Nora McDonald

Nora McDonald investigates the strategies people use to safeguard their privacy and design of ethical, secure technologies. Her research explores how people adapt their privacy practices and “threat models" in response to emergent vulnerabilities within dynamic surveillance and legal landscapes. She also examines how evolving data relations, such as those shaped by social media algorithms, influence self-perception, worldviews, and societal norms around surveillance and privacy.

McDonald has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles in leading HCI and social computing venues. Her work has received multiple Best Paper awards at prestigious conferences, including ACM CHI and CSCW.

Teaching

• HCI

• Technology Ethics

Degrees

• PhD, Information Science, Drexel University

• BS, English, Cornell University D10