Casey Fiesler is an American associate professor at

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sy ...

who studies

technology policy There are several approaches to defining the substance and scope of technology policy. According to the American scientist and policy advisor Lewis M. Branscomb, technology policy concerns the "public means for nurturing those capabilities and op ...

internet law Information technology law (also called cyberlaw) concerns the law of information technology, including computing and the internet. It is related to legal informatics, and governs the digital dissemination of both (digitized) information and sof ...

and policy, and

public communication In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

Career

Fiesler graduated from

Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing and a JD from

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

. While at Georgia Tech, Fiesler helped provide research into AO3, as a model for healthy online communities for women and other minorities. She is among the founding members of the CU Boulder Information Science Department. Fiesler is also known for her public communication work on

TikTok TikTok, known in China as Douyin (), is a short-form video hosting service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 15 seconds to 10 minutes. TikTok is an international version o ...

around algorithmic justice, social media platforms and policy, and ethical considerations around technology. She has spoken previously about toxicity, parasocial interactions, and other user behaviors on social media, especially with regards to many social media trends. Her TikToks have also provided education around IP and patent law, especially with regards to modern social media and artificial intelligence. Fiesler received a grant in 2017, to do research centered around ethics when running studies on social media, such as analyzing user's posts en masse without their permission (i.e. determining sexual orientation with facial recognition tools). She has also done research around social media migration, such as when users moved from

LiveJournal LiveJournal (russian: Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, a ...

Tumblr Tumblr (stylized as tumblr; pronounced "tumbler") is an American microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a sho ...

. In 2014, Fiesler called out the introduction of a

Computer Engineer Barbie Computer Engineer Barbie is the 126th career version of Mattel's Barbie doll. In response to poll results indicating strong support for computer engineers, the doll set was created and introduced in 2010. In 2014, Mattel apologized for the accom ...

as misogynistic due to the accompanying story and suggested her own story, which received viral attention. Fiesler has gone on to help provide expertise to Barbie's company,

Mattel Mattel, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company has presence in 35 countries and territories and sells products in more ...

, when creating new STEM- focused Barbies. Fiesler has

Type 1 diabetes Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that originates when cells that make insulin (beta cells) are destroyed by the immune system. Insulin is a hormone required for the cells to use blood sugar ...

. She has done advocacy and research regarding technology and diabetes, especially around

insulin pump An insulin pump is a medical device used for the administration of insulin in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, also known as continuous subcutaneous insulin therapy. The device configuration may vary depending on design. A traditional pump ...

technology.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiesler, Casey American computer science educators Human–computer interaction researchers American TikTokers Women in computing Living people Georgia Tech alumni Vanderbilt University Law School alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women writers American writers with disabilities People with type 1 diabetes