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

Using AI/Machine Learning to Extract Data from Japanese American Confinement Records
Situating Web Searching in Data Engineering: Admissions, Extensions, Repairs, and Ownership

 

 
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Exchange and the Creation of Trust and Solidarity across Cultures
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Sensemaking, Support, Safety, Retribution, Transformation: A Restorative Justice Approach to Understanding Adolescents’ Needs for Addressing Online Harm
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Blank Slate: Freedom, Connection, and Accountability in U.S. Virtual Schools

For a small portion of U.S. schoolchildren and their teachers, going to school online was the norm even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a mass shift to remote learning.

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Sensemaking and the Chemtrail Conspiracy on the Internet: Insights from Believers and Ex-believers
Public Mobility Data Enables COVID-19 Forecasting and Management at Local and Global Scales
Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton
Information: A Historical Companion

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan 1945-1952
Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice

Social & Cultural Studies news

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I School Class Marries Climate Change Mitigation and Information Sciences

Led by Professor John Chuang, Info 290: Climate, People, and Informatics seeks to explore the burgeoning field of climate informatics and equip students with the necessary language and contextual knowledge to contribute. 

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Fellowship Recipients Strive to Use Technology to Understand Climate Change

Kevin Lustig and Ando Shah have been awarded the 2022–23 Quigley/Heffernan Family Environmental Fellowship.

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Hany Farid on the Rise of Deepfake Pornography As Twitch Streamers Speak Out
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Professor John Chuang and Ph.D. Student Ando Shah Work With OpenEarth Foundation
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This Is the Worst Time for Donald Trump to Return to Twitter

Apparently, the people has spoken, and they want former President Donald Trump back on Twitter. However, Hany Farid believes that this would be the worst time for him to return to the social media platform. 

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Alex Hanna Considers Impact of Twitter Takeover

Alex Hanna discusses how social media impacts our democracy; how Twitter has affected past U.S. elections; and how Musk’s most recent changes to the platform could affect the flow of disinformation moving forward.

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Coye Cheshire on BeReal and the Future of Social Media
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Do Period-Tracking Apps and Other Software Pose a Threat to Privacy and Freedom?

Richmond Wong, Ph.D. ’20, shares how period-tracking apps share users’ data.

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Hany Farid on Deepfakes, Lies, and Cheerleading
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I School Ph.D. Students Honored with NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Two I School Ph.D. students, Liza Gak and Seyi Olojo, have been offered the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. Ph.D. student Tonya Nguyen received an honorable mention.