Roderic Crooks

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Written By Selly Djap

Assistant Professor, Informatics

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Roderic Crooks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. His research examines how the use of digital technology by public institutions contributes to the minoritization of working-class communities of color. His current project explores how community organizers in working-class communities of color use data for activist projects, even as they dispute the proliferation of data-intensive technologies in education, law enforcement, financial services, and other vital sites of public life. He has published extensively in human-computer interaction (HCI), science and technology studies (STS), and social science venues on topics including political theories of online participation, equity of access, and document theory.

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"For Me, Data is Ammunition": Metaphors and Community Organizers' Data Imaginaries
Public Scholarship
"For Me, Data is Ammunition": Metaphors and Community Organizers' Data Imaginaries
Public Scholarship

Lucy Pei, Uriel Serrano, Roderic Crooks

Nov 2024 • Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 376-381

Public Scholarship
The Carceral State: Implications for Information and Technology Research and Practice
Public Scholarship
The Carceral State: Implications for Information and Technology Research and Practice
Public Scholarship

Samuel Hultman, Arian Salimy, Uriel Serrano, Roderic Crooks

Oct 2024 • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 61(1), 943-946

Public Scholarship
People’s practices in the face of data power
Peer-reviewed
People’s practices in the face of data power
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks, Catherine D’Ignazio, Arne Hintz, Fieke Jansen, Juliane Jarke, Anne Kaun, Stine Lomborg, Dan McQuillan, Jonathan A Obar, Lucy Pei, Ana Pop Stefanija

Sep 2024 • Dialogues in Data Power, 80-102 • Bristol University Press

Peer-reviewed
Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality
Book or Chapter
Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality
Book or Chapter

Roderic Crooks

Aug 2024 • University of California Press

Book or Chapter
Cultural Studies and AIDS Activists' Archives: Considering Cifor's Viral Cultures
Peer-reviewed
Cultural Studies and AIDS Activists' Archives: Considering Cifor's Viral Cultures
Peer-reviewed

Stephen Molldrem, Roderic Crooks

Dec 2023 • Feminist Formations 35(3), 195-204 • Johns Hopkins University Press

Peer-reviewed
The Opportunity Cost: Using a Narrative Approach to Reframe Pro-equity Urban Informatics
Public Scholarship
The Opportunity Cost: Using a Narrative Approach to Reframe Pro-equity Urban Informatics
Public Scholarship

Andrew Hamann, Roderic Crooks

Oct 2023 • Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 91-95

Public Scholarship
Grassroots Data Activism
Peer-reviewed
Grassroots Data Activism
Peer-reviewed

Lucy Pei, Roderic Crooks

Jun 2023 • JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 62(4), 188-192 • Michigan Publishing

Peer-reviewed
Seeking liberation: Surveillance, datafication, and race
Peer-reviewed
Seeking liberation: Surveillance, datafication, and race
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks

Dec 2022 • Surveillance & Society 20(4)

Peer-reviewed
Accesso Libre
Peer-reviewed
Accesso Libre
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks

Dec 2022 • Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 2(1)

Peer-reviewed
Science, technology, and society studies
Peer-reviewed
Science, technology, and society studies
Peer-reviewed

Pablo Boczkowski, Roderic Crooks, Leah Lievrouw, Ignacio Siles

Dec 2022 • The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy

Peer-reviewed
The Rainbow Flag and the Green Carnation: Grindr in The Gay Village
Public Scholarship
The Rainbow Flag and the Green Carnation: Grindr in The Gay Village
Public Scholarship

Roderic Crooks

Dec 2022 • First Monday 18(11)

Public Scholarship
Narrativity, Audience, Legitimacy: Data Practices of Community Organizers
Public Scholarship
Narrativity, Audience, Legitimacy: Data Practices of Community Organizers
Public Scholarship

Lucy Pei, Benedict Salazar Olgado, Roderic Crooks

Apr 2022 • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, 1-6

Public Scholarship
Toward people’s community control of technology: Race, access, and education
Research Report
Toward people’s community control of technology: Race, access, and education
Research Report

Roderic Crooks

Jan 2022 • Just Tech

Research Report
Instructor facilitation mediates students’ negative perceptions of active learning instruction
Peer-reviewed
Instructor facilitation mediates students’ negative perceptions of active learning instruction
Peer-reviewed

