About
Megan Rim (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research interests broadly look at race and digital technology with specific attention to social movements, surveillance, infrastructures, and algorithmic bias. Her work is theoretically and methodologically inspired by Black and Women of Color Feminisms, Feminist STS, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and Critical Data Studies. Her current dissertation project examines how the deployment of facial recognition technologies reinvigorates and expands racist and eugenicist systems, infrastructures, and logic. Looking at sites from Black Lives Matter protests to TikTok augmented reality face filters, the project explores the stakes of adoption and use of the technology in the United States today. She has a recent chapter, “Race, Gender, and Visibility on TikTok,” in the edited volume Technology and Ethics (Routledge 2023).
