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

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 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.”

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.

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.

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.

The Grass-Mud Horse, Online Censorship, and China's National Identity

Dec 5, 2012

Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang documents the spread of subversive online wordplay and its implications for China’s sense of national identity and political future.

Elisa Oreglia Profiles Rural Chinese Internet Users

May 24, 2012

New research by Ph.D. student Elisa Oreglia looks under the surface of rural Chinese Internet use and reveals a rich nuanced relationship between older, less-educated Chinese villagers, computers, and the Internet.

Ghana, Online Scamming, and the Internet’s Broken Promises

Apr 27, 2012

New research by Jenna Burrell looks under the surface of Internet culture in Ghana, exploring why many Ghanaians have struggled to form connections with foreigners and to share in the prosperity of the information age.

I School Scholars Present at Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Conference

Feb 9, 2012

Two I School Articles Featured in Daedalus Journal

Nov 9, 2011