Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan G. Ames

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
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Jenna Burrell

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

Coye Cheshire

Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
Paul Duguid

Paul Duguid

Adjunct Professor
The concept of information; the history of information; the history of "technocracy"; critical information studies.
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Andrew Reddie

Assistant Professor of Practice
Politics, Security, Emerging Technologies, Arms Control, Global Governance, Cybersecurity

Recent Publications

Situating Web Searching in Data Engineering: Admissions, Extensions, Repairs, and Ownership
Dec 16, 2022

 

 
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Exchange and the Creation of Trust and Solidarity across Cultures
Sep 6, 2022
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Sensemaking, Support, Safety, Retribution, Transformation: A Restorative Justice Approach to Understanding Adolescents’ Needs for Addressing Online Harm
May 13, 2022
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Blank Slate: Freedom, Connection, and Accountability in U.S. Virtual Schools
Dec 17, 2021

For a small portion of U.S. schoolchildren and their teachers, going to school online was the norm even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a mass shift to remote learning.

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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. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton
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
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. 

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Social & Cultural Studies news

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Hany Farid on the Rise of Deepfake Pornography As Twitch Streamers Speak Out
Feb 14, 2023
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Fellowship Recipients Strive to Use Technology to Understand Climate Change
Mar 21, 2023

Kevin Lustig and Ando Shah have been awarded the 2022–23 Quigley/Heffernan Family Environmental Fellowship.

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Professor John Chuang and Ph.D. Student Ando Shah Work With OpenEarth Foundation
Jan 25, 2023
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This Is the Worst Time for Donald Trump to Return to Twitter
Nov 20, 2022

Apparently, the people has spoken, and they want former President Donald Trump back on Twitter. However, Hany Farid believes that this would be the worst time for him to return to the social media platform. 

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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.

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Coye Cheshire on BeReal and the Future of Social Media
Aug 10, 2022
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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.

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NPR Cites Hany Farid’s Research on AI-Generated Faces in Investigation of Fake LinkedIn Profiles
Mar 27, 2022
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Hany Farid on Deepfakes, Lies, and Cheerleading
Apr 22, 2022
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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.

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