PhD student
School of Computing, University of Georgia.
I study the work of culture change in computing toward addressing harm, focusing on:
The cultural barriers to addressing harm caused by computing systems
The experiences of the people interested in addressing harmful cultural beliefs and practices
What enables and what hinders culture change efforts
Creating anything is a deeply social and cultural (and spiritual) practice. When we make something, we bring our whole selves to it: our assumptions, values, what we find meaningful, and even aspects of ourselves that we cannot yet name.
When we create technology, we materialize what we value and inscribe fragments of our identity into the world. Through these artifacts, our identities become entangled with the lives of others. What we collectively create is situated within and (re)produces norms, expectations and practices that create our culture. Understanding who we are and what drives us is therefore necessary to understanding the cultures we build and the harms they produce.
In my work, I study barriers to addressing harm caused by computing systems and the people, infrastructures, and systems attempting to address these barriers through culture change in computing.
I have presented my work at CHI and CSCW.
Peer-reviewed work:
Eddie A. Gomez Schieber, Ari Schlesinger
Becoming the Center of Other People's Identity Struggles: Content Creators Who Question, Critique, and Leave High-Pressure, Identity-Defining Communities via Social Media
CHI 2026 Barcelona, Spain. April 2026 (ACM DL)
Eddie A. Gomez Schieber, Nathaniel Kite, Matthew I. Hall, Christian Turner, Ari Schlesinger
Attorneys and AI: How Lawyers Use Artificial Intelligence and Analyze Its Impacts
CSCW 2025 (ACM DL)
Other media:
I was interviewed about my research by UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
Read the resulting article, Finding Humanity in the Algorithm (February 2025) here!
Contact:
Eddie . Gomez @ uga . edu
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