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Frances Corry
- Assistant Professor
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.
Institution of Highest Degree
- PhD in Communication, University of Southern California
Representative Publications
(Forthcoming) Corry, F. Never Forget? Memory Maintenance on an Aging Platform. Convergence. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565221129224
(2022) Luccioni, A.S., Corry, F., Sridharan, H., Ananny, M., Schultz, J., Crawford, K. A Framework for Dataset Deprecation: Standardizing Documentation, Identification, and Communications. 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 199–212. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533086.
(2022) Corry, F. Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end. Internet Histories. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985360
(2021) Corry, F. Screenshot, Save, Share, Shame: Making sense of new media through screenshots and public shame. First Monday. http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i4.11649
(2021) Corry, F. (2021, May 4). Op-Ed: Yahoo! Answers is shutting down and taking a record of my teenage self with it. Los Angeles Times. https://latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-04/yahoo-answers-shut-down-social-platforms
Research Interests
Data management practices
Social media platforms
Memory and storage
History of technology