Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan G. Ames

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
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Jenna Burrell

Adjunct Professor
how systematically excluded communities adapt technology, algorithmic fairness and transparency, human control over algorithms, ethnography
Coye Cheshire

Coye Cheshire

Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
Paul Duguid

Paul Duguid

Adjunct Professor
The concept of information; the history of information; the history of "technocracy"; critical information studies.
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Andrew Reddie

Assistant Professor of Practice
Politics, Security, Emerging Technologies, Arms Control, Global Governance, Cybersecurity

Recent Publications

The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD
Apr 22, 2015
Wireless Visions: Infrastructure, Imagination, and US Spectrum Policy
Mar 16, 2015
From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China
Dec 20, 2013
Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India
Sep 1, 2013
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana.
May 1, 2012
The political life of information: “Information” and the practice of governance in India
Dec 15, 2011
None of us is as lazy as all of us: Social Intelligence and Loafing in Information Pools
Jul 10, 2010
Trust and Transitions in Modes of Social Exchange
Jul 1, 2010
Self-presentation, Interpersonal Perception, and Relationship Initiation Through Computer-Mediated Communication
Jun 30, 2010
Social Operational Information, Competence, and Participation in Online Collective Action
Apr 1, 2010

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Social & Cultural Studies news

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Hany Farid on the Rise of Deepfake Pornography As Twitch Streamers Speak Out
Feb 14, 2023
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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.

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Professor John Chuang and Ph.D. Student Ando Shah Work With OpenEarth Foundation
Jan 25, 2023
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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. 

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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.

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Coye Cheshire on BeReal and the Future of Social Media
Aug 10, 2022
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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.

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NPR Cites Hany Farid’s Research on AI-Generated Faces in Investigation of Fake LinkedIn Profiles
Mar 27, 2022
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Hany Farid on Deepfakes, Lies, and Cheerleading
Apr 22, 2022
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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.

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