Christopher Bopp studies how social service organizations use data and information systems to evaluate and improve their programs. Over the last 10 years, he has consulted for a variety of organizations in the areas of data science, IT engineering and information security. He has conducted research around the diffusion of information through social media during natural disasters with Project EPIC and was a Data Science for Social Good fellow at the University of Chicago. Bopp received a Bachelor of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Science from the ATLAS Institute in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD). His advisor, Amy Voida, is on the faculty of the Department of Information Science.
For more information about Chris, visit his website. Alumni pages are not always updated after graduation.
Publications:
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Chris Bopp, Lehn M. Benjamin, and Amy Voida. 2019. The Coerciveness of the Primary Key: Infrastructure Problems in Human Services Work. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW, Article 51 (November 2019), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359153 To appear (Austin, Texas - November 9-13, 2019).
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Lehn M. Benjamin, Amy Voida, and Chris Bopp. 2018. Policy fields, data systems, and the performance of nonprofit human service organizations. In Journal of Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, Vol. 0, Iss. 0, 2018, 1-20, Taylor & Francis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2017.1422072 (Jan. 25, 2018).
- Chris Bopp, Ellie Harmon, and Amy Voida. 2017. Disempowered by Data: Nonprofits, Social Enterprises, and the Consequences of Data-Driven Work. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3608-3619. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025694 (Denver, Colorado, May 6-11, 2017).
- Ellie Harmon, Chris Bopp, and Amy Voida. 2017. The Design Fictions of Philanthropic IT: Stuck Between an Imperfect Present and an Impossible Future. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7015-7028. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025650 (Denver, Colorado, May 6-11, 2017).
- Emily Porter, Chris Bopp, Elizabeth Gerber, and Amy Voida. 2017. Reappropriating Hackathons: The Production Work of the CHI4Good Day of Service. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 810-814. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025637 (Denver, Colorado, May 6-11, 2017).