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Semaan, Bryan

Associate Professor

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Research

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  • Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Social Computing, Social Justice, Race, Race and Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Design, Digital Identity, Resilience

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  • INFO 4620 - Race and Technology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023
    This course is designed with the understanding that race and racial inequality have been central to how societies and societal systems of power have been shaped and reshaped over time. Students will critically examine how race is created by and through sociotechnical systems. Students will explore how the design, implementation, and use of digital platforms and their data continue to perpetuate and embody white, cisgender, heteronormative systems of power. This course will cover a wide range of foundational and emergent scholarship�giving voice to Scholars of Color�providing students with a foundation through which they can continue to critique and explore sociotechnical and other societal arrangements more broadly. Degree credit not granted for this course and INFO 5620.
  • INFO 4871 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Special topics.
  • INFO 5620 - Race and Technology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023
    This course is designed with the understanding that race and racial inequality have been central to how societies and societal systems of power have been shaped and reshaped over time. Students will critically examine how race is created by and through sociotechnical systems. Students will explore how the design, implementation, and use of digital platforms and their data continue to perpetuate and embody white, cisgender, heteronormative systems of power. This course will cover a wide range of foundational and emergent scholarship�giving voice to Scholars of Color�providing students with a foundation through which they can continue to critique and explore sociotechnical and other societal arrangements more broadly. Degree credit not granted for this course and INFO 4620.
  • INFO 5871 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Topics will vary by semester.
  • INFO 6201 - Interdisciplinary Ways of Knowing
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Introduces principles of research design and surveys the breadth of research methods appropriated by the field of information science. Students will explore the diversity of epistemological orientations that make up the field, that influence the types of often mixed research methods applied and that shape the kinds of questions that are and are not explored.
  • INFO 6500 - Information Science Seminar
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
    Enculturates graduate students in the discipline of Information Science through weekly seminar series that hosts guest speakers, internal faculty and graduate speakers and other community building and professional development activities. May be repeated up to 8 credit hours.

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