William Frey

William R. Frey is a Joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Information and the School of Social Work. His research examines the relationship between technology and the social world, complicating how we think about digital contexts and artificial intelligence. William's interdisciplinary research aims to counteract techno-solutionist frames and artificial intelligence hype narratives, while studying how people understand, navigate, resist, and refuse artificial intelligence. He also works with digital communities to better understand the socio-technological harms they face and develop pathways and architectures for healthy relationships. His research can be found in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, Social Science Computer Review, Advances in Social Work, Data & Society, and elsewhere.

William's scholarship is informed by over 15 years of critical dialogical facilitation practice and his work aims to create connective tissue between research (conceptual, theoretical, and empirical) and spaces of practice and everyday life. He co-organizes the Critical Race and Intersectional Technology (CRIT) Collective—an intergenerational, intellectual, and creative community of care. William currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he serve as a Resident Tutor in Adams House at Harvard College with his wife, Kemeyawi, and their Italian Greyhound, Karl Marx.

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Pronouns

he/they

Areas of interest

critical technology studies, artificial intelligence, race and technology, social media, platform studies, participatory research methods

Education

Ph.D., School of Social work, Columbia University 
M.S.W., Community Organization, School of Social Work, University of Michigan 
B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan