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

Hany Farid: Google Is Not Cracking Down on the Most Dangerous Drug in America

Jun 11, 2020

Xiao Qiang on the Chinese Response to George Floyd Protests

Jun 3, 2020

All’s Clear for Deepfakes? Think Again.

May 11, 2020

Despite growing sentiments that deepfakes are the “dog that never barked,” Hany Farid believes the worst is yet to come.

Aditya Parameswaran Builds App to Track the Impact of Distancing Measures

May 1, 2020

Hany Farid Fights Back Against Coronavirus Misinformation

Apr 16, 2020

Prof. Farid: “Coronavirus misinformation is going to get a lot of people killed.”

Joshua Blumenstock Addresses Housing Insecurity in the Wake of COVID-19

May 1, 2020

Professor Josh Blumenstock is leading a team that has received a grant to investigate and address eviction spikes and displacement risks related to COVID-19.