Camille Butera

Camille Butera (she/her) is a third-year Information Science PhD student at CU Boulder, working with Jed Brubaker in the Identity Lab.

Broadly speaking, her research investigates the account (social media, digital services, email, multiple logins on a computer, etc) as a sociotechnical object and inescapable infrastructure that both shapes and becomes latched onto how we articulate ourselves. In doing that, she looks at their history, present practices of use, and future potentials for design.

Previously, she completed a B.A. in Sociology at Smith College and a MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her MSc thesis was overseen by Bernie Hogan and Victoria Nash. Her work at both institutions related to how affordances shape confession and identity disclosure in digital spaces.

Outside of her personal research, she has written about digital culture and games, with her writing featured in outlets like WIRED and The Verge.