Publications

2024

Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI Taylor, Jordan and Simpson, Ellen and Tran, Anh-Ton and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fox, Sarah E and Zhu, Haiyi
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642494
LGBTQ+ people have received increased attention in HCI research, paralleling a greater emphasis on social justice in recent years. However, there has not been a systematic review of how LGBTQ+ people are researched or discussed in HCI. In this work, we review all research mentioning LGBTQ+ people across the HCI venues of CHI, CSCW, DIS, and TOCHI. Since 2014, we find a linear growth in the number of papers substantially about LGBTQ+ people and an exponential increase in the number of mentions. Research about LGBTQ+ people tends to center experiences of being politicized, outside the norm, stigmatized, or highly vulnerable. LGBTQ+ people are typically mentioned as a marginalized group or an area of future research. We identify gaps and opportunities for (1) research about and (2) the discussion of LGBTQ+ in HCI and provide a dataset to facilitate future Queer HCI research.
Products of Positionality: How Tech Workers Shape Identity Concepts in Computer Vision Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3641890
There has been a great deal of scholarly attention on issues of identity-related bias in machine learning. Much of this attention has focused on data and data workers, workers who do annotation tasks. Yet tech workers—like engineers, data scientists, and researchers—introduce their own “biases” when defining “identity” concepts. More specifically, they instill their own positionalities, the way they understand and are shaped by the world around them. Through interviews with industry tech workers who focus on computer vision, we show how workers embed their own positional perspectives into products and how positional gaps can lead to unforeseen and undesirable outcomes. We discuss how worker positionality is mutually shaped by the contexts in which they are embedded. We provide implications for researchers and practitioners to engage with the positionalities of tech workers, as well as those in contexts outside of development that influence tech workers.
"I Am So Overwhelmed I Don’t Know Where to Begin!" Towards Developing Relationship-Based and Values-Based End-of-Life Data Planning Approaches Doyle, Dylan Thomas and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642250
To support people at the end of life as they create management plans for their assets, planning approaches like estate planning are increasingly considering data. HCI scholarship has argued that developing more effective planning approaches to support end-of-life data planning is important. However, empirical research is needed to evaluate specific approaches and identify design considerations. To support end-of-life data planning, this paper presents a qualitative study evaluating two approaches to co-designing end-of-life data plans with participants. We find that asset-first inventory-centric approaches, common in material estate planning, may be ineffective when making plans for data. In contrast, heavily facilitated, mission-driven, relationship-centric approaches were more effective. This study expands previous research by validating the importance of starting end-of-life data planning with relationships and values, and highlights collaborative facilitation as a critical part of successful data planning approaches.
The “Colonial Impulse" of Natural Language Processing: An Audit of Bengali Sentiment Analysis Tools and Their Identity-based Biases Das, Dipto and Guha, Shion and Brubaker, Jed R. and Semaan, Bryan
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642669
While colonization has sociohistorically impacted people’s identities across various dimensions, those colonial values and biases continue to be perpetuated by sociotechnical systems. One category of sociotechnical systems–sentiment analysis tools–can also perpetuate colonial values and bias, yet less attention has been paid to how such tools may be complicit in perpetuating coloniality, although they are often used to guide various practices (e.g., content moderation). In this paper, we explore potential bias in sentiment analysis tools in the context of Bengali communities who have experienced and continue to experience the impacts of colonialism. Drawing on identity categories most impacted by colonialism amongst local Bengali communities, we focused our analytic attention on gender, religion, and nationality. We conducted an algorithmic audit of all sentiment analysis tools for Bengali, available on the Python package index (PyPI) and GitHub. Despite similar semantic content and structure, our analyses showed that in addition to inconsistencies in output from different tools, Bengali sentiment analysis tools exhibit bias between different identity categories and respond differently to different ways of identity expression. Connecting our findings with colonially shaped sociocultural structures of Bengali communities, we discuss the implications of downstream bias of sentiment analysis tools.
AI and the Afterlife Brubaker, Jed R. and Morris, Meredith Ringel and Doyle, Dylan Thomas and Fiesler, Casey and Gibbs, Martin and McGrenere, Joanna
Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3613905.3636321
AI technologies are likely to impact an array of existing practices (and give rise to a host of novel ones) around end-of-life planning, remembrance, and legacy in ways that will have profound legal, economic, emotional, and religious ramifications. At this critical moment of technological change, there is an opportunity for the HCI community to shape the discourse on this important topic through value-sensitive and community-centered approaches. This workshop will bring together a broad group of academics and practitioners with varied perspectives including HCI, AI, and other relevant disciplines (e.g., law, economics, religious studies, etc.) to support community-building, agenda-setting, and prototyping activities among scholars and practitioners interested in the nascent topic of how advances in AI will change socio-technical practices around death, remembrance, and legacy.
