Richmond Wong
Assistant Professor
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Overview
Dr. Richmond Wong is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media, where he runs the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab.
His research focuses on understanding the social values, ethical issues, and work involved in technology production and use. Specifically, he studies how technology professionals address ethical issues in their work, and how to create the social and organizational conditions that can help support technologists to make ethical decisions. He also develops design-centered approaches to engage groups that create or are impacted by digital technology, to proactively discuss and consider ethical issues related to technology such as privacy or fairness. Richmond's work utilizes qualitative and design-based methods, drawing from science and technology studies, speculative and critical design, and human-computer interaction. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley School of Information, and a postdoc at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.
- PhD, Information Management and Systems
- BA, Information Science
- BA, Science & Technology Studies
Interests
- Digital Media
- Science and Technology Studies
- Ethical Practices in Contemporary Contexts
- Human/Machine Interaction
- Infrastructure
- Internet Studies
- Privacy
- Science and Technology
- Surveillance
- Technology
Courses
- LMC-3302: Sci, Tech & Ideology
- LMC-3314: Technologies of Representation
- LMC-6316: Historical Approahces Di: Historical Approaches to Digital Media
- LMC-6399: Discovery & Invention
- LMC-6650: Project Studio: Designing with Imagined Futures of Tech
- LMC-6800: Digital Media Master's Project
- LMC-8001: Digital Media Studies
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Privacy Legislation as Business Risks: How GDPR and CCPA are Represented in Technology Companies' Investment Risk Disclosures
In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 7, Issue CSCW1 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2023
- Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics
In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 7, Issue CSCW1 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2023
Conferences
- Broadening Privacy and Surveillance: Eliciting Interconnected Values with a Scenarios Workbook on Smart Home Cameras
In: DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2023