The results are in! The Society + Technology at UW initiative review survey reached a 59% response rate! Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond. A summary report will be shared soon and every response was read.
As promised, when we reached over 50% participation rate, all members of the Society + Technology at UW listserv were entered into a random drawing for two books: The AI Con by Emily Bender (Linguistics, UW Seattle) and Alex Hanna, and Law or Technology: A Methodological Approach by Ryan Calo (Law and Information, UW Seattle).
Well, drumroll, please, the lucky winners are:
Annuska Zolyomi (Computing and Software Systems, UW Bothell)
Annuska Zolyomi is an assistant professor in the School of STEM in the Department of Computing and Software Systems at UW Bothell, where she brings an inclusive lens to human-computer interaction and software engineering pedagogy. She teaches courses on usability, accessibility, and co-design, and her research focuses on the experiences of users who identify as blind or low-vision, neurodivergent, autistic, and more. Read her work to discover why in 2016, users gave up on Twitter before it became X (clue: it wasn’t to signal disagreement with the online politics, but something else entirely). Learn more here: https://faculty.washington.edu/annuska/
Martin Saveski (Information, UW Seattle)
Martin Saveski is an assistant professor in the Information School at UW Seattle. His work develops tools for analyzing large-scale social data to better understand online social structures and behaviors, while also shaping the design of digital systems. One of his papers that I’ve read explores how social media platforms reward certain human values—personal agency, stimulation—and then proposes how it might be redesigned to support other values. Who decides on which values are important? And how can such values be known and changed? You can read more here: https://faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/
Annuska and Martin, please get in touch to claim your books!
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