I’m Working on Erasing You, Just Don’t Have the Proper Tools: Supporting Online Identity Management After the End of Romantic Relationships Pinter, Anthony T. and Brubaker, Jed R.
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- DOI: 10.1145/3637343
After a break-up, people are left with data representative of their lost relationship - pictures, posts, and connections that exist because of that relationship. As part of breaking up and moving on, people often make decisions about managing that data. Prior work has identified two broad types of curatorial philosophies people adopt in data management: archivists and revisionists. However, what drives individuals to one approach remains unknown and is difficult to design sociotechnical systems for. Through focus group interviews with couples still together, we present a decision-making framework for data management. We outline factors that can influence individuals’ decision to act as an archivist or revisionist in the wake of a break-up. From our data and framework, we identify six implications for design to improve user experiences in the wake of a break-up, and from those implications, offer concrete suggestions for design for social media platforms.
"I Hate You. I Love You. I’m Sorry. I Miss You." Understanding Online Grief Expression Through Suicide Bereavement Letter-Writing Practices Doyle, Dylan Thomas and Brahm, Charlie Blue R. and Brubaker, Jed R.
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- DOI: 10.1145/3637346
When bereaved individuals seek online support in response to the suicide of a loved one, their expressions of grief take many forms. Although the intense grief expressions individuals bereaved by suicide commonly share in private therapeutic settings can be helpful in healing from traumatic loss, these same expressions may potentially cause harm to others when shared in a public online support community. In this study, we present a qualitative analysis of letters posted on the r/SuicideBereavement subreddit, and comments replying to those posts, to explore what diverse expressions of grief additionally demand of platform design. We find that letter posts contain potentially harmful grief expressions that, in this community, generate mutual support among community members. Informed by our findings, this study considers the design challenges for online platforms as they simultaneously support users receiving support and healing through sharing certain grief expressions, while also supporting users who will be harmed by exposure to those grief expressions. Taking inspiration from offline therapy modalities, we consider the design implications of creating specialized online grief support spaces for diverse grief expressions.
Safety and Community Context: Exploring a Transfeminist Approach to Sapphic Relationship Platforms DeVito, Michael Ann and Feuston, Jessica L. and Melder, Erika and Malloy, Christen and Ponder, Cade and Brubaker, Jed R.
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- DOI: 10.1145/3653694
Relationship platforms (e.g., dating apps) are crucial tools for sapphics (trans women, cisgender women, and nonbinary people who are attracted to other sapphics). However, current platforms are not designed in a way that accounts for sapphic lived experience, especially the lived experience of sapphics who hold multiple marginalized identity characteristics. Even on platforms that do exist for sapphics, transgender women and nonbinary people are often subject to discrimination, fetishization, and stigmatization. To aid in the design of platforms that better serve the needs of multiply marginalized sapphics, we engaged a diverse group of 25 sapphics in six rounds of community discussion on key topics for relationship platform design. Based on participant discussions, we identify key challenges when designing for multiply marginalized sapphics around relationship structures, gender and sexuality classification, and safety priorities for interaction. We present two design priorities alongside community-sourced design directions which can help future designers address these challenges: identity-centric safety and community-based information formats.
Algorithmic Subjectivities Baumer, Eric P. S. and Taylor, Alex S. and Brubaker, Jed R. and McGee, Micki
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- DOI: 10.1145/3660344
This paper considers how subjectivities are enlivened in algorithmic systems. We first review related literature to clarify how we see “subjectivities” as emerging through a tangled web of processes and actors. We then offer two case studies exemplifying the emergence of algorithmic subjectivities: one involving computational topic modeling of blogs written by parents with children on the autism spectrum, and one involving algorithmic moderation of social media content. Drawing on these case studies, we then articulate a series of qualities that characterizes algorithmic subjectivities. We also compare and contrast these qualities with a number of related concepts from prior literature to articulate how algorithmic subjectivities constitutes a novel theoretical contribution, as well as how it offers a focal lens for future empirical investigation and for design. In short, this paper points out how certain worlds are being made and/or being made possible via algorithmic systems, and it asks HCI to consider what other worlds might be possible.

