Frances Corry

Frances Corry is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information. Prior to joining SCI, Frances earned her PhD and MA in communication from the University of Southern California, and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center on Digital Culture and Society.

Frances’ research employs critical and historical approaches to digital technology, emphasizing the prehistories and afterlives of data-intensive systems, from social media platforms to machine learning models. Her current major project examines the process of social media platform closure and content deletion to ask about the future of cultural memory. Work related to these themes has been published in venues including Convergence, FAccT, Feminist Media Studies, First Monday, Internet Histories, the International Journal of Communication, and elsewhere.