Rate My Professor Amy Bruckman

Her research specializes in social computing, focusing on online collaboration, content moderation, social movements, understanding across differences, and internet research ethics. Bruckman authored the book Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Selected key publications include "Does Transparency in Moderation Really Matter?: User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit" (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW 2019; Best Paper Award), "Hollaback!: The Role of Storytelling Online in a Social Movement Organization" (CSCW 2013; Best Paper Honorable Mention and ACM CSCW Lasting Impact Award, 2025), "Redistributing Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration" (CSCW 2013; Best Paper), and "Understanding Copyright Law in Online Creative Communities" (CSCW 2015; Best Paper). She has received numerous accolades, including ACM Fellow (2018), membership in the ACM SIGCHI Academy (2018), the Lockheed Excellence in Teaching Award (2018), multiple Best Paper awards at CSCW and CHI conferences, Technology Review TR100 (1999), and Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies (2002). Bruckman contributed to the 2018 update of the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and serves on the ACM New Publications Committee.