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Assistant Professor • Founding Faculty
Information Science

Assistant ProfessorÌýCasey FieslerÌýis a social computing researcher and legal scholar who joins ²ÊÃñ±¦µä from the Human-Centered Computing PhD program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Fiesler also holds a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Fiesler studies the role of law in socio-technical systems, with a focus on copyright in online creative communities. In addition to her appointment in the department, Fiesler will also be a Senior Fellow in the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.

Fiesler has interned for Creative Commons and sits on the legal committee of the Organization for Transformative Works. Her research has been recognized with awards and featured in The New York Times. She is also a published science fiction writer and occasional remixer. Her feminist remix of the book,ÌýBarbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer,Ìýwas a subject of media attention, including NPR'sÌýAll Things Considered.

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Publications:

  • Nathan Beard,ÌýGraeme Troxell,ÌýCasey Fiesler. 2018.ÌýÌý21st Century Digital Democracy Needs a New Contract. In Internet Politics and Policy Conference (IPP 2018). (Sept. 20-21, 2018 – Oxford, U.K.).
  • Michael Skirpan, Nathan Beard, Srinjita Bhaduri, Casey Fiesler, and Tom Yeh.Ìý2018.ÌýÌý,ÌýInÌýProceedings of the SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education ().ÌýACM, New York, NY, USA, 940-945. DOI: ( Baltimore, Maryland, Feb.Ìý21-24, 2018).ÌýThird Best Paper in theÌýTrack:ÌýExperience Reports and Tools.
  • Katie Z. Gach,ÌýCasey Fiesler, andÌýJed R. Brubaker. 2017.Ìý. Proc.ÌýACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 47, 18 pages. DOI:ÌýÌý(December 2017).
  • Casey Fiesler, Shannon Morrison,ÌýR. Benjamin Shapiro, and Amy S. Bruckman. 2017.Ìý. InÌýProceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingÌý(CSCW ‘17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1375-1386. DOI:ÌýÌý(Portland, Oregon, February 25 - March 1, 2017).

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