Jenna Burrell

Current Status

I was a professor at the ISchool from 2007 until 2022. While there I co-founded the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group with my fellow ISchool professor Deirdre Mulligan. I left the ISchool to take the position of Director of Research at Data & Society, a non-profit research institute founded by ISchool alum danah boyd. I remain affiliated with the ISchool as I advise a few PhD students who are completing their dissertations, but I am not currently available to advise new and incoming PhD students. My website has the latest information about my affiliations.

My first book Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana (The MIT Press) came out in May 2012. More recently I have focused on the impact of technology, tele-work, and tech industries in rural America. My research focuses on how historically and systematically excluded communities adapt digital technologies to meet their needs and to pursue their goals and ideals.