About

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Pelle Tracey is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information, where he is advised by Patricia Garcia. He is a member of the Culturally Responsive Computing and Anthrotech Labs, and an affiliated researcher with the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.

Pelle is a multi-method scholar broadly interested in how automated technologies, AI, and recordkeeping work in practice, particularly when deployed in frontline government or rental housing contexts. His current research is an ethnographic investigation of automation in homeless services coordinated entry systems, conceived as constellations of artifacts, people, data, policy, and design. His work draws from, and contributes to, critical data studies, archival studies, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), and human-computer interaction (HCI).

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Dissertation title 

Algorithmic Governance in Practice: an Ethnography of Homeless Services Coordinated Entry Systems

Fields of interest 

Critical Studies of Design and Computing; Archival Studies; Science, Technology, and Society

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Earlham College, 2017