Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler is a social computing researcher and legal scholar who joins CU Boulder from the Human-Centered Computing PhD program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Fiesler also holds a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Fiesler studies the role of law in socio-technical systems, with a focus on copyright in online creative communities. In addition to her appointment in the department, Fiesler will also be a Senior Fellow in the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.
Fiesler has interned for Creative Commons and sits on the legal committee of the Organization for Transformative Works. Her research has been recognized with awards and featured in The New York Times. She is also a published science fiction writer and occasional remixer. Her feminist remix of the book, Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer, was a subject of media attention, including NPR's All Things Considered.
Publications:
- Nathan Beard, Graeme Troxell, Casey Fiesler. 2018. 21st Century Digital Democracy Needs a New Contract. In Internet Politics and Policy Conference (IPP 2018). (Sept. 20-21, 2018 – Oxford, U.K.).
- Michael Skirpan, Nathan Beard, Srinjita Bhaduri, Casey Fiesler, and Tom Yeh. 2018. Ethics Education in Context: A Case Study of Novel Ethics Activities for the CS Classroom, In Proceedings of the SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE'18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 940-945. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159573 ( Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 21-24, 2018). Third Best Paper in the Track: Experience Reports and Tools.
- Katie Z. Gach, Casey Fiesler, and Jed R. Brubaker. 2017. “Control your emotions, Potter”: An Analysis of Grief Policing on Facebook in Response to Celebrity Death. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 47, 18 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134682 (December 2017).
- Casey Fiesler, Shannon Morrison, R. Benjamin Shapiro, and Amy S. Bruckman. 2017. Growing Their Own: Legitimate Peripheral Participation for Computational Learning in an Online Fandom Community. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ‘17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1375-1386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998210 (Portland, Oregon, February 25 - March 1, 2017).