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: Trust, social exchange, social psychology, 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.
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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

Recent Publications

Differential Vulnerabilities and a Diversity of Tactics: What Toolkits Teach Us about Cybersecurity
Nov 8, 2018

We investigate cybersecurity toolkits, collections of public facing materials intended to help users achieve security online. We look at design dimensions of these toolkits, and investigate how the toolkits construct security as a value and how they construct people as (in)secure users.

Speculative Design in HCI: From Corporate Imaginations to Critical Orientations
Jun 28, 2018
When BCIs have APIs: Design Fictions of Everyday Brain-Computer Interface Adoption
Jun 13, 2018
Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory
May 11, 2018
Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks
Nov 30, 2017
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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

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Social & Cultural Studies news

Jen King
Alumna Jennifer King’s Dissertation Honored by iSchools Organization
Jan 30, 2019

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

Richmond Wong
I School Team Reimagines “Privacy by Design,” and Wins Best Paper Award
Dec 6, 2018

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.

Information and Society, by Michael Buckland
Buckland’s Information and Society Wins Book of the Year Award
Aug 28, 2018

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
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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