Has been any work on the notion of "algorithmic anger" or something similar?

I define AA (yes, pun intended) as the anger we feel when the algorithmic mediations in our lives (e.g., social media) screw us over (e.g., shadowban, deboost, etc.).

It's revealing to me how much frustration a broken algorithm can create in our lives. It's a testament to how much our lives are governed by black boxed, arbitrary, and broken algorithmic systems.

#academia #academicchatter #socialcomputing #research

Proud to have presented a research paper with my colleague Shaikh Abdul Basit at the 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN DARCH23 held in Turkey.

Our paper titled THE BRICK SCREEN: PARAMETRIC APPROACH TO TRADITIONAL PAKISTANI JALI WITHIN THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, goes into detail regarding the process and challenges of the recent parametric brick facade at Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi. Our motivation for this publication was to provide insights into working at extremes of the digital divide in a region like Pakistan and encourage fellow architects to pursue parametric design tools with existing design and construction practices.

The paper can be viewed at the following link

https://doi.org/10.46529/darch.2023apr07

#parametricarchitecture #parametricdesign #research #paper #architecture #pakistan #construction #digitaldivide #socialcomputing #phdjourney

Calling all #academics #scientists and #researchers of Mastodon. In the context of social media and the role of the Fediverse, what areas of research are poorly understood or under-researched? What are consider up-and-coming and novel?

#socialmedia #research #mastodon #fediverse #socialcomputing #socialnetwork #study

#recruiting for internships, PhD students, post-docs, academic positions, or non-academic positions focused on research in #socialcomputing or #computationalsocialscience?

Post your call in https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/ to target our growing community of students, researchers, and practitioners!

We're so close to 100 members over at https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/ -- come join the fun!

CompSocial is intended to be a hub for folks across the social computing / computational social science space to share resources, engage in discussions, and learn about what's new in the field.

#socialcomputing #CSCW #computationalsocialscience #hci #CHI #ICWSM

WAYRT? (What Are You Reading Today)

We're starting a new Wednesday tradition at CompSocial...

Come by and tell us about the papers, blog posts, tutorials, articles, anything that you've been reading lately that might be of interest to the broader #socialcomputing / #onlinecommunities / #computationalsocialscience community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/comments/z2ratr/wayrt/

We're at 42 members and counting over at https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/

Please come join us if this feels relevant to you and your work. We're hoping to make this a valuable source of community-contributed content, including paper links and discussions, CFPs, academic/industry job postings, and more.

#HCI #socialcomputing #computationalSocialScience #CSCW2022 #ICWSM #contentmoderation

For all my #HCI / #SocialComputing / #CompSocSci friends here, I'm excited that we have Mastodon as a space to support this community in the post-Twitter times.

I think Reddit could serve a valuable auxiliary function as a place to host lasting discussions across the community. Join me at https://reddit.com/r/CompSocial/ and let's co-create a thriving community there!

#CHI #CSCW #ICWSM

post-migration re-#introduction:

I'm an assistant professor in the School of Information at #umich. I develop computational methods to study conversations, in the vein of #computationalsocialscience #datascience #nlp #nlproc, with #socialcomputing #cscw #emca #hci #linguistics in my peripheral vision.

I have a dog whose yawns, out of context, can be construed as screaming. I maintain a messy mapping of books to cafés at http://tisjune.github.io/recreation/

Just had a great time presenting on "Crafting Social Experiences Online" in @asb's "Design of Online Communities" class. The students, as always, had fantastic questions.

If you're teaching a social computing class in the spring and are looking for guest speakers 👋🏽

#HCI #socialcomputing #onlinecommunities

Is anyone familiar with prior work that explores *who* provides feedback in online communities?

There is some work on identifying "experts" in knowledge-sharing communities, but is there research identifying what kinds of users are doing the social/community work of welcoming and encouraging new participants?

Any pointers at all, even peripherally relevant, would be appreciated!

#HCI #socialcomputing #computationalSocialScience #litreview

Been thinking more about how to introduce “design friction” to improve our online interactions. Mastodon has many, such as the lack of a quote-post function, that constrain virality. But, we lose the pro-social effects of virality, such as visibility into a conversation going on outside of our own “filter bubble.”

More on the antivirality of Mastodon: https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

#ux #userexperience #HCI #CSCW #socialcomputing #socialmedia #design #News

Quick heads-up that we will be presenting this work on measuring/predicting "Sense of Virtual Community" within Twitch Channels in one hour (6-7PM PST), at the "Online Communities & Inclusivity" session at #CSCW2022

https://twitter.com/skairam/status/1565454931481354241

#HCI #socialmedia #socialcomputing #computationalsocialscience

Apparently people share a toot with hashtags related to what they do to make themselves discoverable for their communities on other instances. So: #NZTwits #emergence #evolution #complexityscience #networkscience #informatics #socialcomputing #datascience #cscw #computationalSocialScience #academics #academidon #newzealand #nlproc #computerscience #deutschsprachige #Germany #expat #wellington

Apparently people are asking - so yes, I am looking for PhD students for this year at UW CSE! Probably not more than 1 or 2 people since our lab has grown but I'm always interested in folks who are excited by the idea of designing and building new kinds of social computing systems! Especially in this day and age *gestures around*, there's SO MUCH to do! Learn more about our lab at https://social.cs.washington.edu/

#chi2023 #uist2022 #cscw2022 #hci #socialcomputing #phd

an #introduction in hashtags

I'm faculty in #informationscience at #cuboulder where I teach and research e.g. #aiethics #socialcomputing and #fandom.

I had a mastodon account dormant since 2017 but made this one for a new instance ( #hci ❤️ ) as part of the #twittermigration. If this is the new home of #academictwitter I'll stick around but will miss the broader audience/community.

I'm also on #tiktok & #instagram as professorcasey.

My favorite emoji is 🥰 .

@glynmoody Would be very interesting to see a #SocialComputing/#HCI study into how user behaviours change after #twittermigration - I wonder how much of it is about the number of people around vs how much about the lack of algorithmic feeds etc?