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Natalie Bazarova examines social-psychological and communication processes in social media and mobile interactions, with a particular interest in disclosure and privacy of personal information, wellbeing and mental health, personal relationships and family communication. At Cornell, she is the director of the Social Media Lab hosted by the Department of...

In Memoriam : Joe Halpern, ‘towering’ computer scientist and mentor, dies at 72 Joe Halpern was a professor of computer science. His research focused on the interface between game and decision theory and computer science, on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, and on causality. He also did work on security, (fault tolerant) distributed computing, and...

Malte Ziewitz studies the changing role of data-driven technologies in establishing, maintaining, and subverting social order. An ethnographer and STS scholar, his recent work looked at the lived experience of credit scoring subjects, the search engine optimization (SEO) industry, and attempts at algorithmic regulation.