EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy. University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Dissertation title: “The Data-fication of Openness – the Policies and Practices of Open Data in Los Angeles.” 2016
Master of Library and Information Science. University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. 2013
Masters of Arts in New Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Thesis: “The Promiscuous Library.” Graduated Cum laude. 2010
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Smith College, Northampton, MA. 2003
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Currie, M., J. Knox & C. McGregor (eds.). (2022). Data Justice & the Right to the City. University of Edinburgh Press (open access).
Currie, M., & M. Correa. (2021). The Culture and Communities Mapping Project. Palgrave Macmillan.
REFEREED ARTICLES
L. Podoletz. and M. Currie (2024) Automating universal credit: A case of temporal governance. First Monday, 29(2). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i2.13580.
Currie, M., and Podoletz, L. (2023). Emotions and Dynamic Assemblages: A Study of Automated Social Security Using Qualitative Longitudinal Research. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1101–1111. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593013.3594066
Hemment, D., Currie, M., Bennett, SJ, Elwes, J., Ridler, A., Sinders, C., Vidmar, M., Hill, R., and Warner, H.( 2023). AI in the Public Eye: Investigating Public AI Literacy Through AI Art. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 931–942. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593013.3594052
Well, L., Currie, M., Stewart, J. (2023). Surveillance, discretion and governance in automated welfare: the case of the German ALLEGRO system. Science & Technology Studies.
Pierre, J., R. Crooks, M. Currie, B. Paris, I. Pasquetto. (2021). Getting Ourselves Together: Epistemic Burden and Data-centered Participatory Design Research. Proceedings of the 202o CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. May. Article No.: 406 Pages 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445103. Best Paper Award.
Crooks, R. & Currie, M. (2021). Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices. The Information Society. DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2021.1920081
Currie, M. & M. Correa (2021). Tangibles, intangibles and other tensions in the Culture & Communities Mapping Project. Cultural Trends. 10 May. DOI: 10.1080/09548963.2021.1910491
Currie, M. (2020). Data as performance – showcasing the city through open data maps. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720907953.
Currie, M. & W. F. Hsu (2019). Performing bureaucracy: Cultures of government data practice. Journal of Cultural Analytics. https://culturalanalytics.org/article/11042.
Currie, M., B. Paris, & Donovan J. (2019). What difference do data make? Data management and social change. Online Information Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-02-2018-0052.
Currie, M., & B. Paris. (2018). Back-ups for the future. Archival practices for data activism. Archives & Manuscripts. June.
Currie, M. (2018). A dual valuation of open government. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on the Digital Government Research. Delft, The Netherlands, 30 May – 1 June.
Currie, M., B. Paris, I. Pasquetto, and J. Pierre (2016). The conundrum of police officer-involved homicides: Counter-data in Los Angeles County. Big Data & Society. 3.2: 2053951716663566. bds.sagepub.com.
Fidler, B. and M. Currie (2016). Infrastructure, representation, and historiography in BBN’s Arpanet maps. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 38.3: 44–57. IEEE Xplore.
Fidler, B. and M. Currie (2015). The Production and interpretation of ARPANET maps. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 37.1:44-55, January-March, DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2015.16.
Kelty, C., A. Panofsky, R. Crooks, M. Currie, S. Erickson, P. Garcia, S. Wood, and M. Wartenbe (2014). Seven dimensions of contemporary participation disentangled. Journal of the American Society for Information and Technology. 66.3, June.
Currie, M., C. Kelty, and L. F. Murillo (2013). Free software trajectories: From organized publics to formal social enterprises? Journal of Peer Production, Issue #3.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Currie, M., C. McGregor, J. Knox. (2022). Introduction to Data Justice & the Right to the City. With J. Knox & C. McGregor. In Currie, M., J. Knox & C. McGregor (eds.). Data Justice & the Right to the City. University of Edinburgh Press.
Paris, B., M. Currie, I. Pasquetto, and J. Pierre. (2022). Data Burdens: Epistemologies of Evidence in Police Reform and Abolition Movements. In Currie, M., J. Knox & C. McGregor (eds.). Data Justice & the Right to the City. University of Edinburgh Press.
Lyons, C. and M. Currie (2022). Easy Sharing: A sharing-economy pilot service in areas of multiple deprivation in West Edinburgh. In L. Ciolfi and P. Travlou (eds.), Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe: Understanding Sharing and Caring, Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bct.
Currie, M. (2018). Hacking administration: A report from Los Angeles. In Hunsinger J. and A. Schrock (eds.), Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context, New York: Peter Lang.
Currie, M. (2012). The feminist critique: Mapping controversy in Wikipedia. In Berry, D. M. (ed.), Understanding Digital Humanities, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 224-248.
OP-EDS, REPORTS AND BOOK REVIEWS
Littman, et al. Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report. arXiv:2210.15767.
Currie, M. & B. Catanzariti (2020). Data Politics: Drag, Deepfakes and the Taming of Technology. The New Real Magazine. 14 October.
Currie, M. (2020). Explainer: How DeepFakes Are Impacting Society. The New Real Magazine. 14 October.
Niker, F, J. Himmelreich, J. Feldman, & M. Currie, M. (2019). Coding Caring Workshop Report. Focused study for the Stanford AI100 Report. Stanford University, 28-29 May.
Lyons, C & M. Currie (2019). Easy Sharing: A sharing-economy pilot service in areas of multiple deprivation in West Edinburgh. P. Travlou & L. Ciolfi (Eds.). Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies Conference Proceedings. University of Edinburgh, 25 October. ISBN 978-1-912669-11-0.
Paris, B. S. and Currie, M. (2018). Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office, The Conversation, 21 March.
Currie, M. (2017). The datafication of transparency work: A report from Los Angeles. Proceedings for the Interactions Symposium on Big Data. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 13(2). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73j1q5sp.
Paris, B. S., Currie, M., Donovan, J. (2017). Grand intentions, small interventions: Climate data rescue as counter-data action. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. Estonia 18 – 21 October.
Paris, B. S., and Currie, M. (2017). How the “guerrilla archivists” saved history – and are doing it again under Trump. The Conversation, February 21. http://theconversation.com/how-the-guerrilla-archivists-saved-history-and-are-doing-it-again-under-trump-72346.
RECENT GRANTS
2021 ESRC New Investigator Grant, 01/10/2021 – 31/09/2023 “Automating Universal Credit,” £296,548
2021 ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant, 01/01/2021 – 31/05/2021 “Exploring Cultural Dispersal” £19,396
2020 DDI Beacon Build Back Better Open Call, 1/2/2020 – 30/7/2021, “The Cultural Data Trust,” £9,045.16
2020 DDI Data-driven Innovation Grant Fund, University of Edinburgh, “Culture in/out of Lockdown,” £13,656
2019 City of Edinburgh Council Grant, “Culture and Communities Mapping Project,” £12,500
2018 Presence Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Inclusion & Equity (AiMIE) 2018 Seed Grants, Stanford University, “Coding caring,” $21,872
2018 100 Year Study on Artificial Intelligence Grant, Stanford University, “Coding caring: Human values for intimate AI,” $15,000
