Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan Ames

Assistant 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

Jenna Burrell

Adjunct Professor

how systematically excluded communities adapt technology, algorithmic fairness and transparency, human control over algorithms, ethnography

Coye Cheshire

Professor

Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange

Paul Duguid

Adjunct Professor

The concept of information; the history of information; the history of "technocracy"; critical information studies.

Andrew Reddie

Assistant Professor of Practice

Politics, Security, Emerging Technologies, Arms Control, Global Governance, Cybersecurity

Recent Publications

Exchange and the Creation of Trust and Solidarity across Cultures

Sep 6, 2022

Sensemaking, Support, Safety, Retribution, Transformation: A Restorative Justice Approach to Understanding Adolescents’ Needs for Addressing Online Harm

May 13, 2022

Sensemaking and the Chemtrail Conspiracy on the Internet: Insights from Believers and Ex-believers

Oct 13, 2021

Public Mobility Data Enables COVID-19 Forecasting and Management at Local and Global Scales

May 1, 2021

Information: A Historical Companion

Jan 26, 2021

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945–1952

Nov 15, 2020

Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice

Jul 30, 2020

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Apr 1, 2020

This paper introduces "infrastructural speculations," an orientation towards speculation that aims to interrogate and ask questions about the broader lifeworld within which speculative artifacts sit, placing the lifeworld (rather than an individual artifact) at the center of a designer's concern.

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Nov 12, 2019

In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development.

When Users Control the Algorithms: values expressed in practices on Twitter.

Nov 1, 2019

Social & Cultural Studies news

Alex Hanna Considers Impact of Twitter Takeover

Nov 10, 2022

Alex Hanna discusses how social media impacts our democracy; how Twitter has affected past U.S. elections; and how Musk’s most recent changes to the platform could affect the flow of disinformation moving forward.

Coye Cheshire on BeReal and the Future of Social Media

Aug 10, 2022

photo of Richmond Wong, smiling, on the UC Berkeley campus near Sather Gate

Do Period-Tracking Apps and Other Software Pose a Threat to Privacy and Freedom?

Jun 27, 2022

Richmond Wong, Ph.D. ’20, shares how period-tracking apps share users’ data.

NPR Cites Hany Farid’s Research on AI-Generated Faces in Investigation of Fake LinkedIn Profiles

Mar 27, 2022

Hany Farid on Deepfakes, Lies, and Cheerleading

Apr 22, 2022

I School Ph.D. Students Honored with NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Apr 18, 2022

Two I School Ph.D. students, Liza Gak and Seyi Olojo, have been offered the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. Ph.D. student Tonya Nguyen received an honorable mention.