2023

Queer Identities, Normative Databases: Challenges to Capturing Queerness On Wikidata Weathington, Katy and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1
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- DOI: 10.1145/3579517
The collection, organization, and retrieval of data about queer individuals and their identities challenge the creators and curators of highly structured database systems. While prior research in archival studies and demographics has examined processes of collecting and storing queer identities, they do not examine the complexities of highly democratized platforms that lack top-down mandates that often structure archival schemas. To examine the representation of queer people on open-platform databases, we performed a trace ethnography and thematic analysis of Wikidata, an open collaboration, highly structured database. We specifically examined the creation of, changes to, discussions around, and impacts of properties that encode queer identities, such assexual orientation andsex or gender. We found that changes often have unexpected impacts, that contributors struggled to determine vocabulary for queer identities which were accurate across the diverse cultural contexts of the Wikidata community, that the recording of queer identities could cause a stigmatizing effect for LGBTQ+ individuals, with further concerns of spreading rumors or outing closeted people, and that contributors proposing changes which would cause biased representations of queer people. Our analysis demonstrates inherent and unaddressed frictions when translating queer identities to the confines of a structured database. We conclude by discussing ways that the highly bottom-up, collaborative nature of platforms such as Wikidata, often seen as a major strength, can be vulnerable to individuals or small groups derailing and filibustering changes they disagree with on politically charged topics such as queer identities.
From Human to Data to Dataset: Mapping the Traceability of Human Subjects in Computer Vision Datasets Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Weathington, Katy and Mugunthan, Tarun and Denton, Emily and Fiesler, Casey
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1
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- DOI: 10.1145/3579488
Computer vision is a "data hungry" field. Researchers and practitioners who work on human-centric computer vision, like facial recognition, emphasize the necessity of vast amounts of data for more robust and accurate models. Humans are seen as a data resource which can be converted into datasets. The necessity of data has led to a proliferation of gathering data from easily available sources, including "public" data from the web. Yet the use of public data has significant ethical implications for the human subjects in datasets. We bridge academic conversations on the ethics of using publicly obtained data with concerns about privacy and agency associated with computer vision applications. Specifically, we examine how practices of dataset construction from public data-not only from websites, but also from public settings and public records-make it extremely difficult for human subjects to trace their images as they are collected, converted into datasets, distributed for use, and, in some cases, retracted. We discuss two interconnected barriers current data practices present to providing an ethics of traceability for human subjects: awareness and control. We conclude with key intervention points for enabling traceability for data subjects. We also offer suggestions for an improved ethics of traceability to enable both awareness and control for individual subjects in dataset curation practices.
Taxonomizing and Measuring Representational Harms: A Look at Image Tagging Katzman, Jared and Wang, Angelina and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Blodgett, Su Lin and Laird, Kristen and Wallach, Hanna and Barocas, Solon
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Digital Legacy: A Systematic Literature Review Doyle, Dylan Thomas and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2
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- DOI: 10.1145/3610059
To more effectively support the dying and bereaved in end-of-life contexts, over the past two decades HCI and social computing scholars have sought to understand digital legacy. In this paper, we argue that it is time to take stock of digital legacy scholarship, examining what we know, what gaps remain, and what areas are imperative for future work. Through a Grounded Theory Literature Review, we identify four foci in digital legacy research to date: how identity is navigated in the passing of digital legacy, how digital legacies are engaged with, how digital legacies are put to rest, and how technology interfaces with offline legacy technologies. Based on our analysis, we present a model depicting how digital legacy research examines a lifecycle of data as it is passed down. This model identifies that digital legacy data moves through three stages: encoding, accessing, and dispossessing. The model illustrates gaps in current research and charts possible inflection points for future social computing research. Specifically, we highlight the importance of multi-user and multi-generational networks of people in end-of-life scenarios. Additionally, the model exhibits emerging theoretical findings and major concepts in the nascent field of digital legacy research.

