Tawfiq Ammari
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science
Faculty, PhD LIS Faculty
Biography
Tawfiq Ammari is a mixed-methods researcher who connects critical approaches from science, technology, and society studies with computational social science techniques to advocate for equity and progressive social change in online contexts. His research sits at the intersection of social computing and data science and focuses on the interplay between technological and social role change, especially in families and other intimate social worlds.
Ammari studies how large societal shifts, such as changing norms around masculinity and parenting, are associated with online interactions and social movements. He also examines how the mass adoption of technologies such as social media and voice assistants reshapes everyday life in the domestic sphere and how networked technologies can support people navigating stigma, caregiving, and other forms of vulnerability.
His work appears in venues such as the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, and Child Abuse & Neglect. In 2022, Ammari received the “AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Human-Computer Interaction” award from AMiner Scholar for his contributions to human–computer interaction research between 2012 and 2021.
Education
Ph.D., Information Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M.S., Information Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.Sc., Computer Engineering, University of Jordan