Casey Fiesler
#academia #internet #law #feminism #geek
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
11.03.18 CSCW in Jersey City, NJ
11.16.18 CMU in Pittsburgh, PA
NEWS
11.08.18 We had a PI meeting for PERVADE, held at Data & Society in NYC!
11.03.18 At CSCW 2018 (in addition to being in charge of communications, so doing most of the official tweeting!), I participated in a workshop on researching stigmatized populations, and on panels about online fandom research and research ethics. Awesome students also presented work that I co-authored: “The Perfect One”: Understanding Communication Practices and Challenges with Animated GIFs, “Control your emotions, Potter: ” An Analysis of Grief Policing on Facebook in Response to Celebrity Death, and Vulnerable and Online: Fandom’s Case for Stronger Privacy Norms and Tools.
10.15.18 I published a piece (reprinted in How We Get To Next) about teaching technology ethics with creative speculation and science fiction.
10.15.18 I attended an invited workshop held at Harvard on the topic of computer science ethics education.
10.12.18 I presented work at AoIR in the “games and fandom” session about fandom community migration, and helped organize a fishbowl conversation about teaching ethics.
09.29.18 PhD student Brianna Dym is presenting work at Queer Games Con today, including our paper upcoming in Game Studies: “‘theyre all trans sharon’: Authoring Gender in Video Game Fan Fiction.”
09.24.18 I wrote some advice for academic job hunting!
09.23.13 Recently graduated ATLAS MS student Nate Beard presented some of our work about Terms of Service at the Internet, Policy, and Politics conference at the Oxford Internet Institute: “21st Century Digital Democracy Needs a New Contract”
09.15.18 I have two essays in the recent “future of fandom” special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: (1) a design fiction about the past and future of fandom platforms; and (2) a piece lead-authored by PhD student Brianna Dym about privacy norms and generational differences in fandom
09.04.18 I attended the kick-off of the 18/19 AY for the Berkman Klein Center, which I’m really excited to be a part of!
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!
