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"I am a Professor (and one of the founding faculty) in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. I've been here for quite a while and, like most people who hang around long enough in academia, I have accumulated other titles along the way, such as Chancellor's Professor or Steckler Endowed Chair in Information and Computer Sciences or even Honorary Professorial Fellow in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. I direct the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology (CREATE)."

"My research draws from anthropology, STS (Science and Technology Studies), cultural studies, and other humanistic social sciences to examine the contexts in which digital practices emerge and evolve. Much of the work revolves around what we might call "data imaginaries" -- data and technologies not just as things in the world, but as objects that both live in and shape the cultural imagination. For instance, when people working in city government encounter a problem, how do they come to conceive of it as one to which data tools might be a solution? How do they map organizational needs onto current (or anticipated) data platforms, and vice versa, and what do they do if they don't quite fit? Or, what futures do people imagine when they conceive of new digital tools? How do they interest others in adopting them, and what happens if the tools are used in ways they didn't anticipate? What if someone must still use them twenty or thirty years later? The fundamental character of my work is captured in a wonderful phrase by historian Steven Shapin which I am delighted to steal here quite shamelessly: "Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority". What an idea, huh?"

"Theoretically, most of the work I draw upon emerges from a pragmatist tradition (symbolic interactionism, say, or practice theory) although there is a distinct whiff of early British cultural studies to it too, along with hefty pinches of organizational science, feminist epistemology, and decolonial critique. For my sins, I spent long enough hanging out with ethnomethodologists during my intellectually formative years that their way of thinking has a major influence on mine. You say mishmash, I say epistemic generosity."

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