William Frey

William R. Frey is a Joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Information and the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan. William's interdisciplinary research investigates the relationship between humans and technology, complicating how we think about digital platforms and artificial intelligence. With groundings in critical theory and qualitative and ethnographic methods, he studies how technologies impact human interaction and how humans use, navigate, refuse, and resist technologies to survive and thrive. Guided by participatory methods, William's current work explores oppositional approaches to AI with a specific focus on AI praxis—how people develop critical artificial literacies and enact their beliefs and concerns about AI through practices. 

William's scholarship is informed by over 15 years of critical dialogic facilitation practice and his work aims to create connective tissue between research, spaces of practice, and everyday life. He co-organizes the Critical Race and Intersectional Technology (CRIT) Collective—an intergenerational, intellectual, and creative community of care—and hosts a weekly virtual writing space called Café Baldwin. William currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he serves as a Resident Tutor in Adams House at Harvard College with his wife, Kemeyawi, and their Italian Greyhound, Karl Marx.