[Air-l] Residential mobility and technology use

[Laura O'Grady]

Hi Irina,

>I am a graduate student in HCI at Carnegie Mellon University and am 
>starting my dissertation on the topic of residential mobility as a natural 
>experiment on the health of social ties (how people use/don't use 
>technology for keeping in touch and creating new relationships and whether

There is some research in HIV/AIDS that shows strong reliance on technology 
to share treatment information.  Your work might be easier if you picked a 
particular illness and looked at the literature from that point of view.

>they are successful). I am specifically interested in migration within 
>country, not international migration. I was wondering if anyone knows of

Also within HIV/AIDS, many migrate to large cities as these tend to have 
speciality clinics, more social services and community resources.  I don't 
know of any literature on this, the information is more anecdotal.

Laura
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Laura O'Grady
Ph.D. Candidate
OISE / University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~logrady/
logrady at oise.utoronto.ca
l.ogrady at sympatico.ca
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