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

Paul Duguid

Adjunct Professor

The concept of information; the history of information; the history of "technocracy"; critical information studies.

Andrew Reddie

Assistant Professor of Practice

Politics, Security, Emerging Technologies, Arms Control, Global Governance, Cybersecurity

Recent Publications

Thinking Relationally About Digital Inequality in Rural America

Jun 4, 2018

Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory

May 11, 2018

Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks

Nov 30, 2017

Information and Society

Mar 2, 2017

'Connected Learning’ and the Equity Agenda: A Microsociology of Minecraft Play

Feb 1, 2017

These Aren't the Autonomous Drones You're Looking for: Investigating Privacy Concerns Through Concept Videos

Dec 5, 2016

Philosophy of Computational Social Science

Oct 1, 2016

When a Product Is Still Fictional: Anticipating and Speculating Futures through Concept Videos

Jun 6, 2016

We analyze the concept videos of Google Glass and Microsoft Hololens, viewing them as design fictions that project a vision about the future of computing. Analyzing these videos along with media articles during the time period after the products were announced but before they were available to the public, we begin to see how people use the videos to imagine different types of futures - including imagining different implications that these technologies might have on privacy.

robots.txt: An Ethnographic Investigation of Automated Software Agents in User-Generated Content Platforms

Dec 15, 2015

The Ageing of Information

Aug 1, 2015

Social & Cultural Studies news

Hany Farid on the Rise of Deepfake Pornography As Twitch Streamers Speak Out

Feb 14, 2023

two headshots; one man with child on shoulders, Kevin Lustig; man hiking, Ando Shah

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.

Professor John Chuang and Ph.D. Student Ando Shah Work With OpenEarth Foundation

Jan 25, 2023

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.

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.

Coye Cheshire on BeReal and the Future of Social Media

Aug 10, 2022

photo of Richmond Wong, smiling, on the UC Berkeley campus near Sather Gate

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.

NPR Cites Hany Farid’s Research on AI-Generated Faces in Investigation of Fake LinkedIn Profiles

Mar 27, 2022

Hany Farid on Deepfakes, Lies, and Cheerleading

Apr 22, 2022

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.