On February 18, 2021, project Co-PI Marisa Duarte spoke speak on a panel along with Shannon Mattern and Rahul Mukherjee for Roundtable: The New Ethereality (https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/new-ethereality/) on the topic of wireless infrastructures—from TVWS technologies to 5G investments–and social imagination in diverse contexts. The event was hosted by the UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center.
Ph.D. student Beatriz Palacios Abad (Georgia Tech), together with PuebloConnect PIs Belding, Vigil-Hayes and Zegura, had her paper “Measuring and Improving Underserved Community Access” accepted for presentation at the NSF WOMBIR’21 workshop. The goals of the workshop were to identify critical research questions that require network measurement, and to identify Read more…
Our team recently had a paper titled “Tribal Mobility and COVID-19: An Urban-Rural Analysis in New Mexico” accepted into ACM HotMobile’21. Through a partnership with Skyhook, which provided us with extensive cellular device mobility data, we examined COVID-19 case growth in proximity to significant tribal presence by providing a novel Read more…
PuebloConnect PIs Ellen Zegura and Elizabeth Belding gave a presentation on project research for select members of the FCC. Topics included challenges and potential solutions for assessing broadband coverage across the US.
Recently, our team has been working with the IT directors and network administrators for four sovereign Native nations and one rural county in northern New Mexico to try to extend middle-mile infrastructure across and through political jurisdictions. One challenge that our team has encountered pertains to the difficulty in locating Read more…
Our work on Twitter during the 2018 midterm election and how social media campaigns like #NativeVote influenced the representation of Native people was published in the Indian Country Today.
Our publication titled Complex, Contemporary, and Unconventional: Characterizing the Tweets of the #NativeVote Movement and Native American Candidates through the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections has received the CSCW 2019 Diversity and Inclusion Award. This paper is authored by Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst and Marisa Elena Duarte, and was published Read more…
Our work on PuebloConnect has been featured in the Technology Trends section July/August 2019 Social Work Today.
Our work was featured in an article titled“Critical Connections: Computer science professor Elizabeth Belding works to advance social causes by bringing WiFi-powered web access to underserved communities.” UCSB Convergence Magazine, Spring 2019, pages 14-16
Northern Arizona University has published a great article about our work. Please read the article Bridging the ‘digital divide’: NAU researcher using innovative technology, social science to improve lives in underserved communities.