Social Computing and Platforms

I am also interested in studying how platforms shape attention and create community.

Key References

  1. 2021 · PaperCEAM: The Effectiveness of Cyclic and Ephemeral Attention Models of User Behavior on Social PlatformsAAAI ICWSM
  2. 2021 · PaperAdverTiming Matters: Examining User Ad Consumption for Effective Ad Allocations on Social MediaACM CHI

More work in this topic

A not-totally-exhaustive (because there’s a lot of overlap between these themes) list of “outputs” that meet this theme.

2026May 2026PaperHow Creatives Approach GenAI Image Generation: Tensions Between Structured Guidance, Self-Experimentation, and Creative AutonomyACM Creativity & Cognition
2026Mar 2026PaperTracing Everyday AI Literacy Discussions at Scale: How Online Creative Communities Make Sense of Generative AIACM CHI
2025Jun 2025PaperPush and Pull: A Framework for Measuring Attentional Agency on Digital PlatformsACM FAccT
2025May 2025BlogGoogle and TikTok rank bundles of information; ChatGPT ranks grains.Data Leverage
2024Apr 2024MediaIs this AI? See if you can spot the technology in your everyday lifeThe Washington Post
2023Nov 2023PaperPeer Produced Friction: How Page Protection on Wikipedia Affects Editor Engagement and ConcentrationACM CSCW
2023Mar 2023Other paperRetracted Articles about COVID-19 Vaccines Enable Vaccine Misinformation on TwitterarXiv preprint
2022Mar 2022Other paperOnline Engagement with Retracted Articles: Who, When, and How?arXiv preprint
2021Jun 2021MediaGot the same name as a serial killer? Google might think you’re the same personVox
2018Nov 2018PaperWomen (still) ask for less: Gender differences in hourly rate in an online labor marketplaceACM CSCW