This study examines different aspects of media sharing within Mobile Vaani - an Android app that displays crowdsourced news recordings from rural communities in many states in India. We have developed a feature that facilitates offline sharing of these new recordings, in light of the relatively high cost of mobile data in the areas where Mobile Vaani is most used. As Mobile Vaani and offline sharing are launched, we propose a study of the learning processes and sharing practices among users of the app in order to further understand why and how people share mobile media content within a community.
In the TanDEm lab, we focus on matters relating to the design, deployment, adoption, and use of technologies towards empowerment - of underserved and under-represented communities in resource-constrained regions across the world.
