Paul Dourish

I am a Professor (and one of the founding faculty) in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. I've been here for quite a while and, like most people who hang around long enough in academia, I have accumulated other titles along the way, such as Chancellor's Professor or Steckler Endowed Chair in Information and Computer Sciences or even Honorary Professorial Fellow in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. I direct the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology (CREATE). My research draws from anthropology, STS (Science and Technology Studies), cultural studies, and other humanistic social sciences to examine the contexts in which digital practices emerge and evolve. Much of the work revolves around what we might call "data imaginaries" -- data and technologies not just as things in the world, but as objects that both live in and shape the cultural imagination. For instance, when people working in city government encounter a probl

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