About
John Seberger, PhD is an assistant professor in Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) and is an interdisciplinary scholar whose human-centered work crosses boundaries between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), social informatics, information studies and humanistic psychology. Using quantitative, qualitative and conceptual analysis, his work focuses on how people experience their daily worlds through and by means of computational technologies (e.g., apps, IoT devices, AI agents) and how such experience relates to contemporary transformations in historical discourses, such as "privacy," "the self," and "the human." He is passionate about dignity, equity, emerging ontologies and hopeful futures grounded in human resilience.
He holds a PhD in Information and Computer Science from University of California, Irvine (UCI), an MLIS from University of Pittsburgh, an MSc in Research Methods in the Psychology of Music from Keele University, and a BA in Psychology from Kenyon College. Prior to joining Drexel CCI, John has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California Irvine Department of Informatics, Indiana University (Informatics) and Michigan State University (Communications) in addition to working as a senior fellow in the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus University Weimar. He is a core member of the Re:Enlightenment research collective and a former graduate fellow of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. He publishes award-winning work across a range of communities, including the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) and the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative work and Social Computing (CSCW).