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Kelley Cotter is an Assistant Professor and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence and the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State University. She received her Ph.D. in Information Media from Michigan State University, a Master’s in Library Information Science from Drexel University, and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Temple University. Her research focuses on how data-centric technologies shape social, cultural, and political life, and how individuals make sense of algorithms in their everyday experiences. Dr. Cotter's recent work emphasizes the need for critical algorithmic literacy as a means of engaging with platform governance. She has published works in notable journals and conferences, including New Media & Society and the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Currently, she is working on a book project under contract with Oxford University Press that conceptualizes the role of critical algorithmic literacy in fostering bottom-up governance.
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