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 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

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

An Examination of Language Use in Online Dating Profile

Jul 7, 2009

Social & Cultural Studies news

Morgan Ames on the “Tech-Lash” Phenomenon

Aug 20, 2021

New Elective Examines Antiracism in Technology

Aug 17, 2021

The School of Information is offering a new class this semester, Antiracism in Technology, open to all I School students.

Coye Cheshire on How the Gamification of the Stock Market Can Hurt Inexperienced Traders

Feb 1, 2021

‘Our Muslim Voices’ Scholars Receive Facebook Research Award

Jul 20, 2020

Prof. Salehi was awarded $100K from Facebook Research to study how Muslim Americans adopt counter-narratives online, empowering and giving voice to an often denigrated population.

COVID Shines a Light on Virtual Education

Jul 7, 2020

The sudden need for distance education relates to ongoing research by Prof. Jenna Burrell, Anne Jonas, Prof. Morgan G. Ames, who explore inequality and digitization in educational spaces.