Kelley Cotter is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. She received 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 explores how data-centric technologies shape social, cultural, and political life, and vice versa. Her most recent work focuses on how people learn about and make sense of algorithms, and how such insight may be mobilized in efforts to govern platforms. 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).