Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Associate Professor of Practice
Alumni (MIMS 2006)
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
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Eric T. Meyer

Dean & Chancellor’s Professor of Social Informatics
Social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, data

Recent Publications

The Ageing of Information
The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD
Wireless Visions: Infrastructure, Imagination, and US Spectrum Policy
From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China
Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana.
The political life of information: “Information” and the practice of governance in India
None of us is as lazy as all of us: Social Intelligence and Loafing in Information Pools
Trust and Transitions in Modes of Social Exchange
Self-presentation, Interpersonal Perception, and Relationship Initiation Through Computer-Mediated Communication

Social & Cultural Studies news

Krista Mar
Alumna Krista Mar Seeks Fair Representation in the 2020 Census
Morgan G. Ames
Morgan Ames on Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Tech-Free Schools
Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg on Gender Pronouns and Sam Smith
Steve Fadden
Steve Fadden Speaks Design at UXINDIA 2019
danah boyd
Watch danah boyd on the Spread of Conspiracies and Hate Online
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Geoff Nunberg Discusses AI on Fresh Air
AnnaLee Saxenian
Bloomberg Cites AnnaLee Saxenian’s Research on the Benefits of High-Skill Immigration
Geoff Nunberg
A Conversation with Geoff Nunberg on The Hidden Consequences of Being a Jerk Online
Shazeda Ahmed
Shazeda Ahmed on the Messy Truth About Social Credit

Ph.D. student Shazeda Ahmed writes that foreign media has painted a dystopian portrait of China’s social credit system. The reality is both less coherent and more complex.

Jen King
Alumna Jennifer King’s Dissertation Honored by iSchools Organization

School of Information alumna Jennifer King was honored by the iSchools organization for her doctoral dissertation, “Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory.”