Michaelanne Thomas, PhD is an invited speaker on Human-Computer Interaction, information communication technologies, and social media for social change. She’s an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.
Would you like to book Dr. Thomas for your group’s keynote, plenary, panel, or speaking engagement? Email Dr. Thomas at mmtd@umich.edu
2025
Human Connections: The Relational Dynamics of Havana’s Digital Infrastructure
Michaelanne Thomas
Workshop position paper for Connective (t)Issues: Stories of Digitality, Infrastructures, and Resistance Workshop. Data & Society.
2024
Community as Connectivity: The relationality of digital ecosystems in contexts of precarity
Michaelanne Thomas
Invited speaker for the University of Washington, Change Seminar
Social Webs and Digital Threads: How relational dependencies enable Cuban internet ecosystems
Michaelanne Thomas
Invited speaker for University of Virginia, Media Studies and Latin American Studies
Embracing Interdependence to Address Climate Migration
Michaelanne Thomas
Workshop position paper for HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis Workshop. CSCW 2024.
2023
Ethical Tensions and Methodological Concerns: Ethnography Online and Off
Michaelanne Thomas
Invited speaker for Mixed Realities: Ethnographic Approaches to the Virtual at Yale University
Solo parenting, academic research, and inclusive practices for CHI
Michaelanne Thomas
Invited panelist for the Families Panel at CHI 2023
Reimagining Ethnography in HCI: A relational approach
Michaelanne Thomas
Paper presentation for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
Soy Mitad Cubana pero no de la sangre: Is there room for personal histories in CSCW?
Michaelanne Thomas
Workshop position paper for Historicism Workshop. CSCW.
Piecing Together Cuban Digital Communities: Studying Online Platforms, Private Spaces, and “Offline” Internets
Michaelanne Thomas
Workshop position paper for Mixed Realities: Ethnographic Approaches to the Virtual Conference, Yale University.
The Labor of Training Artificial Intelligence: Data Infrastructure, Mobility, and Marginality
Ben Zefeng Zhang, Oliver L. Haimson, Michaelanne Thomas
Workshop position paper for CHI 2023 Behind the Scenes of Automation Workshop.
2022
The Relational Infrastructure of Sociotechnical Engagements in Havana
Michaelanne Thomas
Paper presentation for the Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
Reimagining digital technology for the “new normal:” A feminist approach to freedom and social inclusion
Sara Vannini, Andrea Jimenez, Marisol Wong Villacres, Michaelanne Thomas
Working Group 9.4 Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development at the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) on the (Paper Track). IFIP 9.4 2022
Five Declarations on Borders for HCI: A Series of Position Statements from the AnthroTech Lab
Sylvia Darling, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Shanley Corvite, Alexis Herrera, Hibby Thach, Suanmuanlian Tonsing, Michaelanne Thomas
Workshop position paper for CHI 2022 HCI Across Borders Workshop.
The Chinese Diaspora and the Attempted WeChat Ban: Platform Precarity, Anticipated Impacts, and Infrastructural Migration
Ben Zefeng Zhang, Oliver Haimson, Michaelanne Thomas
Workshop position paper for CHI 2022 HCI Across Borders Workshop.
2021
On Slow Scholarship and Radical Rest
Michaelanne Thomas
Invited speaker for Cornell Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact
Cuban Splinternets
Michaelanne Thomas
Paper presentation for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
The Chinese Diaspora: Overlapping Life Transitions, Barriers, and HCI
Ben Zefeng Zhang, Oliver L Haimson, Michaelanne Dye
A workshop position paper for CHI workshop on Migration and Mobility in HCI: Rethinking Boundaries, Methods, and Impact. CHI 2021.
2020
Culture After Tech Culture, Unimaginable?
Michaelanne Dye
Invited panelist for the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing (ESC) Launch Event
Innovation at the Margins: Lived Conceptualizations of Technoculture in Havana
Michaelanne Dye
Paper presentation for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
Public Scholarship and CSCW: Trials and Twitterations
Sarah A Gilbert, Casey Fiesler, Lindsay Blackwell, Michael Ann DeVito, Michaelanne Dye, Shamika Goddard, Kishonna L Gray, David Nemer, C Estelle Smith
CSCW 2020
2019
Beyond Access: Human Infrastructures in Constrained Contexts
Michaelanne Dye
Invited speaker for Georgia Tech’s GVU Brown Bag Speaker Series
Connecting and Computing in Cuba
Michaelanne Dye
Invited speaker for The Center for Computing & Society at Georgia Tech
Creating Your Own Path in ICTD
Michaelanne Dye
Invited panelist for the Information Communication Technologies & Development 2019 Conference
If It Rains, Ask Grandma to Disconnect the Nano: Maintenance & Care in Havana’s StreetNet
Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Neha Kumar, Amy S. Bruckman
Paper presentation and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. Volume 4, Issue CSCW
Intersectional Computing for Technology and Development
Neha Kumar, Christian Sturm, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Naveena Karusala, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Leonel Vinicio Morales Diaz, Rita Orji, Michaelanne Dye, Nova Ahmed, Susan Dray
CHI 2019
Havana’s StreetNet: Contending with Power and Privilege in a Grassroots Intranet
Michaelanne Dye
Workshop position paper for Workshop: Design and the Politics of Collaboration: A Grassroots Perspective. CSCW 2019.
2018
How is the Digital Age Playing Out Around the Globe?
Michaelanne Dye
Invited panelist for The Atlantic’s Humanity + Tech Conference, MIT Media Lab
Using Social Media to Navigate Extended Crisis: The Case of the Venezuelan Diaspora
Michaelanne Dye
Invited speaker for Microsoft Research, Researcher Talks
Seamfully Interwoven: Piecing Together the Internet in Havana
Michaelanne Dye
Invited speaker for the College of Information & Communication at the University of Kentucky
Panelist
Michaelanne Dye
Invited panelist for the Georgia Tech Office for Hispanic Initiatives, Latino College and STEM Fair
El Paquete Semanal: The Week’s Internet in Havana
Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Josiah Mangiameli, Amy S. Bruckman, and Neha Kumar
Paper presentation at CHI 2018
Solidarity Across Borders: Navigating Intersections Towards Equity and Inclusion
Michaelanne Dye, Neha Kumar, Ari Shlesinger, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Morgan G. Ames, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Jacki O’Neill, Joyojeet Pal, Mary L. Gray
CSCW 2018
2017
Locating the Internet in the Parks of Havana
Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Laura Pina, Nithya Sambasivan, Amy S. Bruckman, and Neha Kumar
Paper presentation at CHI 2017
2016
U.S. and Cuba Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Michaelanne Dye
Invited panelist for the Georgia Tech Office for Hispanic Initiatives
Social Media and Internet Adoption in Cuba
Michaelanne Dye
Invited speaker at Google, Inc. Headquarters
Early Adopters of Internet and Social Media in Cuba
Michaelanne Dye, Annie Antón, and Amy S. Bruckman
Paper presentation at CSCW 2016
2015
Social Media and Repressive Regimes: The Case of Cuba and Venezuela
Michaelanne Dye, Eric Gilbert, Annie Antón, and Amy S. Bruckman
A workshop position paper for Workshop: Doing CSCW Research in Latin America: Differences, Opportunities, Challenges, Lessons Learned. CSCW 2015
2014
Leveraging Social Media Platforms in the Workplace
Michaelanne Dye
Keynote speaker at the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) Annual Conference
2013
Managing Your Social Media Brand: Professional, Political, and Personal Impacts
Michaelanne Dye
Keynote speaker for Georgia Tech’s Executive Roundtable Conference
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