Assistant Professor听Jed Brubaker听conducts research in social informatics, social media and infrastructure studies. He studies how identity is designed, represented and experienced in socio-technical systems. Brubaker joins 蜜糖直播 from the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine where his doctoral research focused on our digital afterlives, interactions with post-mortem data and how to improve the management of accounts and personal data after we die. 听His work has received numerous awards, received international media attention and directly informed the design and development of Facebook鈥檚 Legacy Contact.
Brubaker is the Robert Kling Fellow, William Hulings ARCS Scholar,听and was named University of California, Irvine鈥檚 Most Promising Future Faculty Member for 2013. He is a member of the Intel Science & Technology Center for Social Computing, Facebook Compassion Research and Microsoft鈥檚 Social Media Collective. He interned with Microsoft Research and is an academic partner at Facebook.
Publications
Katie Z. Gach听and Jed R. Brubaker. 2020. Experiences of Trust in Postmortem Profile Management. ACM Trans. Soc. Comput. 3, 1: Article 2.听
Katie Z. Gach,听Casey Fiesler, and听Jed R. Brubaker. 2017.听. Proc.听ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 47, 18 pages.
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