Casey Fiesler

Casey Fiesler is an American associate professor at University of Colorado Boulder who studies technology ethics, internet law and policy, and online communities.

Career

Fiesler graduated from Georgia Tech with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing and a Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University. She is among the founding members of the CU Boulder Information Science Department. She has spoken about toxicity, parasocial interactions, and other topics, especially surrounding social media trends. Her TikToks have also covered IP and patent law in the context of social media and artificial intelligence.

Fiesler received a grant in 2017 to research the ethics of social media studies, such as analyzing user's posts en masse without their permission (i.e. determining sexual orientation with facial recognition tools). She has also researched social media migration, such as when users moved from LiveJournal to Tumblr.

In 2014, Fiesler went viral by calling out the introduction of a Computer Engineer Barbie as misogynistic due to the accompanying story and suggested her own story. Fiesler later provided expertise to Mattel during the development of new STEM-focused Barbies.