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Silvia Lindtner

Teaches at IIT Institute of Design

Silvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information, with an affiliated appointment in the Center for Chinese Studies and the Science and Technology Studies (STS) program. She is a co-founder of the Shanghai-based research hub Hacked Matter, focused on interdisciplinary scholarship of cultures of technology production in China. 

Her research investigates the role digital technologies play in global processes of innovation, work and labor, as sites of expressions of selfhood and collectivity, and in relation to political, social and economic processes of urban redesign. She explores these themes through a contemporary research project; DIY (do it yourself) maker and hacker culture, with a particular focus on its intersections with manufacturing and creative industry development in China.  

Her work is published across the fields of digital media and information studies, cultural anthropology, China studies, science and technology studies, and human-computer interaction. Lindtner is the recipient of a grant by the National Science Foundation, supporting her research on maker and hacker cultures in China and the United States. In additional, her work has been supported by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, two Intel Research grants, a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, and a Chinese Government Scholarship.

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