2022

Going beyond cyberbullying: Adolescent online safety and digital risks Pinter, Anthony T. and Ghosh, Arup Kumar and Wisniewski, Pamela J.
Cyberbullying and Digital Safety: Applying Global Research to Youth in India
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Behold the Once and Future Me: Online Identity After the End of a Romantic Relationship Pinter, Anthony T. and Brubaker, Jed R.
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- DOI: 10.1145/3555097
After a romantic relationship ends, individuals are left to deal with the digital remnants of the relationship. These possessions and connections pose difficulties for users – they are identity markers of an identity that one may no longer want legible to their online audiences. Further, they can cause upsetting moments that might impede moving on from the break-up. Through interviews with 11 women who had had a recent break-up, this empirical study examined how people managed their online identity after their break-up. We found that people took different actions towards their possessions and connections in service of creating a post-break-up identity. Using Brubaker & Hayes’s (2011) representational framework, we find users attempting to deal with connections as if they were possessions, creating tensions that our current systems are ill-suited to address. Turning to Hogan’s (2010) framework of the online identity ’exhibition’, we see users creating exhibitions for an audience of one – themselves – while also making decisions about who is allowed to see their public-facing exhibitions. We conclude by arguing that existing tools are ill-designed to support competing desires to present authentic past and future online identities and offer design suggestions for consideration.
Designing for the Bittersweet: Improving Sensitive Experiences with Recommender Systems Lustig, Caitlin and Konrad, Artie and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3502049
It is difficult to design systems that honor the complex and often contradictory emotions that can be surfaced by sensitive encounters with recommender systems. To explore the design and ethical considerations in this space, we interviewed 20 people who had recently seen sensitive content through Facebook’s Memories feature. Interviewees typically described how (1) expectedness, (2) context of viewing, and (3) what we describe as “affective sense-making” were important factors for how they perceived “bittersweet” content, a sensitizing concept from our interviews that we expand upon. To address these user needs, we pose provocations to support critical work in this area and we suggest that researchers and designers: (1) draw inspiration from no/low-technology artifacts, (2) use empirical research to identify contextual features that have negative impacts on users, and (3) conduct user studies on affective sense-making. CAUTION: This paper discusses difficult subject matter related to death and relationships.
"Do You Ladies Relate?": Experiences of Gender Diverse People in Online Eating Disorder Communities Feuston, Jessica L. and DeVito, Michael Ann and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Weathington, Katy and Benitez, Marianna and Perez, Bianca Z. and Sondheim, Lucy and Brubaker, Jed R.
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- DOI: 10.1145/3555145
The study of eating disorders online has a long tradition within CSCW and HCI scholarship. Research within this body of work highlights the types of content people with eating disorders post as well as the ways in which individuals use online spaces for acceptance, connection, and support. However, despite nearly a decade of research, online eating disorder scholarship in CSCW and HCI rarely accounts for the ways gender shapes online engagement. In this paper, we present empirical results from interviews with 14 trans people with eating disorders. Our findings illustrate how working with gender as an analytic lens allowed us to produce new knowledge about the embodiment of participation in online eating disorder spaces. We show how trans people with eating disorders use online eating disorder content to inform and set goals for their bodies and how, as gender minorities within online eating disorder spaces, trans people occupy marginal positions that make them more susceptible to harms, such as threats to eating disorder validity and gender authenticity. In our discussion, we consider life transitions in the context of gender and eating disorders and address how online eating disorder spaces operate as social transition machinery. We also call attention to the labor associated with online participation as a gender minority within online eating disorder spaces, outlining several design recommendations for supporting the ways trans people with eating disorders use online spaces. CONTENT WARNING: This paper is about the online experiences of trans people with eating disorders. We discuss eating disorders, related content (e.g., thinspiration) and practices (e.g., binge eating, restriction), and gender dysphoria. Please read with caution.
Researcher Wellbeing and Best Practices in Emotionally Demanding Research Feuston, Jessica L. and Bhattacharya, Arpita and Andalibi, Nazanin and Ankrah, Elizabeth A. and Erete, Sheena and Handel, Mark and Moncur, Wendy and Vieweg, Sarah and Brubaker, Jed R.
Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3491101.3503742
HCI researchers increasingly conduct emotionally demanding research in a variety of different contexts. Though scholarship has begun to address the experiences of HCI researchers conducting this work, there is a need to develop guidelines and best practices for researcher wellbeing. In this one-day CHI workshop, we will bring together a group of HCI researchers across sectors and career levels who conduct emotionally demanding research to discuss their experiences, self-care practices, and strategies for research. Based on these discussions, we will work with workshop attendees to develop best practices and guidelines for researcher wellbeing in the context of emotionally demanding HCI research; launch a repository of community-sourced resources for researcher wellbeing; document the experiences of HCI researchers conducting emotionally demanding research; and establish a community of HCI researchers conducting this type of work.

