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

When BCIs have APIs: Design Fictions of Everyday Brain-Computer Interface Adoption

Jun 13, 2018

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

Social & Cultural Studies news

Shazeda Ahmed Explains the Chinese Social Credit System

Jan 15, 2020

A real life Black Mirror? Ph.D. student Shazeda Ahmed explains the Chinese Social Credit System.

Deirdre Mulligan Wary of “Unknown Fund” and Blockchains

Nov 14, 2019

“Data for Good” Fellowship Awardee Fights Climate Change with Data Science Communications

Nov 6, 2019

MIDS student Ben Arnoldy has been awarded the Fall 2019 Jack Larson Data Science for Good Fellowship for his work involving the use of data science to educate the public on climate change and pollution.

Morgan Ames on Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Tech-Free Schools

Sep 20, 2019

Bloc by Bloc. Image courtesy of Harvard University Press.

Steven Weber Deconstructs the Future, Bloc by Bloc

Oct 22, 2019

In his newly published book, Bloc by Bloc, Professor Steven Weber explores the future of the global enterprise as international tensions reach new heights.

Interview with Morgan Ames on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child”

Oct 7, 2019

Alumna Krista Mar Seeks Fair Representation in the 2020 Census

Oct 4, 2019

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

Morgan Ames’ The Charisma Machine: A Deep Dive into One Laptop per Child

Oct 15, 2019

Morgan G. Ames explores the rise and fall of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in her new book, The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child.

Steve Fadden Speaks Design at UXINDIA 2019

Sep 12, 2019

Geoffrey Nunberg on Gender Pronouns and Sam Smith

Sep 13, 2019