Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
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 adopt technology and adapt it to their needs, human control over algorithms, ethnography
Coye Cheshire

Coye Cheshire

Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
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Eric T. Meyer

Dean & Chancellor’s Professor of Social Informatics
Social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, data

Recent Publications

Public Mobility Data Enables COVID-19 Forecasting and Management at Local and Global Scales
Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton
Information: A Historical Companion

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
Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice
Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

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. 

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development.

When Users Control the Algorithms: values expressed in practices on Twitter.
Early marks: American trademarks before US trademark law
A Terrifying Journey to the Centre of Politics: Political Centrism as an Effect of Mortality Salience and a Need for Closure
Vivewell: Speculating Near-Future Menstrual Tracking through Current Data Practices

Social & Cultural Studies news

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Do Period-Tracking Apps and Other Software Pose a Threat to Privacy and Freedom?

Richmond Wong, Ph.D. ’20, shares how period-tracking apps share users’ data.

Hany Farid
Hany Farid on Deepfakes, Lies, and Cheerleading
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I School Ph.D. Students Honored with NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

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.

Hany Farid
NPR Cites Hany Farid’s Research on AI-Generated Faces in Investigation of Fake LinkedIn Profiles
Coye Cheshire
Coye Cheshire Discusses Social Norms Around 24/7 Digital Availability with the BBC
Andrew Reddie
Andrew Reddie Weighs In on Belarusian Cyber Attacks in the Context of the Russia-Ukraine Situation.
Shazeda Ahmed
Is There a Tech Cold War with China? Shazeda Ahmed Says No, Elaborates
Morgan G. Ames
Morgan Ames on the “Tech-Lash” Phenomenon
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New Elective Examines Antiracism in Technology

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

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