Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Associate 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
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Eric T. Meyer

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

Recent Publications

Evaluating Shared Access: Social Equality and the Circulation of the Mobile Phones in Rural Uganda
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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Groundbreaking new book reports on a three-year ethnographic investigation of young people's use of digital technology. Twenty-three different case studies reveal the intricate dynamics of youth's social and recreational use of digital media.
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Order, Coordination and Uncertainty
Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It
Assessing Trustworthiness in Providers of Online Goods and Services
Trust and Reputation: Introduction
An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profile

Social & Cultural Studies news

Richmond Wong
I School Team Reimagines “Privacy by Design,” and Wins Best Paper Award

Instead of looking for design solutions to fix existing problems in privacy, I School researchers used speculative design fictions to explore the potential privacy issues that may arise in future uses and adoptions of emerging biosensing technologies.

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Buckland’s Information and Society Wins Book of the Year Award

Information and Society, by emeritus professor Michael Buckland wins ASIS&T’s 2018 Best Information Science Book Award.

Nancy Van House: Periscope, Congress and the aliveness of video
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New Center to Fund Research on Technology, Society, and Policy
Is technology affecting our mental health? Can technology support free speech and still protect against harassment? How do we embed our biases in big data algorithms? The Center for Technology, Society & Policy wants to explore these questions and more.
David Bamman
New Professor David Bamman is a Scholar of Computational Humanities and Social Sciences
Bamman’s work applies natural language processing and machine learning techniques to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences.
Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang Named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Pacific Power Index
Professor Xiao was named to the list for “for taking on China’s Great Firewall of censorship.”
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How Government Documents Enable Transparency and Accountability
New research presents case studies from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Rajasthan, India, at the turn of the 20th century; and a present-day Indian welfare system.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Can Open Government Initiatives Combat Corruption?
Ph.D. student Rajesh Veeraraghavan is analyzing the effects of an Indian “open government” initiative, which uses information transparency to fight corruption in the distribution of government benefits.
Elisa Oreglia
Ph.D. Student Honored for Research on Internet Use in Rural China
Elisa Oreglia honored for the best graduate student paper on China and inner Asia at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference.
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The Grass-Mud Horse, Online Censorship, and China's National Identity
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang documents the spread of subversive online wordplay and its implications for China’s sense of national identity and political future.