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

Professor

how marginalized communities adapt technology, algorithmic fairness and opacity, 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

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

Evaluating Shared Access: Social Equality and the Circulation of the Mobile Phones in Rural Uganda

Jan 20, 2010

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

Nov 30, 2009

Groundbreaking new book reports on a three-year ethnographic investigation of young people's use of digital technology. Twenty-three different case studies reveal the intricate dynamics of youth's social and recreational use of digital media.

Order, Coordination and Uncertainty

Oct 15, 2009

Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It

Sep 26, 2009

Trust and Reputation: Introduction

Sep 1, 2009

Assessing Trustworthiness in Providers of Online Goods and Services

Sep 1, 2009

Social & Cultural Studies news

Shazeda Ahmed on the Messy Truth About Social Credit

Apr 23, 2019

Ph.D. student Shazeda Ahmed writes that foreign media has painted a dystopian portrait of China’s social credit system. The reality is both less coherent and more complex.

Alumna Jennifer King’s Dissertation Honored by iSchools Organization

Jan 30, 2019

School of Information alumna Jennifer King was honored by the iSchools organization for her doctoral dissertation, “Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory.”

I School Team Reimagines “Privacy by Design,” and Wins Best Paper Award

Dec 6, 2018

Instead of looking for design solutions to fix existing problems in privacy, I School researchers used speculative design fictions to explore the potential privacy issues that may arise in future uses and adoptions of emerging biosensing technologies.

Information and Society, by Michael Buckland

Buckland’s Information and Society Wins Book of the Year Award

Aug 28, 2018

Information and Society, by emeritus professor Michael Buckland wins ASIS&T’s 2018 Best Information Science Book Award.

Nancy Van House: Periscope, Congress and the aliveness of video

Jun 29, 2016

New Center to Fund Research on Technology, Society, and Policy

Sep 15, 2015

Is technology affecting our mental health? Can technology support free speech and still protect against harassment? How do we embed our biases in big data algorithms? The Center for Technology, Society & Policy wants to explore these questions and more.

New Professor David Bamman is a Scholar of Computational Humanities and Social Sciences

Sep 1, 2015

Bamman’s work applies natural language processing and machine learning techniques to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences.

Xiao Qiang Named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Pacific Power Index

Jan 27, 2015

Professor Xiao was named to the list for “for taking on China’s Great Firewall of censorship.”

How Government Documents Enable Transparency and Accountability

Feb 6, 2014

New research presents case studies from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Rajasthan, India, at the turn of the 20th century; and a present-day Indian welfare system.

Can Open Government Initiatives Combat Corruption?

Oct 8, 2013

Ph.D. student Rajesh Veeraraghavan is analyzing the effects of an Indian “open government” initiative, which uses information transparency to fight corruption in the distribution of government benefits.