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Mary L. Gray is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty appointment in the School of Informatics and Computing, and affiliations with Anthropology, Gender Studies and the Media School, at Indiana University. Mary’s research looks at how technology access, cultural identity, and everyday uses of media transform people’s lives. She is the author of In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth and co-editor of Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies a Choice Academic Title for 2016. Her book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, looked at how young people in the rural United States use media to negotiate their sexual and gender identities, local belonging, and connections to broader, imagined queer communities, winning awards from scholarly societies in Anthropology, Media Studies, and Sociology. Mary’s current project, a collaboration with computer scientist Siddharth Suri, combines ethnography, interviews, and survey data with large-scale platform transaction data to understand the impact of automation on the future of work through workers’ experiences of on-demand economies. Another thread of Mary’s work examines how ethics and research compliance processes produce norms of vulnerability and risk in human subjects research, particularly studies at the intersections of computer and social science. She has published research in major anthropology, computer science and media studies journals and sits on the editorial boards of Television and New Media, the International Journal of Communication, and Social Media + Society. Mary also writes for and has been covered by popular press venues, including the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, and Forbes Magazine.
Affiliation
- Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research
Associate Professor
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
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