Christena Nippert-Eng
Director of Computing, Culture and Society
cnippert@indiana.edu
Informatics West 223
Christena Nippert-Eng is a sociologist and Professor of Informatics at IUB. Her scholarly interests include cognition, culture, gender, privacy, time, space, everyday life, ethnography, user-centered design and, most recently, the social behavior of nonhuman animals, especially the rest of the great apes.
Allison Fish
Assistant Professor
School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
allifish@indiana.edu
Informatics West 301
Three questions that have directed much of my recent work are: What are the cultural logics, legal forms, and technological infrastructures that guide information management practices? How are law and technology used to mediate access? How is accessibility being framed as a fundamental human right and critical pathway to social enfranchisement? At this time I am completing publication projects and conducting follow up research on two ethnographic projects. What ties both of these projects together is my commitment to understanding how people go about sharing socially-charged information/knowledge with one another.