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Fiesler, Casey Lynn

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Research

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  • Fiesler studies ethics and governance for technology, including research ethics, internet law, content policy, and ethics education.

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  • online communities, social norms, social computing, copyright, online behavior, fan communities, ethics, women in technology

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Teaching

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  • CSCI 4950 - Senior Thesis
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Spring 2022
    Provides an opportunity for senior computer science majors to conduct exploratory research in computer science as an option for the capstone requirement. Department enforced prerequisites: 35 hours of Computer Science coursework including Foundation courses, Upper-Division writing, CS GPA 3.0. Department consent required, contact academic advisor for details. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours.
  • INFO 1101 - Computation in Society
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
    Introduces students to modern information and communication technology, the basic principles of software and programming, the fundamental role of algorithms in modern society, computational reasoning, the major organizations in the information sector and fundamental interactions between humans and information technology. Appropriate for students with limited prior experience with computing. Fulfills the CMCI computing requirement.
  • INFO 3502 - Online Communities
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
    Explores practical and theoretical topics in online communities through inquiry into one or more particular online communities. Student projects will explore online communities as social and technical systems, including their alignment with conceptualizations of community, expressed and apparent interests, nature of membership and participation, history, participants' motivations for involvement, and explicit, implicit, and infrastructural features that enable and constrain behaviors. Degree credit not granted for this course and INFO 5502.
  • INFO 3506 - Investigations in Information Science: Online Fandom
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Explores and analyzes fan communities in a digital context. Through applied research, students will investigate online spaces devoted to participatory and remix culture, media fandom, and fan creation. This class will draw concepts and methods from fan studies, social computing, ethnography, data science, and sociology to drive project-based inquiry. Counts as Investigations in Information Science. Same as INFO 5506.
  • INFO 4601 - Ethical and Policy Dimensions of Information and Technology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
    Explores ethical and legal complexities of information and communication technology. By combining real-world inquiry with creative speculation, students will probe everyday ethical dilemmas they face as digital consumers, creators and coders, as well as relevant policy. Explores themes such as privacy, intellectual property, social justice, free speech, artificial intelligence, social media and ethical lessons from science fiction. Same as INFO 5601.
  • INFO 4900 - Research Experience in Information Science
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
    Provides research experience in information science. Students will contribute to the construction of new knowledge, helping to answer current research questions or to solve contemporary problems in the domain. Enrollment is by invitation and discretion of the advising faculty member.
  • INFO 5502 - Online Communities
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
    Explores practical and theoretical topics in online communities through inquiry into one or more particular online communities. Student projects will explore online communities as social and technical systems, including their alignment with conceptualizations of community, expressed and apparent interests, nature of membership and participation, history, participants' motivations for involvement, and explicit, implicit, and infrastructural features that enable and constrain behaviors. Degree credit not granted for this course and INFO 3502.
  • INFO 5506 - Investigations in Information Science: Online Fandom
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Explores and analyzes fan communities in a digital context. Through applied research, students will investigate online spaces devoted to participatory and remix culture, media fandom, and fan creation. This class will draw concepts and methods from fan studies, social computing, ethnography, data science, and sociology to drive project-based inquiry. Counts as Investigations in Information Science. Same as INFO 3506.
  • INFO 5601 - Ethical and Policy Dimensions of Information and Technology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
    Explores ethical and legal complexities of information and communication technology. By combining real-world inquiry with creative speculation, students will probe everyday ethical dilemmas they face as digital consumers, creators and coders, as well as relevant policy. Explores themes such as privacy, intellectual property, social justice, free speech, artificial intelligence, social media and ethical lessons from science fiction. Same as INFO 4601.
  • INFO 6500 - Information Science Seminar
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022
    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.
  • INFO 6940 - Supervised Master's Research Project
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
    Students enrolling in this course will conduct supervised research in Information Science under the supervision of one or more faculty advisors, to include preparation of academic literature reviews, laboratory or field experiments, surveys or interviews with technology stakeholders, interface or system design and development, system evaluation, or other examples of rigorous scholarship in the discipline of Information Science. Some research projects may be carried out in collaboration with other graduate students and faculty members. Although contribution to publishable scholarship (e.g., posters, demonstrations, conference papers, or journal articles) is one possible outcome of this educational experience, the student and his/her advisor(s) may agree to determine alternate mechanisms for assessing mastery of the academic research process, depending on the scope of work carried out as part of this experience, the publishability of the research, and the specific needs and career goals of the student.
  • INFO 7000 - Introduction to Doctoral Studies in Information Science
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Introduces students to practices associated with successful advancement in a doctoral program, rigorous scholarship in information science and more expert and early participation in their scholarly community of practice.

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