Social & Cultural Studies

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Jenna Burrell

Associate Professor
jenna@ischool.berkeley.edu
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Focus: technology appropriation in non-Western societies, technology and socio-economic development, qualitative research methods
(510) 642-7584
Coye Cheshire

Coye Cheshire

Associate Professor
coye@ischool.berkeley.edu
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Focus: Social exchange, social psychology, social networks and information exchange
(510) 643-6388
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Paul Duguid

Adjunct Professor
duguid@ischool.berkeley.edu
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Focus: The concept of information; the history of information; the history of trademarks and their informational role; critical information studies.
(510) 643-3894
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Geoffrey Nunberg

Adjunct Professor
nunberg@ischool.berkeley.edu
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Focus: The theory, history and social role of "information."
(510) 643-3894
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Xiao Qiang

Adjunct Professor
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Focus: Digital Media, Informational Politics and Internet Freedom

Recent Publications

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Information and Society
Mar 2, 2017
These Aren't the Autonomous Drones You're Looking for: Investigating Privacy Concerns Through Concept Videos
Dec 5, 2016
Philosophy of Computational Social Science
Oct 1, 2016
When a Product Is Still Fictional: Anticipating and Speculating Futures through Concept Videos
Jun 6, 2016

We analyze the concept videos of Google Glass and Microsoft Hololens, viewing them as design fictions that project a vision about the future of computing. Analyzing these videos along with media articles during the time period after the products were announced but before they were available to the public, we begin to see how people use the videos to imagine different types of futures - including imagining different implications that these technologies might have on privacy.

robots.txt: An Ethnographic Investigation of Automated Software Agents in User-Generated Content Platforms
Dec 15, 2015
The Ageing of Information
Aug 1, 2015
The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD
Apr 22, 2015
Wireless Visions: Infrastructure, Imagination, and US Spectrum Policy
Mar 16, 2015
From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China
Dec 20, 2013
Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India
Sep 1, 2013

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Social & Cultural Studies news

Nancy Van House: Periscope, Congress and the aliveness of video
Jun 29, 2016
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New Center to Fund Research on Technology, Society, and Policy
Sep 15, 2015
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
Sep 1, 2015
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
Jan 27, 2015
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
Feb 6, 2014
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?
Oct 8, 2013
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
Mar 27, 2013
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
Dec 5, 2012
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang documents the spread of subversive online wordplay and its implications for China’s sense of national identity and political future.
Elisa Oreglia
Elisa Oreglia Profiles Rural Chinese Internet Users
May 24, 2012
New research by Ph.D. student Elisa Oreglia looks under the surface of rural Chinese Internet use and reveals a rich nuanced relationship between older, less-educated Chinese villagers, computers, and the Internet.
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Ghana, Online Scamming, and the Internet’s Broken Promises
Apr 27, 2012
New research by Jenna Burrell looks under the surface of Internet culture in Ghana, exploring why many Ghanaians have struggled to form connections with foreigners and to share in the prosperity of the information age.

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