steps: encouraging physical activity with an Interactive Computer Game, in Proc. of Ubicomp, 2006, Irvine, CA. [pdf]

JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Avle, S., Hardy, J., Lin, C., Lindtner, S. 2020. Scaling Techno-Optimistic Visions. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS),, Vol. 6, 237-254. [pdf]

Precarity Lab (Aristarkhova, I., Chaar-Lopez, I., Fisher, A., Hu, T., Lin, C., Lindtner, S. ,Kamil, M., Nakamura, L.). 2019. Digital Precarity Manifesto. Social Text STX 37.4 (141). [pdf]

Bardzell, J., Bardzell, S., Lindtner, S. 2019. A Few Things about Innovation. Bauhaus Futures, MIT Press, 2019 (eds: Molly Steenson, Laura Forlano, Mike Ananny).

Avle, S., Li, D., Lindtner, S., 2018. Responsible IoT after Techno-Solutionism. ThingsCon, Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA, 2018.

Lindtner, S. 2018. What are you reading? Silvia Lindtner. In ACM Interactions Magazine, XXV.2 March-April 2018, page 10.

Lindtner, S. 2017. Laboratory of the Precarious: The Seductive Draw of Entrepreneurial Living. Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 45, Nr. 3&4, pp. 287-305. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. and Lin, C. 2017. Making and its Promises. Journal of CoDesign, Issue 2, Special issue: Participatory Design in an Era of Participation (Rachel Charlotte Smith, Claus Bossen and Anne Marie Kanstrup, eds), pp. 70-82. [pdf]

Kaziunas, E., Lindtner, S., Ackerman, M., Lee, J. 2017. Lived Data: Tinkering with Bodies, Code, and Care Work. In Special Issue of the HCI Journal "The Examined Life: Personal Use of Personal Data." [pdf]

Greenspan, A., Lindtner, S., and Li, D. 2016. Silicon Markets: Smart Hardware from the Streets. In: Vint Cerf (ed.) The Good Life in Asia's Digital 21st Century, Digital Asia Hub (CC), pp. 106-109. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. 2015. Hacking with Chinese Characteristics: The Promises of the Maker Movement against China's Manufacturing Culture. Science, Technology & Human Values (Sage), Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 854-879. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. 2014. Hackerspaces and Internet of Things in China: How Makers are reinventing Industrial Production, Innovation & the Self. Journal of China Information, Special Issue on "Political Contestation in Chinese Digital Spaces" (ed. Guobin Yang), Vol. 28, No. 2, 145-167. [pdf]

Williams, A., Lindtner, S., Anderson, K., Dourish, P. 2013. Multi-sited Design: An Analytical Lens for Transnational HCI. Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 29:1, 78-108. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. and Li, David, 2012. Created in China. The Makings of China's Hackerspace Community. In Interactions, XIX.6 November + December 2012, pp. 18. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. and Dourish, P. 2011. The Promise of Play: A New Approach towards Productive Play. Games and Culture Journal, 6 (5), 453 - 478. [pdf]

Lindtner, S., Chen, J., Hayes, G., Dourish, P. 2011. Towards a Frameworks of Publics: Re-encountering Media Sharing and its User. ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 18 (2), 23pp. [pdf]

Lindtner, S. and Szablewicz, M. 2011. China’s many Internets: Participation and Sites of Game Play Across a Changing Technology Landscape. Book Chapter in: Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalizing the online carnival, eds. Herold, D.K. and Marolt, P. London & New York: Routledge, 89pp. [pdf]

Special issues

Green, D., Fuchsberger, V., Taylor, N., Bjorn, P., Kirk, D., and Lindtner, S. 2019. Introduction to This Special Issue on Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing, Journal of Human Computer Interaction.

Hansson, K., Forlano, L., Choi, J., DiSalvo, C., Pargman, T., Bardzell, S., Lindtner, S., and Joshi, S. 2018. Provocation, Conflict, and Appropriation: The Role of the Designer in Making Publics. Design Issues Autumn 2018, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp.3-7.

Shklovski, I., Vertesi, J., Lindtner, S. 2013. Special Issue on Transnational HCI. Human-Computer Interaction, 29 (1), pp. 1-21. In collaboration with Lucy Suchman.

EXTENDED ABSTRacts

Green, D., Fuchsberger, V., Kirk, D., Taylor, N., Chatting, D., Meissner, J., Murer, M., Tscheligi, M., Lindtner, S., Bjorn, P., Reiter, A. 2017. Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing. Extended Abstracts of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI’17 (Denver, Colorado).

Soro, A., Brereton, M., Roe, P., Wyeth, P., Johnson,D., Hufana Ambe, A., Morrison, A., Bardzell, S., Leong, T., Ju, W., Lindtner, S., Rogers, Y., Burr, J. 2017. Designing the Social Internet of Things. Extended Abstracts of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI’17 (Denver, Colorado)

Bardzell, J., Bardzell, S., Irani, L., Lindtner, S., Williams, K., Zimmerman, J. 2016. Boundary Troubles: Here, There, Design, Make, Research. Extended Abstracts of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI’16 (San Jose, California), pp. 1051-1056.

Fuchsberger, V., Murer, M., Tscheligi, M., Lindtner, S., Bardzell, S., Bardzell, J., Reiter, A., and Bjorn, P. 2016. Fabrication & HCI: Hobbyist Making, Industrial Production, and Beyond. Extended Abstracts of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI’16 (San Jose, California), pp. 3550 – 3557.

Lindtner, S., Cohn, M., Leahu, L., Holmer, H., DiSalvo, C. 2015. Shifting Borderlands of Technoscience: Tracing Trajectories of Critical Practice. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Aarhus Conference “Critical Alternatives,” Aarhus, Denmark, 2015.

Ames, M., Bardzell, J., Bardzell, S., Lindtner, S., Mellis, D., Rosner, D. 2014. Making Cultures: Empowerment, Participation, and Democracy – or Not? Extended Abstracts of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI'14 (Toronto, Canada), pp. 1087-1092.

Vertesi, J., Lindtner, S., and Shklovski, I. 2011. Transnational HCI: humans,
computers, and interactions in transnational contexts. Extended abstracts of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 61-64.

Shklovski, I., Lindtner, S., Vertesi, J., and Dourish, P. 2010. Transnational Times: Locality, Globality and Mobility in Technology Design and Use. Extended Abstracts, Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing – Adjunct (Ubicomp 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010, pp. 515-518.