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

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

Social & Cultural Studies news

I School Class Marries Climate Change Mitigation and Information Sciences

Apr 14, 2023

Led by Professor John Chuang, Info 290: Climate, People, and Informatics seeks to explore the burgeoning field of climate informatics and equip students with the necessary language and contextual knowledge to contribute.

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.