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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

Shazeda Ahmed
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
Deirdre Mulligan Wary of “Unknown Fund” and Blockchains
Nov 14, 2019
Ben Arnoldy
“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 G. Ames
Morgan Ames on Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Tech-Free Schools
Sep 20, 2019
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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.

Morgan G. Ames
Interview with Morgan Ames on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child”
Oct 7, 2019
Krista Mar
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
Steve Fadden Speaks Design at UXINDIA 2019
Sep 12, 2019
Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg on Gender Pronouns and Sam Smith
Sep 13, 2019

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