Frances Corry

Frances Corry https://francescorry.net Frances Corry Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:19:06 +0000 https://francescorry.net en Nav https://francescorry.net/Nav Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:26:14 +0000 Frances Corry https://francescorry.net/Nav <img width="768" height="762" width_o="768" height_o="762" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d80e04a427c037773ccdc677469b28a4d0fb10a0bc8fc32662edf5c28677cc77/Screenshot-2026-08-19-at-6.30.34PM.png" data-mid="251408140" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/d80e04a427c037773ccdc677469b28a4d0fb10a0bc8fc32662edf5c28677cc77/Screenshot-2026-08-19-at-6.30.34PM.png" /> About Research Teaching CV About https://francescorry.net/About-5 Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:32:05 +0000 Frances Corry https://francescorry.net/About-5 <img width="1500" height="1441" width_o="1500" height_o="1441" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dc0b0ae82158b22c7fd0123272ff51761ce01b88dd0928df8581b7f90b3a79f/headshot-sq.jpg" data-mid="197085436" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dc0b0ae82158b22c7fd0123272ff51761ce01b88dd0928df8581b7f90b3a79f/headshot-sq.jpg" /> About I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Culture & Data Stewardship at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center on Digital Culture and Society. I earned my PhD in Communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. My work employs critical-historical approaches to digital media, examining the prehistories and afterlives of data-intensive systems – from social media platforms to AI systems. My book project investigates the process of social media platform closure to argue that systems like platforms shape social life and the cultural record even after they are presumed to be dead. My research has been published in outlets including New Media & Society, Social Media & Society, FAccT, Convergence, Feminist Media Studies, the International Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. (Many of these are open access, but please email for PDFs if not!) I’ve been drawn on as an expert at the intersection of technology and society for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, VICE, and the Los Angeles Times.I’ve collaborated with institutions on research projects or research-based creative work, including fellowships from Harvard University's Library Innovation Lab, the ACM History Committee, and the USC Center for Science, Technology, and Public Life. I've also worked with computing institutions on their oral history collections (including the Computer History Museum and the A.M. Turing Awards), and serve on the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. ︎ francescorry@pitt.edu Research https://francescorry.net/Research-1 Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:56:15 +0000 Frances Corry https://francescorry.net/Research-1 Research My scholarship aims to expand the temporal horizon brought to the analysis of digital technologies, examining contemporary technological phenomena through a critical and longitudinal lens. My research is in conversation with information studies, communication, and the field of science, technology and society, while incorporating a variety of methods, including interviews, archival research, participant observation, network analysis, and critical/cultural analysis.  My current projects fall under three areas: ︎︎︎ Digital technologies over time Topics like digital data storage and preservation, along with social and cultural theories of technological novelty and obsolescence.︎︎︎ Social Media’s Midlife Crisis? How Public Discourse Imagines Platform Futures. Social Media & Society.︎︎︎ The production of destruction: How employee values shape platform afterlives. New Media & Society. ︎︎︎  Never forget? Memory maintenance on an aging platform. Convergence. ︎︎︎ Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end. Internet Histories. ︎︎︎ Op-Ed: Yahoo! Answers is shutting down and taking a record of my teenage self with it. LA Times. ︎︎︎ Screenshot, save, share, shame: Making sense of new media through screenshots and public shame. First Monday. ︎︎︎ Historical approaches to digital media Historicizing contemporary digital media forms and practices, often to explore the ways that forms of power persist in what are otherwise considered ‘new’ media technologies. ︎︎︎ The sociotechnical imaginaries of 1968. International Journal of Communication. ︎︎︎ “LADY U SEND ME YR MOVIE:” Constructing Joanie 4 Jackie’s feminist distribution network. Feminist Media Studies.︎︎︎ Capture it while you can: Revisiting SIGCOMM 99’s ‘Technical History of the Internet’. Computer Communication Review. ︎︎︎ Big data environments and epistemology How the storage, collection, combination and analysis of large datasets reflects and shapes ways of knowing. ︎︎︎ Intersectionality, In Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data.  ︎︎︎ A Framework for dataset deprecation: Standardizing documentation, identification, and communications. ACM FAccT. Teaching https://francescorry.net/Teaching-1 Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:19:06 +0000 Frances Corry https://francescorry.net/Teaching-1 <img width="832" height="1074" width_o="832" height_o="1074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18f2be11c84c220d669ebfb24aca92db8b13bd69057a991846e63ad42ba9b5f8/Screen-Shot-2021-07-22-at-4.05.40-PM.png" data-mid="197088328" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/832/i/18f2be11c84c220d669ebfb24aca92db8b13bd69057a991846e63ad42ba9b5f8/Screen-Shot-2021-07-22-at-4.05.40-PM.png" /> <img width="1420" height="1782" width_o="1420" height_o="1782" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/650d29fd2fd42110df15f28089ed945faad586915a84584e462b8cee1acc868d/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-3.29.31PM.png" data-mid="197088652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/650d29fd2fd42110df15f28089ed945faad586915a84584e462b8cee1acc868d/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-3.29.31PM.png" /> <img width="948" height="1226" width_o="948" height_o="1226" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0af945a3f0155ecb737156105773e0bd43e072485701e3771aa3e2512d22675/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-3.27.53PM.png" data-mid="197088599" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/948/i/e0af945a3f0155ecb737156105773e0bd43e072485701e3771aa3e2512d22675/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-3.27.53PM.png" /> Teaching I’ve had the pleasure of teaching undergraduate, masters, and PhD students in a range of courses at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Southern California. Please email me if you’d like to see a syllabus for any of the following:  ︎︎︎ University of Pittsburgh Collecting and Events: Contemporaneous and Rapid Response ArchivesDigital Humanities Critical Information Studies: Emerging Topics ︎︎︎ University of Southern California Public Speaking The Cultures of New Media