Srinivasan earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, followed by a master’s degree in Media Studies from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD in Design from Harvard University, where his research focused on the intersection of technology, design, and culture.[2] From 2004 to 2005, he served as a teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Department of Visual and Environmental Design.[3]
He is also the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab,[5] which examines how new media technologies impact businesses, economics, cultures, politics, labor, and the environment through collaborations with global partners. He is on the board of directors for Digital Democracy,[6] which works with land protectors in the Amazon.
Srinivasan's books include Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World, After the Internet with Adam Fish, and Beyond the Valley, which Forbes listed as a top ten tech book in 2019.[8]
Srinivasan has worked with bloggers who overthrew the recent authoritarian Kyrgyz regime,[11][12][13] non-literate tribal populations in India to study how literacy emerges through uses of technology,[14] and traditional Native American communities to study how non-Western understandings of the world can introduce new ways of looking at cultural heritage and the future of the internet and networked technologies.[15][16][17] His work has impacted contemporary understandings of media studies, anthropology and sociology, design, and economic and political development studies.[18]
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