The Liminal Experience of Crisis: Facing Suspended Animation in the Era of COVID-19

To be in crisis is to be betwixt and between.

In times of crisis, we often feel betwixt and between. Anthropologists have talked…

What do we teach when we teach tech & AI ethics?

How We’ve Taught Algorithms to See Identity

Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial…

DMCA anti-circumvention and the policy problem in HCI

Risk Communication is a Risky Business: The Importance of Communicating Timelines during Periods of Suspended Animation

I conduct research in the area of crisis informatics. Public health pandemics are different enough from my primary domain for…

Turning Junk Into Gold: Rapid Prototyping Activities You Can Do in 30 minutes

Is “Panic Buying” a Myth?

The coverage of people’s shopping behaviors as the novel coronavirus made its way onto the world’s stage has been extensive. Photos of…

First Rule of Fandom: Don’t Talk About Fandom

The first rule of fandom is that we don’t talk about fandom, not to people who…

Faking Out the Invisible Threat

“I am not the coronavirus!,” a frustrated me said too loudly to my also frustrated teens in the early days of voluntary quarantining, before restrictions were more commonplace in the US — so, you know, just a mere 5 days ago. Our son had just come home from college when his…