What is CITAP?
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) is a research center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill dedicated to understanding the growing impact of the internet, social media, and other forms of digital information sharing in the context of the people who design, use, and govern them.
Our researchers include Deen Freelon, Daniel Kreiss, Alice Marwick, Zeynep Tufekci, Shannon McGregor, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Francesca Tripodi.
We recognize that effective analysis of technology platforms and information systems requires
A holistic approach grounded in history, society, culture, and politics
Analyzing how social differences—including race and ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual identity—shape unequal information ecosystem dynamics
Prioritizing questions of power, institutions, and economic, social, cultural, and technological structures
Making clear foundational commitments to equality and justice
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