#  William Frey 

Bok Graduate Fellow

 

 

 



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William Frey is an Bok Graduate Fellow on the AI track with the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. He is also a jointly funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Information and the School of Social Work, and Faculty Affiliate of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. He co-leads the Critical Race and Intersectional Technology (CRIT) Collective—an intergenerational, creative, and intellectual community of care.

William’s scholarship examines the relationship between humans and technology, complicating how we think about digital platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). With groundings in critical theory and qualitative participatory methods, he focuses on how technologies impact human interaction and how humans use, navigate, and resist technologies to survive and thrive. His research can be found in the *Journal of Research on Adolescence*, *Social Science Computer Review*, *Advances in Social Work*, *Data & Society*, and elsewhere. William received his Ph.D from Columbia University in Social Work with concentrations in technology, social media, and critical social theory; his M.S.W. in Community Organization and B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.



 

 

 





 

 

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