Dr. Brubaker conducts research in social computing, social media, and technology studies where he studies how identity is designed, represented and experienced in socio-technical systems. A large focus of his existing work is on technology and mortality, “digital afterlives”, online bereavement, and how to improve how technology is designed to account for mortality. The second major focus is on the representation of marginalized populations within technology and data, notably LGBTQ and racial minorities.
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digital identity, technology and mortality, post-mortem data and interaction, social computing, social media, human-computer interaction, HCI, computer supported cooperative work, CSCW, infrastructure studies, science and technology studies, STS, computational representation, socio-technical systems
