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, ethics, law, and fan communities (occasionally all at the same time). [curriculum vitae]

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Here is a link to my research lab page! The Internet Rules Lab

If you’re looking for a giant spreadsheet of tech ethics curricula, here!
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For an overview of my tech ethics-related research, here!
For an overview of my fandom-related research, here!

NEWS

10.23.21 The ACM CSCW conference was 10/23-10/27, and there were a number of papers from our department published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, including including my cco-authored papers: “A Framework of Severity for Harmful Content Online” (led by Morgan Klaus Scheuerman), “Supporting Serendipity: Opportunities and Challenges for Human-AI Collaboration in Qualitative Analysis” (led by Aaron Jiang), and “More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter” (led by Shamika Klassen) , which was awarded an Honorable Mention and a Recognition for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion. I also chaired the SIGCHI Research Ethics panel at the conference.

10.20.21 I wrote a blog post about the return of Yik Yak and how it relates to social media’s current ethical challenges.

10.09.21 I spoke to Insider about a piece of viral content on TikTok.

10.04.21 I was on local news (FOX 31) talking about implications of the Facebook outage.

09.21.21 I was featured in a piece for O’Reilly Radar about social media ethics.

09.16.21 There is a profile of me in the Responsible Tech Guide created by All Tech is Human.

09.15.21 My collaborators and I from the PERVADE research ethics project, led by Katie Shilton, have a new paper out in Big Data & Society: Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research.

09.01.21 I was featured in this Nature piece: “What makes us tick: lab leaders describe their research philosophies”

08.27.21 Out now in PLOS One, “Understanding international perceptions of the severity of harmful content online” led by former PhD student Aaron Jiang.

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