2021

Protest Privacy Recommendations: An Analysis of Digital Surveillance Circumvention Advice During Black Lives Matter Protests Wade, Kandrea and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’21
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- DOI: 10.1145/3411763.3451749

Auto-essentialization: Gender in automated facial analysis as extended colonial project Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Pape, Madeleine and Hanna, Alex
Big Data & Society 8, 2: 20539517211053712

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@article{Scheuerman2021-bigdata-autoessentalization,
  title = {Auto-essentialization: Gender in automated facial analysis as extended colonial project},
  author = {Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Pape, Madeleine and Hanna, Alex},
  journal = {Big Data \& Society},
  volume = {8},
  number = {2},
  pages = {20539517211053712},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England},
  tags = {identity-and-algorithms}
}

Revisiting Gendered Web Forms: An Evaluation of Gender Inputs with (Non-)Binary People Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Jiang, Jialun Aaron and Spiel, Katta and Brubaker, Jed R.
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21)
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- DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445742
A Framework of Severity for Harmful Content Online Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Jiang, Jialun Aaron and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2: Article 368
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- DOI: 10.1145/3479512
Do Datasets Have Politics? Disciplinary Values in Computer Vision Dataset Development Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Denton, Emily and Hanna, Alex
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2: Article 317 Best Paper Honorable Mention
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- DOI: 10.1145/3476058
Gender Recognition Technology Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Brubaker, Jed R.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies
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- DOI: 10.4135/9781544393858.n114
“You Can’t Sit With Us”: Exclusionary Pedagogy in AI Ethics Education Raji, Inioluwa Deborah and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Amironesei, Razvan
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT’21)
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- DOI: 10.1145/3442188.3445914
Entering Doors, Evading Traps: Benefits and Risks of Visibility During Transgender Coming Outs Pinter, Anthony T. and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3
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- DOI: 10.1145/3434181
Coming out and being visible online can offer transgender and/or non-binary people benefits not found elsewhere. However, it also can expose them to negative reactions and bad experiences. Through an analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews, we investigate the experiences of transgender and/or non-binary people coming out across social media sites (SMSs). We found that participants employed strategies around disclosure and visibility to limit the consequences of coming out and to access support. Using trans theory on visibility, we discuss how online spaces present metaphorical "doors" to resources, support, and recognition—but can also be "traps" for those that do not meet the expectations of the space. We discuss how visibility empowered participants to create "trapdoors" to new spaces within SMSs where they could create positive outcomes for themselves and their communities. We close with considerations for designers as they create online spaces, and present a broader call to action for the HCI community around designing online spaces.
Supporting Serendipity: Opportunities and Challenges for Human-AI Collaboration in Qualitative Analysis Jiang, Jialun Aaron and Wade, Kandrea and Fiesler, Casey and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, 1: Article 94
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- DOI: 10.1145/3449168
Understanding international perceptions of the severity of harmful content online Jiang, Jialun Aaron and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Fiesler, Casey and Brubaker, Jed R.
PLOS ONE 16, 8: 1–22
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- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256762
Living With Everyday Evaluations on Social Media Platforms Hallinan, Blake and Brubaker, Jed R.
International Journal of Communication 15 19
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Getting Your Facebook Affairs in Order: User Expectations in Post-mortem Profile Management Gach, Katie Z. and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, 1: Article 174
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Values (Mis)alignment: Exploring Tensions Between Platform and LGBTQ+ Community Design Values DeVito, Michael Ann and Walker, Ashley M. and Fernandez, Julia R.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, 1: Article 88
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- DOI: 10.1145/3449162
Queer in HCI: Strengthening the Community of LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research DeVito, Michael Ann and Lustig, Caitlin and Simpson, Ellen and Allison, Kimberley and Chuanromanee, Tya and Spiel, Katta and Ko, Amy and Rode, Jennifer and Dym, Brianna and Muller, Michael and Klaus Scheuerman, Morgan and Marie Walker, Ashley and Brubaker, Jed and Ahmed, Alex
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- DOI: 10.1145/3411763.3450403

Adaptive Folk Theorization as a Path to Algorithmic Literacy on Changing Platforms DeVito, Michael Ann
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2: Article 339 Best Paper Honorable Mention

