Join the Technology & Information Policy Institute (TIPI), R-T-F and the College of Communications as we welcome Eric Meyer, Dean of the School of Information. 

The story of society is inextricably bound with the rise of tools and machines. In the digital age, the machines we have created have become immensely powerful on the one hand, but are limited in many ways. This talk uses examples from research over the last decade including citizen science, digital scholarship, crisis response, and knowledge creation on the internet to explore how humans and machines work jointly and independently in complex socio-technical assemblages.

Eric T. Meyer is Mary R. Boyvey Chair, Louis T. Yule Regents Professor, and Dean of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin; he is also a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research examines the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices. Professor Meyer earned his PhD in information science, specializing in social informatics, at Indiana University, before going on to become Professor of Social Informatics at the University of Oxford. He has been Dean at the University of Texas since 2018.