{"615101":{"#nid":"615101","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Media Ph.D. Student Named United Nations Data Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdriana Alvarado Garcia, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Digital Media program, has been\u0026nbsp;selected as a United Nations (UN) data fellow.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlvarado will join\u0026nbsp;the first cohort of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.unglobalpulse.org\/pulse-labs\u0022\u003EUnited Nations Global Pulse initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, which works\u0026nbsp;to promote awareness of the opportunities big data presents for sustainable development and humanitarian action.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As a UN Data Fellow, I am looking forward to working with an interdisciplinary team and learning from researchers and practitioners\u0026rsquo; experiences when designing for constrained contexts,\u0026rdquo; Alvarado says.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn her research, Alvarado is looking into the relationship between communities and the collective production of data. In this context, she is interested in the role of local capabilities and expertise coming from citizens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy understanding how data and community practices of citizens may contribute to the work of NGOs, Alvarado is seeking to build better tools to inform on-the-ground efforts to address issues of public safety and political reform through data synthesis and analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdriana Alvarado Garcia, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Digital Media program, has been\u0026nbsp;selected as a United Nations (UN) data fellow.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Adriana Alvarado Garcia will join the first cohort of the U.N.\u0027s Global Pulse initiative."}],"uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-12-06 21:48:51","changed_gmt":"2018-12-12 19:18:51","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615100":{"id":"615100","type":"image","title":"Adriana Alvarado Garcia","body":null,"created":"1544132898","gmt_created":"2018-12-06 21:48:18","changed":"1544132898","gmt_changed":"2018-12-06 21:48:18","alt":"A portrait photo of Adriana Alvarado Garcia","file":{"fid":"234212","name":"Photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Photo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Photo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113190,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Photo.jpg?itok=t5ZdSQhc"}}},"media_ids":["615100"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179947","name":"Adriana Alvarado Garcia"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"2628","name":"united nations"},{"id":"179948","name":"Global Pulse"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}