Publications
Below is a list of my publications
including scholarly papers, journal articles
and academic theses.
Papers
and Articles
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2003). Community Technology and Community Building:
Early Results from the Creating Community Connections Project. In
Venkatesh, M. (Ed.), The Information Society, 19(5), Abingdon,
Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis Journals and Books.
Pinkett,
Randal D. and Steve Davies, Andrew Wiley-Schwartz, and Lisa Servon.
(2003). Community Technology Centers as Catalysts for Community
Change. New York, NY: Ford Foundation.
Pinkett,
Randal D. & Richard M. Roper. (2002). Opening the Door: Technology
and the Development of University-Community Partnerships. New
York, NY: Seedco.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2002). The Digital Divide. In Lee, R. (Ed.), 2002
Encyclopedia of Information Systems. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2002). Toward Social and Cultural Resonance with Technology:
Case Studies from the Creating Community Connections Project. Proceedings
from the International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS):
Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology. Raleigh,
NC: Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), June
6-8.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2002). Integrating Community Technology and Community
Building: Early Results from the Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community
Connections Project. Proceedings of Shaping the Network Society:
The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace, Directions and Implications
of Advanced Computing Symposium 2002 (DIAC-2002). Seattle, WA: Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility, May 16-19.
Pinkett,
Randal D. & O’Bryant, Richard L. (2001). Building Community,
Empowerment and Self-Sufficiency: Early Results from the Camfield
Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project. Proceedings
of Digital Communities 2001 Conference. Evanston, IL: Northwestern
University, November 4-6.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2001). Community Technology and Community Building:
Early Results from the Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections
Project. Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools
of Planning (ACSP) 2001 Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH: Association
of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), November 8-11.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2001). The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community
Connections Project: Strategies for Active Participation in a Low-
to Moderate-Income Community. Proceedings of the Second Annual
Kyoto Meeting on Digital Cities. Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Research Park,
October 18-20.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2001). The Digital Divide and Economic Development. Position
paper for the Doctoral Digital Divide (D3) Conference. Ann Arbor,
MI: University of Michigan, August 2-5.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2001). The Creating Community Connections (C3) System:
Community Created, Community Focused, Community Content in a Low-
to Moderate-Income Community. Report to the U.S. Department of
Commerce, Ars Portalis Project. U.S. Department of Commerce: Washington,
D.C., June 29.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2001). Bridging the Digital Divide: The Role of Community
Technology for the Purpose of Community Building. Paper presented
at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association
(AERA). New Orleans, LA: AERA, April 12-15.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2001). Community Technology and Community Building:
Sociocultural Constructionism and an Asset-Based Approach in a Low-Income
Community. In Townsend, A. (Ed.), Projections–The MIT Student
Journal of Planning: Making Places Through Information
Technology. Canton, MA: Sherman Printing.
Pinkett,
Randal D. & Turner, Nicol E. (2000). Closing the Digital Divide:
An Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology and Community Building. Proceedings
of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2000 Annual
Conference. Atlanta, GA: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
(ACSP), November 2-5.
Pinkett,
Randal D. & Turner, Nicol E. (2000). An Asset-Based Approach
to Community Building and Community Technology. Proceedings of
Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace,
Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Symposium 2000 (DIAC-2000).
Seattle, WA: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, May
20-23.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (2000). Bridging the Digital Divide: Sociocultural Constructionism
and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology and Community
Building. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA). New Orleans, LA: AERA, April
24-28.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (1999). Strategies for Motivating Minorities to Engage
Computers. Position paper for the Carnegie Mellon Symposium on
Minorities and Computers, National Science Foundation (NSF). Pittsburgh,
PA: Carnegie Mellon University.
Theses
Pinkett,
Randal. D. (2002). Creating Community Connections: Sociocultural
Constructionism and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology
and Community Building. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Media Laboratory, January 11.
Dissertation
Advisor: Professor Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Laboraotry
Dissertation
Committee: Professor Ceasar McDowell, MIT Department of Urban Studies
and Planning, Professor Brian Smith, MIT Media Laboratory, Dr. Holly
Carter, Community Technology Development, Inc., Dr. Alan Shaw, Linking
Up Villages, Inc.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (1998). Product Development Process Modeling and Analysis
of Digital Wireless Telephones. Unpublished M.S./M.B.A. Thesis.
Cambridge, MA: MIT School of Engineering; MIT Sloan School of Management,
MIT Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) Program, May 8.
Thesis
Advisors: Professor Steven D. Eppinger, MIT Sloan School of Management;
Dr. Daniel Whitney, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Pinkett,
Randal D. (1996). Hardware/Software Co-Design and Digital Speech
Processing. Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis. Oxford, England: Keble
College, University of Oxford, May 17.
Thesis
Advisors: Ian Page, Department of Computing, University of Oxford,
Oxford, England
Thesis Committee: Wayne Luk, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London,
England.