Design, Technology, and Society

PROGRAMS | PHD PROGRAM | RESEARCH AREAS

Students in the Design, Technology, and Society Area investigate the interrelationship between information technology and social, political, and cultural processes and values.

This includes both the analysis of the larger consequences of informatics systems and the criticism, design, and re-design of systems to address public needs and problems. Research may involve design processes, human communication and interaction, the larger contexts of these systems (such as the legal, economic, cultural, educational, or other contexts) and the repercussions of any of these topics.

This program area supports students interested in pursuing informatics research from the intellectual traditions and methods of either the social sciences or the humanities, as well as the domains of community informatics and social informatics.

People

Area LeadsFaculty AffiliatesPhD Students

Name	Email	Department
Karrie Karahalios	kkarahal@illinois.edu	Computer Science

Name	Email	Department
Roy Campbell	rhc@illinois.edu
Patrick Vargas	pvargas@illinois.edu	Advertising
Lulu Rodriguez	lulurod@illinois.edu	Agricultural Communications
Aaron Brakke	aaron@illinois.edu	Architecture
Thérèse Tierney	tierney@illinois.edu	Architecture
Ben Grosser	grosser@illinois.edu	Art & Design
M. Scott Poole	mspoole@illinois.edu	Communications
Adam Bates	batesa@illinois.edu	Computer Science
Alex Kirlik	kirlik@illinois.edu	Computer Science
Karrie Karahalios	kkarahal@illinois.edu	Computer Science
Tao Xie	taoxie@illinois.edu	Computer Science
Emma Mercier	mercier@illinois.edu	Curriculum & Instruction
Mark Dressman	mdressma@illinois.edu	Curriculum & Instruction
Michael Tissenbaum	miketiss@illinois.edu	Curriculum & Instruction
Robb Lindgren	robblind@illinois.edu	Curriculum & Instruction
Nathan Castillo	nathanc@illinois.edu	Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
Cynthia D'Angelo	cdangelo@illinois.edu	Educational Psychology
Dan Morrow	dgm@illinois.edu	Educational Psychology
Spencer Schaffner	spencers@illinois.edu	English
Mei-Po Kwan	mkwan@illinois.edu	Geography
Eric Benson	ebenson@illinois.edu	Graphic Design
Lisa Mercer	lemercer@illinois.edu	Graphic Design
John Randolph	jwr@illinois.edu	History
Bonnie Mak	bmak@illinois.edu	iSchool
Carol Tilley	ctilley@illinois.edu	iSchool
Catherine Blake	clblake@illinois.edu	iSchool
Jana Diesner	jdiesner@illinois.edu	iSchool
Jerome McDonough	jmcdonou@illinois.edu	iSchool
Jodi Schneider	jodi@illinois.edu	iSchool
Kate McDowell	kmcdowel@illinois.edu	iSchool
Kate Williams	katewill@illinois.edu	iSchool
Kathryn LaBarre	klabarre@illinois.edu	iSchool
Linda Smith	lcsmith@illinois.edu	iSchool
Lori Kendall	loriken@illinois.edu	iSchool
Michael Twidale	twidale@illinois.edu	iSchool
Nicole Cooke	nacooke@illinois.edu	iSchool
Peter Darch	ptdarch@illinois.edu	iSchool
Terry Weech	weech@illinois.edu	iSchool
Citlali Lopez-Ortiz	lopezort@illinois.edu	Kinesiology & Community Health
Wendy Rogers	wendyr@illinois.edu	Kinesiology & Community Health
Arden Rowell	karowell@illinois.edu	Law
Jay Kesan	kesan@illinois.edu	Law
Anita Chan	achan@illinois.edu	Media & Cinema Studies
Kevin Hamilton	kham@illinois.edu	New Media
Ryan Griffis	ryan.griffis@gmail.com	New Media
Zahra Mohaghegh	zahra13@illinois.edu	Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Scott Althaus	salthaus@illinois.edu	Political Science
Judith Pintar	jpintar@illinois.edu	Slavic Languages
Bev Wilson	bevwilso@illinois.edu	Urban & Regional Planning
Stacy Harwood	sharwood@illinois.edu	Urban & Regional Planning

Name	Email	Area
John Bambenek	bambenek@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Priscilla Boff Ferronato	pf4@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Eugene Cox	emcox3@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Juan De La Rosa	juanad2@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Daniela Delgado Ramos	dd6@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Gerry Derksen	gderksen@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Alvarez Dixon	alvarezd@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Claudia Grisales	clg3@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Ryan Ingebritsen	ingebrit@illinois.edu	Art and Cultural Informatics Design, Technology and Society
Alexis Kim	ankim2@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Susan Liepert	liepert@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Monica Porteanu	monicap2@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Cliff Shin	thecliff@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Yaguang Sun	yaguang2@illinois.edu	Design, Technology and Society
Sam Walkow	swalkow2@illinois.edu	Data Analytics and Information Visualization Design, Technology and Society

Courses

Application CoursesFoundation Courses

Number	Title	Notes
CMN 529 CS	Communication Technologies
CMN 529 SP	Theory and Research on Collaboration Technologies
EPSY 590	Advanced Seminar in Ed Psyc	Course name depends on section.
INFO 555	Adv Educational Tech for Engagement & Interactive Learning
IS 518	Community Informatics
IS 549	The Economics of Information
IS 555	Usability Engineering
IS 590 C1/C2	Community Informatics Research and Theory
IS 590 CMC	Computer Mediated Communication
IS 590 CWC	Computer Supported Cooperative Work
IS 590 DH	Digital Humanities
IS 590 DK	Distributed Knowledge
IS 590 EL	E-Learning: Social and Technical Issues in E-learning
IS 590 SD	Digital Social Sciences
MDIA 590	New Media Theory

Number	Title	Notes
CMN 529 MS	Social Network Analysis
CS 598 KGK	Social Computing
IS 542	Data, Stat and Info
IS 590 DEL	Design of Digitally Mediated Information Services
IS 590 IML	Information Modeling
IS 590 IN	Information Networks
IS 590 IS	Information in Society
IS 590 MD	Metadata in Theory and Practice
IS 590 OI	Organizations, Information & Technology
IS 590 SN	Social Networks and Information
PS 519 SA	Content Analysis