Casey Fiesler is an American

associate professor Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''. In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a position ...

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University o ...

who studies

technology policy There are several approaches to defining the substance and scope of technology policy. According to the American scientist and policy advisor Lewis M. Branscomb, technology policy concerns the "public means for nurturing those capabilities and op ...

internet law Information technology law (IT law), also known as information, communication and technology law (ICT law) or cyberlaw, concerns the juridical regulation of information technology, its possibilities and the consequences of its use, including comp ...

and policy, and

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Career

Fiesler graduated from

Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Established in 1885, it has the lar ...

with a PhD in

Human-Centered Computing Human-centered computing (HCC) studies the design, development, and deployment of mixed-initiative human-computer systems. It is emerged from the convergence of multiple disciplines that are concerned both with understanding human beings and w ...

and a JD from

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private university, private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provide ...

. While at Georgia Tech, Fiesler helped research into AO3, as a model of healthy online communities for women and other minorities. She is among the founding members of the CU Boulder Information Science Department. Fiesler is also known for her public communication work on

TikTok TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and Short-form content, short-form online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which may range in duration f ...

around algorithmic justice, social media platforms and their policies, and ethical considerations in technology. She has spoken about toxicity, parasocial interactions, and other topics, especially surrounding social media trends. Her TikToks have also covered IP and patent law in the context of social media and artificial intelligence. Fiesler received a grant in 2017 to research the ethics of social media studies, such as analyzing user's posts en masse without their permission (i.e. determining sexual orientation with facial recognition tools). She has also researched social media migration, such as when users moved from

LiveJournal LiveJournal (), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school ...

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. In 2014, Fiesler went viral by calling out the introduction of a Computer Engineer Barbie as misogynistic due to the accompanying story and suggested her own story. Fiesler went on to provide expertise to Barbie's company,

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, when creating new

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- focused Barbies. Fiesler has

Type 1 diabetes Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the body's immune system destroys pancreatic cells (beta cells). In healthy persons, beta cells produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone require ...

. She has advocated for and helped research in relation to technology and diabetes, especially around

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technology.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiesler, Casey American computer science educators Human–computer interaction researchers American TikTokers Women in computing Living people Georgia Tech alumni Vanderbilt University Law School alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women writers American writers with disabilities People with type 1 diabetes