Casey Fiesler is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Armed with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School, she primarily researches social computing, law, ethics, and fan communities (occasionally all at the same time). [curriculum vitae]

If you’re looking for a giant spreadsheet of tech ethics curricula, here!
If you’re looking for my Computer Engineer Barbie remix, here!

UPCOMING TRAVEL

09.04.18 Berkman Klein Center event in Boston, MA
10.13.18 AOIR in Montreal, Canada
10.15.18 Ethics education workshop in Boston, MA
11.03.18 CSCW in Jersey City, NJ

NEWS

08.29.18 In writing about online interactions following the death of John McCain, The Washington Post covered research I co-authored with Katie Gach and Jed Brubaker about grief policing on social media.

08.28.18 I updated and combined my previous blog posts about ACM copyright licenses: “ACM Copyright Licenses: Which should you choose, and how do you handle third-party material?”

08.28.18 I wrote a blog post for CSforALL about Barbie’s journey through computing: “Tech Barbie’s Backstory: How she went from “math is hard” to robotics engineer”

08.27.18 It’s a new semester, and I’m teaching a brand new research-based class on the topic of online fandom!

08.17.18 Super excited about a new project that is funded by the National Science Foundation! I’ll be working with three other faculty members in our department to develop computational tools to help scale inductive, qualitative methods.

07.30.18 I did a bit of a press tour in talking about the evolution of Barbie in STEM careers! You can see me on several different news broadcasts, and also listen to me on Colorado Public Radio!

07.25.18  I’m quoted in a Wired article about the ethics of Dropbox providing data to researchers.

07.22.18  The Daily Camera interviewed me, and has a really nice write-up of my history and consulting work with STEM Barbies.

07.20.18  I’m super excited that I’ll be a faculty associate with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society for 2018/2019!

07.10.18 I think a lot about things like imposter syndrome and how to help myself and others (especially junior researchers!) feel better about themselves and their work – so I wrote some Mister Rogers fanfiction that doubles as advice for PhD students.

07.05.18 The spreadsheet of tech ethics curricula I made back in November has exploded, so I blogged some context and background about it – it’s continuing to grow!

06.29.18 We had a PI meeting for PERVADE preceding the Sociotech Future Symposium at University of Michigan where I gave a short talk on ecosystems of governance and reconnected with an amazing scholarly community.

06.26.18 Last year I did some consulting work with Mattel on a computational thinking book, which was released along with Robotics Engineer Barbie. The book is called Code Camp with Barbie and Friends, and I wrote the forward to it.

[News Archive]

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