Computer-mediated Communication

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
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Jenna Burrell

Adjunct Professor
how systematically excluded communities adopt technology and adapt it to their needs, human control over algorithms, ethnography
Coye Cheshire

Coye Cheshire

Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
Niloufar Salehi is an assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley..

Niloufar Salehi

Assistant Professor

Recent Publications

Has an AI model been trained on your images?
Privacy guarantees for personal mobility data in humanitarian response
Definitions of Fairness Differ Across Socioeconomic Groups & Shape Perceptions of Algorithmic Decisions
Using AI/Machine Learning to Extract Data from Japanese American Confinement Records
Conspiracy, misinformation, radicalisation: understanding the online pathway to indoctrination and opportunities for intervention
Examining children’s design processes, perspective-taking, and collaboration when using VR head-mounted displays
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Blank Slate: Freedom, Connection, and Accountability in U.S. Virtual Schools

For a small portion of U.S. schoolchildren and their teachers, going to school online was the norm even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a mass shift to remote learning.

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Sensemaking and the Chemtrail Conspiracy on the Internet: Insights from Believers and Ex-believers
Sensor-Mediated Empathy: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Social Biosensing
In Search of a “Fair Explanation”: Helping Young People to Consider the Possibilities, Limitations, and Risks of Computer- and Data-Mediated Systems

Computer-mediated Communication news

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Getting the Whole Story: I School Professor and Stanford Computer Science Student Create AI News Anchor

In an episode of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, an AI-generated version of the news anchor, made by Professor Hany Farid and his undergrad intern Matyas Bohacek, was incorporated into the broadcast.

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New Data Visualization Research Points to the Importance of Text in Information Visualization

Hearst has begun explicitly studying the relationship between language — especially written text — and information visualization. She put various ideas together in a paper in the Communications of the ACM this October of 2023.

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Deceptive Mirage: Unraveling the Threat of Election Deepfakes

‘Tis the season for political pundits, patriotic advertisements, presidential debates…and deepfakes?!

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What the Bots Are Reading: Berkeley Researchers Investigate the Popular Works Memorized by ChatGPT

In the recently published Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4, I School Associate Professor David Bamman reveals much about what is known and remains to be known about the large language model (LLM) fueling ChatGPT. 

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David Bamman Discovers ChatGPT’s Reading List and Internet Culture Go Hand in Hand
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Marti Hearst Appears on TWIML AI Podcast: Are LLMs Overhyped or Underappreciated?
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When Scam Calls Come Calling, Hany Farid Explains Why and How
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Hany Farid Shows How Easy It Is To Clone a Voice After Parents Face A.I Scam
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NBC News Speaks to Hany Farid About ChatGPT
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Hany Farid: Rushing to Monetize Generative AI Has Massive Misinformation Consequences