Kelley Cotter

Kelley Cotter is an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and holds a courtesy appointment in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.

She earned her Ph.D. in information and media from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in library and information science from Drexel University. Her research examines the social and ethical implications of data-centric technologies, with a focus on how they shape and reinforce inequalities. Her core work examines how people learn about, know and imagine digital technologies, especially algorithms and AI. Her book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, conceptualizes critical algorithmic literacy and its role as a tool of bottom-up governance.

Dr. Cotter’s work has been published in New Media & Society; Information, Communication & Society; and the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).