research overview
- Bryan utilizes his training from HCI, CSCW, and social computing, to examine the role of technology in enabling resilience amongst people immersed in challenging contexts (e.g. people’s experiences with racism and stereotyping and refugees integrating into new sociocultural contexts). Resilience is defined as how people bounce back from threat or vulnerability. He seeks out contexts where he can explore the relationship between technology and resilience and that allow him to better understand how people actively use ICTs in the production of resilience. He especially focuses on those contexts where people might be unable to generate resilience with ICTs, or where the present design of ICTs and other social systems can produce additional threat or vulnerability in people’s lives (e.g. algorithms, facial recognition software, governance, and social media). Broadly, he seeks to understand, critique, and create ethical, moral, and just technology.
