PhD in Informatics - Computing, Culture, and Society in Bloomington United States | Indiana University Bloomington

The Computing, Culture and Society (CCS) research team focuses on exploring the complex relationships between technological advancements and their social, political, cultural, and economic impacts. Whether examining artificial intelligence, social platforms, gaming ecosystems, workplace technologies, data analytics, or mobile systems, digital tools permeate modern existence. Our work investigates how these innovations influence power dynamics, systemic inequalities, and social hierarchies. As an interdisciplinary collective, we employ diverse methodologies spanning case studies, design research, ethnography, experiments, historical analysis, surveys, and visual techniques. The CCS program equips students with critical social science and humanities frameworks, methodological expertise, and analytical skills. Building upon this rigorous foundation, CCS scholars conduct groundbreaking studies examining how global cultures and societies interact with, resist, and transform information and communication technologies.