Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan G. 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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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

Social & Cultural Studies news

Hany Farid

Despite growing sentiments that deepfakes are the “dog that never barked,” Hany Farid believes the worst is yet to come.

Hany Farid

Prof. Farid: “Coronavirus misinformation is going to get a lot of people killed.”

Josh Blumenstock

Professor Josh Blumenstock is leading a team that has received a grant to investigate and address eviction spikes and displacement risks related to COVID-19.

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

Ames uses the One Laptop Per Child Program to explore the “complicated consequences of technological utopianism.”

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