William R. Frey

William Frey is a joint postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Information and the School of Social Work. His research examines the relationship between technology and the social world, complicating how we think about digital contexts and artificial intelligence. Frey's interdisciplinary research aims to counteract techno-solutionist frames and artificial intelligence hype narratives while studying how people understand, navigate, resist and refuse artificial intelligence. He also works with digital communities to better understand the socio-technological harms they face and develop pathways and architectures for healthy relationships. Frey's scholarship is informed by over 15 years of critical dialogical facilitation practice, and his work aims to create connective tissue between research (conceptual, theoretical and empirical) and spaces of practice and everyday life.