Ingrid Erickson is a Research Fellow and Program Officer in the Digital Media and Learning Program at the Social Science Research Council. She received her PhD from the Center for Work, Technology & Organization at Stanford University in 2008. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of technology studies, communication, and organizational behavior, with a particular emphasis on the emergent practices surrounding locative technologies (e.g., GPS) in social contexts. Using primarily qualitative, ethnographic methodologies, she also focuses on understanding the implications of ubiquitous and mobile technologies on conceptualizations of place and space, boundaries of public and private, and rhetoric in the media. She has conducted research with the Social Computing Group at IBM's T J Watson Research Center and at Boeing' s Phantom Works research division. Ingrid has an MS in Information (with an emphasis in human-computer interaction) from the School of Information at University of Michigan and an MA in religious studies from University of Chicago Divinity School. Prior to coming to Stanford, she worked for ten years as an editor in the publishing industry.