Social & Cultural Studies

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
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
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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
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Eric Meyer

Dean (starting August 2024)
Social informatics, digital transformation, knowledge, data

Recent Publications

When BCIs have APIs: Design Fictions of Everyday Brain-Computer Interface Adoption
Thinking Relationally About Digital Inequality in Rural America
Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory
Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks
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Information and Society
'Connected Learning’ and the Equity Agenda: A Microsociology of Minecraft Play
These Aren't the Autonomous Drones You're Looking for: Investigating Privacy Concerns Through Concept Videos
Philosophy of Computational Social Science
When a Product Is Still Fictional: Anticipating and Speculating Futures through Concept Videos

We analyze the concept videos of Google Glass and Microsoft Hololens, viewing them as design fictions that project a vision about the future of computing. Analyzing these videos along with media articles during the time period after the products were announced but before they were available to the public, we begin to see how people use the videos to imagine different types of futures - including imagining different implications that these technologies might have on privacy.

robots.txt: An Ethnographic Investigation of Automated Software Agents in User-Generated Content Platforms

Social & Cultural Studies news

Hany Farid
Hany Farid: Google Is Not Cracking Down on the Most Dangerous Drug in America
Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang on the Chinese Response to George Floyd Protests
Hany Farid
All’s Clear for Deepfakes? Think Again.

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

Josh Blumenstock
Joshua Blumenstock Addresses Housing Insecurity in the Wake of COVID-19

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.

Aditya Parameswaran
Aditya Parameswaran Builds App to Track the Impact of Distancing Measures
Hany Farid
Hany Farid Fights Back Against Coronavirus Misinformation

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

Professor Coye Cheshire
Coye Cheshire: Google Skips April Fools’ Day amid Coronavirus
Marc Faddoul UC Berkeley AI researcher
Alumnus Marc Faddoul Cautious of COVID-19 Conspiracies on Social Media
In-person classes are canceled at Berkeley but my class recordings still go on at the same place at the same time, so I give an NLP performance to an empty room.
David Bamman Lectures to an Empty Room
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child
Morgan Ames’s Charisma Machine Featured in Los Angeles Review of Books

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