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Voida, Amy

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  • Dr. Voida's research explores the role of information and communication technologies in supporting initiatives for the public good. This research takes nonprofit and other philanthropic work as its unit of analysis, and traces its influences and impacts across individual and collective action, across sectors, and across hybrid and dynamic organizational and institutional forms. It draws from research conducted across academic disciplines with a goal of supporting philanthropic work wherever it can be nurtured and provoked.

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  • Human-Centered Computing, Collaborative and Social Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Information Science, Philanthropic Informatics

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Teaching

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  • CMCI 1010 - Concepts and Creativity 1: Media, Communication, Information
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Engages key principles and practices in the fields of media, communication and information. Emphasizes the analyses of new and old media, information technologies, verbal and visual literacies, communicative interactions and cultural practices through process-based learning and hands-on projects utilizing multiple modes of expression. First course in two semester sequence required for all first-year CMCI students. Requires a grade of C- or better to count toward degree.
  • CMCI 1020 - Concepts and Creativity 2: Media, Communication, Information
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    Engages key principles and practices in the fields of media, communication and information. Emphasizes the analyses of new and old media, information technologies, verbal and visual literacies, communicative interactions and cultural practices through process-based learning and hands-on projects utilizing multiple modes of expression. Second course in two semester sequence required for all first-year CMCI students. Requires a grade of C- or better to count toward degree.
  • INFO 2131 - Information Ecosystems
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
    Introduces students to techniques for working with communities, organizations, and institutions in the transformative use of information. Develops students' ability to listen for (and mediate among) diverse, discordant voices and values. Employs qualitative research, design explorations, activities, and small group projects as students examine, navigate, and design for complex interactions across ecosystems.
  • INFO 4747 - Defamiliarizing Data: The Ethnography and Design of Making Data Strange
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2024
    Introduces students to the design and use of data in an unfamiliar, international context. Develops students� ethnographic and design skills for defamiliarizing data�seeing, characterizing, and designing for data in ways that render it as unfamiliar and strange in order to gain new perspectives and insights about those data and the contexts in which they are produced and consumed. This course includes international travel. Degree credit not granted for this course and INFO 5747.
  • INFO 4871 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
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