Elizabeth Park, Ashley Harlow, Amir AghaKouchak, Brigette Baldi, Nancy Burley, Natascha Buswell, Roderic Crooks, Darren Denenberg, Peter Ditto, Kimberley Edwards, Mariana Garcia Junqueira, Andrew Geragotelis, Amanda Holton, Joel Lanning, Rachel Lehman, Audrey Chen, Alessandra Pantano, Jenny Rinehart, Mark Walter, Adrienne Williams, Jennifer Wong-Ma, Michael Yassa, Brian Sato

Dec 2021 • PloS one 16(12), e0261706

Peer-reviewed
Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices
Peer-reviewed
Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks, Morgan Currie

Aug 2021 • The Information Society 37(4), 201-213 • Routledge

Peer-reviewed
Productive myopia: Racialized organizations and edtech
Peer-reviewed
Productive myopia: Racialized organizations and edtech
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks

Jul 2021 • Big Data & Society 8(2), 20539517211050499 • SAGE Publications

Peer-reviewed
Market, testbed, backroom: The redacted internet of facebook’s discover
Public Scholarship
Market, testbed, backroom: The redacted internet of facebook’s discover
Public Scholarship

Lucy Pei, Benedict Salazar Olgado, Roderic Crooks

May 2021 • Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-13

Public Scholarship
Getting Ourselves Together: Data-centered participatory design research & epistemic burden
Public Scholarship
Getting Ourselves Together: Data-centered participatory design research & epistemic burden
Public Scholarship

Jennifer Pierre, Roderic Crooks, Morgan Currie, Britt Paris, Irene Pasquetto

May 2021 • Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-11

Public Scholarship
Attenuated access: Accounting for startup, maintenance, and affective costs in resource-constrained communities
Public Scholarship
Attenuated access: Accounting for startup, maintenance, and affective costs in resource-constrained communities
Public Scholarship

Lucy Pei, Roderic Crooks

Apr 2020 • Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-15

Public Scholarship
Determining the extractive casting mold of intimate platforms through document theory
Public Scholarship
Determining the extractive casting mold of intimate platforms through document theory
Public Scholarship

Benedict Salazar Olgado, Lucy Pei, Roderic Crooks

Apr 2020 • Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-10

Public Scholarship
Cat-and-Mouse games: Dataveillance and performativity in urban schools
Peer-reviewed
Cat-and-Mouse games: Dataveillance and performativity in urban schools
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks

Aug 2019 • Surveillance & Society 17(3/4), 484-498

Peer-reviewed
SPACE IS THE PLACE.
Peer-reviewed
SPACE IS THE PLACE.
Peer-reviewed

Kelly Besser, Roderic Crooks, Dalena Hunter, Shani Miller

Feb 2019 • Library Journal 144(1), 45-48

Peer-reviewed
Times thirty: Access, maintenance, and justice
Peer-reviewed
Times thirty: Access, maintenance, and justice
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks

Jan 2019 • Science, Technology, & Human Values 44(1), 118-142 • SAGE Publications

Peer-reviewed
Critical failure: Computer-aided instruction and the fantasy of information
Peer-reviewed
Critical failure: Computer-aided instruction and the fantasy of information
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks

Jul 2018 • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 40(2), 85-88

Peer-reviewed
Contexts, critiques, and consequences: A discussion about educational data mining and learning analytics
Peer-reviewed
Contexts, critiques, and consequences: A discussion about educational data mining and learning analytics
Peer-reviewed

Kyle Jones, Chase McCoy, Roderic Crooks, Amy VanScoy

Jan 2018 • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 55(1), 697-700

Peer-reviewed
Representationalism at work: dashboards and data analytics in urban education
Peer-reviewed
Representationalism at work: dashboards and data analytics in urban education
Peer-reviewed

Roderic Crooks

Oct 2017 • Educational Media International 54(4), 289-303 • Routledge

Peer-reviewed
Seven dimensions of contemporary participation disentangled
Peer-reviewed
Seven dimensions of contemporary participation disentangled
Peer-reviewed

Christopher Kelty, Aaron Panofsky, Morgan Currie, Roderic Crooks, Seth Erickson, Patricia Garcia, Michael Wartenbe, Stacy Wood

May 2014 • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 66(3), 474-488

Peer-reviewed
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