Amy Bruckman

Amy Bruckman is Regents' Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She previously served as Senior Associate Chair of the school from 2019 to 2024, along with other leadership roles including Associate Chair from 2014 to 2019 and Interim Chair in 2017. Bruckman received her B.A. in physics from Harvard University in 1987, M.S. from the MIT Media Lab's Interactive Cinema Group in 1991, and Ph.D. from the Epistemology and Learning Group in the MIT Media Lab in 1997. She has been on the faculty at Georgia Tech since 1997, starting as Assistant Professor, advancing to Associate Professor in 2003, Professor in 2012, and Regents' Professor in 2021.

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.

Professional Email: asb@cc.gatech.edu