Kelley Cotter

I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University.

My research examines the social and ethical implications of data-centric technologies, with a focus on how they shape and reinforce inequalities. My core work examines how people learn about, know, and imagine digital technologies, especially algorithms and AI. My forthcoming book explores critical algorithmic literacy as a pathway to bottom-up governance. Before earning my PhD, I worked as an academic librarian.

My book project on critical algorithmic literacy as a tool of bottom up governance is under contract with Oxford University Press.