Sophia Brueckner: Joins the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing program as a co-director

Sophia Brueckner joins Christian Sandvig, Patricia Garcia, and Silvia Lindtner as co-director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC) at UM.

The ESC key was added to the computer keyboard to interrupt a program when it produced unwanted results, allowing the system to be critically examined. In the same way, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC – pronounced ​“escape”) is dedicated to intervening when digital media and computing technologies reproduce inequality, exclusion, corruption, deception, racism, or sexism. ESC is a research center and a collective of scholars committed to feminist, justice-focused, inclusive, and interdisciplinary approaches to computing. We are invested in the social, cultural, and political dimensions of digital technologies. We intercede in structures of power and inequality. We work with educators, workers, industrial practitioners, and policymakers.