{"id":20325,"date":"2025-08-19T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/?page_id=20325"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:47:00","slug":"dr-lucy-pei","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/about\/dr-lucy-pei\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lucy Pei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spotlight image-left\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spotlight\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>ERI Community Power Postdoctoral Scholar<br \/>\nPronouns: she\/her<br \/>\nEmail: lucypei@usc.edu<\/p>\n<p>PhD, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine<br \/>\nBA, Global Studies and Human Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/08\/headshot-square-photo-1-768x768.jpeg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/08\/headshot-square-photo-1-1280x1280.jpeg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/08\/headshot-square-photo-1-768x768.jpeg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Lucy Pei is a Community Power Postdoctoral Scholar at ERI. Lucy earned her Ph.D. in Informatics at UC Irvine, with a dissertation focused on transnational solidarity and labor organizing among workers made precarious by technology-mediated work. This project was based on a long-term ethnographic accompaniment with migrant gig worker organizers in Latin America. Lucy\u2019s work also has sought to collaborate with communities to develop ways to engage openly with the downsides of technological intervention (i.e. \u201ctech for good\u201d) while still trying to more equitably distribute the benefits of technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy\u2019s research is in conversation with fields including informatics and information studies, human computer interaction and design, science and technology studies (STS), labor studies, and global studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Publications<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Pei, Lucy. 2026. \u201cMaking a Global Gig Workers\u2019 Movement Meaningful Locally: Friction in Activists\u2019 Everyday Strategies.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">New Media &amp; Society<\/i><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>28 (8): 3863\u201379.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14614448251352542\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14614448251352542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14614448251352542<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Pei, Lucy. 2025. \u201cScalar Devices of a Global Movement of Gig Worker Activists.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction<\/i><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>9 (7): 1\u201322.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3757654\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3757654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3757654<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Pei, Lucy, Uriel Serrano, and Roderic Crooks. 2024. \u201c\u2018For Me, Data Is Ammunition\u2019: Metaphors and Community Organizers\u2019 Data Imaginaries.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing<\/i><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>(New York, NY, USA), CSCW Companion \u201924, November 13, 376\u201381.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3678884.3681878\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3678884.3681878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3678884.3681878<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Olgado, Benedict Salazar, and Lucy Pei. 2022. \u201cStewarding the Documental Afterlives of Refugee Tech Initiatives.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction<\/i><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span>6 (CSCW2): 459:1-459:23.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3555560\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3555560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3555560<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Pei, Lucy, Benedict Salazar Olgado, and Roderic Crooks. 2022. \u201cNarrativity, Audience, Legitimacy: Data Practices of Community Organizers.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts<\/i>, April 27, 1\u20136.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3491101.3519673\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3491101.3519673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3491101.3519673<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Pei, Lucy, Benedict Salazar Olgado, and Roderic Crooks. 2021. \u201cMarket, Testbed, Backroom: The Redacted Internet of Facebook\u2019s Discover.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/i>, May 6, 1\u201313.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3411764.3445754\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3411764.3445754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3411764.3445754<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Olgado, Benedict Salazar, Lucy Pei, and Roderic Crooks. 2020. \u201cDetermining the Extractive Casting Mold of Intimate Platforms through Document Theory.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/i>, April 21, 1\u201310.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3313831.3376850\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3313831.3376850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3313831.3376850<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Pei, Lucy, and Roderic Crooks. 2020. \u201cAttenuated Access: Accounting for Startup, Maintenance, and Affective Costs in Resource-Constrained Communities.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/i>, April 21, 1\u201315.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3313831.3376587\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3313831.3376587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3313831.3376587<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\" data-ogsc=\"black\">Pei, Lucy, and Bonnie Nardi. 2019. \u201cWe Did It Right, But It Was Still Wrong: Toward Assets-Based Design.\u201d<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><i data-ogsc=\"\">Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\u00a0 &#8211; CHI EA \u201919<\/i>, 1\u201311.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\" data-ogsc=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3290607.3310434\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3290607.3310434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"8\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3290607.3310434<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  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