AREAS OF RESEARCH
Technology, Ethics & Social Policy
SP2’s research expertise in this area is centered on the sociopolitical and ethical challenges that technology, the tech sector, and the social application of automated and algorithmic systems pose to social policy.
Featured Centers
Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational & Mixed Methodologies
FEATURED FACULTY
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
Professor; PhD, University of Chicago, 2012. Activism & social justice; qualitative methods; youth; gun violence; big data; digital culture; public health; race & ethnicity; social media.
FEATURED FACULTY
Ezekiel Dixon-Román, PhD
Associate Professor; PhD, Fordham University. Cultural studies of quantification; philosophy of science; cultural studies of education; critical policy studies; critical theories of “difference.”
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