Culture, design, and technology, particularly digital technologies, visualization, and immersive systems; social informatics; ethnographic and phenomenological approaches to information and communication systems analysis; earth observation and geomedia; hacking, open design, and the free culture movement; space industrialization in the Developing World.

PhD, Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2007)

MS, Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2004)

BS, Physics (minor in computer science), University of Oregon (1994)

Lecturer in Digital Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University College London (2009 - present)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Syracuse University (2007 - 2009)

Sponsored Research Technical Staff, Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999 - 2000)

Assistant Technical Staff, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995 - 1999)

Technical Aide, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University (1994 - 1995)

Avionics Technician, Edwards Air Force Base, USAF (1987-1991)

[ANTHGM01] Core Course in Digital Anthropology (University College London)

[CAS-100] iPod Politics: Technological Design & Everyday Life (Syracuse University)

[DTC-475] Digital Diversity (Washington State University, Vancouver)

[DTC-375] Language, Text & Technology (Washington State University, Vancouver)

[ITEC/IHSS-1970] Design, History & Society (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

[ITEC/IHSS-1210] Information in History & Society (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

[ITEC/IHSS-1210] Politics and Economics of Information Technology (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

DeNicola, L. 2010 (in progress) The Clickwheel Cargo Cult: Reading the iPod as Cultural Artifact. Routledge.

DeNicola, L. 2009 (under contract) "Swadeshi Satellites: India's Earth Observation Program as 'New Media'" in Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures, eds. Lisa Parks and Jim Schwoch. Rutgers University Press.

DeNicola,L. 2006. "The Bundling of Geospatial Information with Everyday Experience" in Monahan, T. (ed.) Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life (Routledge).

DeNicola, L. 2007. "Techniques of the Environmental Observer: India's Earth Remote Sensing Program in the Age of Global Information" Doctoral dissertation, Science & Technology Studies Dept., RPI (Troy, NY).

DeNicola, L. 2004. "Himmelsmaschine: Weimar Culture, the Projection Planetarium, and the Politics of Simulation" MS thesis, Science & Technology Studies Dept., RPI (Troy, NY).

"Credibility and the Use of Geospatial Media in Activism and Advocacy" Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Columbus, OH (Oct 24-29, 2008).

Review of A Disciplinary Blueprint for the Assessment of Information Literacy, Dorothy A. Warner (Libraries Unlimited, 2008), Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (30 Dec 2008).

Entry on "Science & Technology Studies" in The Encyclopedia of Environment & Society, ed. Paul Robbins (Sage Publications, 2007).

Entries on "GPS," "cellphones," and "airborne surveillance and intelligence," Encyclopedia of Privacy (Greenwood Press, 2006).

Review of Image Ethics in the Digital Age, eds Larry Gross, et al. (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (2006).

Houck, J. C., DeNicola, L. A. 2000. "ISIS: An Interactive Spectral Interpretation System for High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy" in Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conf. Ser. 216, Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems IX, ed. N. Manset, V. Veillet, and D. Crabtree (San Francisco: ASP), 591.

Boone, B. G., DeNicola, L., and Grabow, B. 1994. "Reconstruction of Surface Topography Using Fourier Phase of Structured Light" in Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, vol 2348, Imaging and Illumination for Metrology and Inspection, ed. Donald J. Svetkoff (Boston: SPIE Photonics East), pp. 196-210.

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