Publications

Conference Proceedings

🏆Adavi, K. A. K., & Acker, A. (2025). “Let’s ask Meta AI!”: Information Seeking Practices with Meta AI on WhatsApp. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1231

Wilner, T., Adavi, K. A. K., Mandava, S., Bhimdiwala, A., Frluckaj, H., Turns, J. & Arif, A. (2024). From Concept to Community: Unpacking the Work of Designing Educational and Activist Toolkits. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642681

Bhimdiwala, A., Adavi, K. A. K., & Arif, A. (2024). Fighting for Their Voice: Understanding Indian Muslim Women’s Responses to Networked Harassment. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641005/

Adavi, K. A. K., & Acker, A. (2023). What is a File on a Phone? Personal Information Management Practices Amongst WhatsApp Users. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610221/

Wilner, T., Adavi, K. A. K., Mandava, S., Bhimdiwala, A., Frluckaj, H., Turns, J. & Arif, A. (2024). From
Concept to Community: Unpacking the Work of Designing Educational and Activist Toolkits. Proceedings of
the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642681

Journal Articles

Adavi, K. A. K., & Hartelius, E. J. (2025). “Proud to Be the Enabler”: Closed System Ideology in the Origin Stories of Indian Technology Start-Ups. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 39(4), 467-503. https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519251348451

[Forthcoming – Accepted] Adavi, K. A. K., & Acker, A. (2026) A Platform Perspective for Personal Information Practices on Superapps. Platforms and Society.

Book Chapters

Adavi, K. A. K., and Surie, A. (2023). Teachers in India and EdTech: a new part of the gig economy?. In Arora, P., Raman, U., & Konig, R (eds.), Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy (pp. 157-166). Amsterdam University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2711713.16/

Nair, H & Das, S., & Adavi, K. A. K. (2020). Gandhi and the ‘Race’ Question. In Kumar, S (ed), Gandhi and the Contemporary World (pp. 157-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809447-11

Book Review

Adavi, K. A. K. (2020). Book Review: The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction by Mark Graham and Jamie Woodcock. LSE Review of Books. Retrieved July 15, 2025 from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2020/07/23/book-review-the-gig-economy-a-critical-introduction-by-jamie-woodcock-and-mark-graham/