Kelley Cotter

Assistant Professor
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Faculty Affiliate, Social Science Research Institute

E397G Westgate Building
288 Burrowes Road
University Park, PA 16802

Email kcotter@psu.edu
Phone 814-863-6317
Pronouns she, her, hers

Areas of Expertise

Critical Algorithm Studies
Critical Data Studies
Digital Literacy
Algorithmic Literacy
Platform Governance
Science and Technology Studies
Social Media
Digital Culture

Education

Ph.D., Information and Media, Michigan State University
M.L.I.S., Library and Information Sciences, Drexel University
B.A., English, Temple University

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Kelley Cotter, Ph.D.

Kelley Cotter is an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. 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).

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International Journal of Communication

Kelley Cotter to present at DE&I In Tech Summit

Kelley Cotter

Areas of Expertise

Education

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