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

Recent Publications

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

Dec 16, 2022

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

AI generated image with fragments of US flags floating amidst blurry tan and blue blocks. An outline of what appears to be a child in a dress standing at a podium.

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.

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.

Social & Cultural Studies news

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.

Andrew Reddie Weighs In on Belarusian Cyber Attacks in the Context of the Russia-Ukraine Situation.

Jan 25, 2022

Coye Cheshire Discusses Social Norms Around 24/7 Digital Availability with the BBC

Feb 8, 2022

Is There a Tech Cold War with China? Shazeda Ahmed Says No, Elaborates

Nov 13, 2021

Morgan Ames on the “Tech-Lash” Phenomenon

Aug 20, 2021

New Elective Examines Antiracism in Technology

Aug 17, 2021

The School of Information is offering a new class this semester, Antiracism in Technology, open to all I School students.

Coye Cheshire on How the Gamification of the Stock Market Can Hurt Inexperienced Traders

Feb 1, 2021

‘Our Muslim Voices’ Scholars Receive Facebook Research Award

Jul 20, 2020

Prof. Salehi was awarded $100K from Facebook Research to study how Muslim Americans adopt counter-narratives online, empowering and giving voice to an often denigrated population.

COVID Shines a Light on Virtual Education

Jul 7, 2020

The sudden need for distance education relates to ongoing research by Prof. Jenna Burrell, Anne Jonas, Prof. Morgan G. Ames, who explore inequality and digitization in educational spaces.

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More Than A Number: How Users Interpret Neighborhood ‘Scores’

Jun 22, 2020

Associate Professor Jenna Burrell and Ph.D. student Elizabeth Resor Receive Google Faculty Award.