Society, Technology, and Subjectivity Lab (STS-Lab)

The STS-Lab is a research group based in the Ph.D. Program in Psychology with an emphasis in Media and Technology at Fielding Graduate University that meets regularly to discuss ideas and conduct ongoing research. The lab is a creative space for exploring students’ interests, collaborating, and engaging in and publishing research studies. 

We use qualitative, interpretive, and critical-historical methods to investigate relations between the social, psychological, and technological. We explore the ways in which media and technology both reflect and construct social reality and how knowledge about the self and social categories such as race, gender, sexuality, and disability are impacted by mediated forms of communication, emerging technological formations, and scientific knowledge. 

Ongoing research projects include investigating the use of mental health apps and artificial intelligence chatbots for para-psychotherapeutic purposes and beliefs about data privacy, representations of neurodivergence in social media, and attempts to categorize gender based on digital traces.