Computer-mediated Communication

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Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
Adjunct Professor
how systematically excluded communities adopt technology and adapt it to their needs, human control over algorithms, ethnography
Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
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Computer-mediated Communication news

An increasing number of apps let users share their heartrate with friends. Now a pair of researchers are exploring how sharing your biosignals can affect your interpersonal interactions.

School of Information faculty and students are presenting their research on human-computer interaction in Toronto this week at the annual CHI conference.
Elisa Oreglia honored for the best graduate student paper on China and inner Asia at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference.
How can students work together in the new generation of online courses? And how can online systems support and encourage peer learning? A new School of Information research project aims to answer these questions and more.
Research on Sharetribe, a community sharing site, found that users fear owing each other a debt of gratitude and are reluctant to ask for help.
New research reveals how information systems can replace person-to-person service encounters by substituting information for interaction.