Kristina Green
Doctoral Candidate
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About
Kristina M. Green is a PhD candidate and IGERT Fellow in Privacy and Electronic Security in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Her work focuses on human-machine communication (HMC) and the sociopolitical and economic consequences of artificial intelligence. Her dissertation research uses Amazon Go cashierless convenience stores as a case study for understanding how our perceptions of safety, security, and surveillance shift when a human cashier is replaced by sensor fusion technology. Kristina’s dissertation uses Nagy and Neff’s (2015) imagined affordances as a theoretical framework and applies three main methodological approaches to triangulate her findings: semi-structured interviews, the Walkthrough Method, and Critical Media Industry Analysis.
Born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, Kristina holds an MA and BS from Boston University’s College of Communication in Emerging Media Studies and Film and Television Production, respectively. Her master’s thesis explored mobile health (mHealth) wearables, like FitBit, as gamified, nudging technologies from the perspective of self- determination theory (SDT, Deci & Ryan, 2012).
Since joining UIC, Kristina has presented her research at academic conferences including the Association of Internet Research (AoIR), the National Communication Association (NCA), the International Communication Association (ICA), Collective Intelligence (CI), and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). She has also attended international methods workshops including the Summer Doctoral Programme at Oxford Internet Institute, the Digital Media Research Center Summer School at the Queensland University of Technology and the International Summer School in Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour at the University of Milan. Kristina is also pursuing a certificate in survey research methods from UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
Education
MA and BS from Boston University’s College of Communication in Emerging Media Studies and Film and Television Production