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@article{DeVito-adaptivefolk2021,
  title = {Adaptive Folk Theorization as a Path to Algorithmic Literacy on Changing Platforms},
  author = {DeVito, Michael Ann},
  doi = {10.1145/3476080},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction},
  number = {CSCW2},
  pages = {Article 339},
  numpages = {35},
  volume = {5},
  month = oct,
  year = {2021},
  annote = {[top tier, Honorable Mention]},
  note = {Best Paper Honorable Mention}
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‘‘It’s Complicated’’: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability Bennett, Cynthia L. and Gleason, Cole and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Bigham, Jeffrey P. and Guo, Anhong and To, Alexandra
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21)
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- DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445498
Putting Tools in Their Place: The Role of Time and Perspective in Human-AI Collaboration for Qualitative Analysis Feuston, Jessica L. and Brubaker, Jed R.
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- DOI: 10.1145/3479856
Large datasets or ’big data’ corpora are typically the domain of quantitative scholars, who work with computational tools to derive numerical and descriptive insights. However, recent work asks how computational tools and other technologies, such as AI, can support qualitative scholars in developing deep and complex insights from large amounts of data. Addressing this question, Jiang et al. found that qualitative scholars are generally opposed to incorporating AI in their practices of data analysis. In this paper, we provide nuance to these earlier findings, showing that the stage of qualitative analysis matters for how scholars believe AI can and should be used. Through interviews with 15 CSCW and HCI qualitative researchers, we explore how AI can be included throughout different stages of qualitative analysis. We find that qualitative scholars are amenable to working with AI in diverse ways, such as for data exploration and coding, as long as it assists rather than automates their analytic work practice. Based on our analysis, we discuss how incorporating AI into qualitative research can shift some analytic practices, and how designing for human-AI collaboration in qualitative analysis necessitates considering tradeoffs in scale, abstraction, and task delegation. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms; Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods.

2020

Harm and Data Science: Framing Negative Human Outcomes as a Data Science Problem Weathington, K. and Scheuerman, M. K.
Workshop on Interrogating Data Science at CSCW 2020
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How We’ve Taught Algorithms to See Identity: Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial Analysis Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Wade, Kandrea and Lustig, Caitlin and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW1: Article 58 Best Paper Honorable Mention

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DOI: 10.1145/3392866

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  title = {How {We’ve} {Taught} {Algorithms} to {See} {Identity}: {Constructing} {Race} and {Gender} in {Image} {Databases} for {Facial} {Analysis}},
  author = {Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Wade, Kandrea and Lustig, Caitlin and Brubaker, Jed R.},
  doi = {10.1145/3392866},
  journal = {Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.},
  number = {CSCW1},
  pages = {Article 58},
  volume = {4},
  year = {2020},
  tags = {identity-and-algorithms, marginalization-and-safety, positionalML},
  annote = {Best Paper Award},
  note = {Best Paper Honorable Mention}
}

P4KxSpotify: A Dataset of Pitchfork Music Reviews and Spotify Musical Features Pinter, A. T. and Paul, J. M. and Smith, J. and Brubaker, J. R.
ICWSM 2020

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3603330
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@inproceedings{Pinter2020-icwsm,
  author = {Pinter, A. T. and Paul, J. M. and Smith, J. and Brubaker, J. R.},
  booktitle = {ICWSM 2020},
  title = {P4KxSpotify: {A} {Dataset} of {Pitchfork} {Music} {Reviews} and {Spotify} {Musical} {Features}},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3603330},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3603330},
  dataset = {https://zenodo.org/record/3603330#.XheASC3MzO},
  year = {2020}
}

Characterizing Community Guidelines on Social Media Platforms Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and Middler, Skyler and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey
CSCW 2020 Companion
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Identifying and Addressing Design and Policy Challenges in Online Content Moderation Jiang, Jialun "Aaron"
In CHI 2020 Doctoral Consortium
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Understanding Law Enforcement and Common Peoples’ Perspectives on Designing Explainable Crime Mapping Algorithms Haque, MD Romael and Weathington, Katherine and Chudzik, Joseph and Guha, Shion
Poster presented at CSCW 2020
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Designing Postmortem Profile Deletion as a Community Ritual Gach, Katie Z. and Brubaker, Jed R.
Workshop on HCI at End-of-Life and Beyond at the 2020 ACM SIGCHI Conference
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Experiences of Trust in Postmortem Profile Management Gach, Katie Z. and Brubaker, Jed R.
ACM Trans. Soc. Comput. 3, 1: Article 2

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@article{Gach2020TSC,
  title = {Experiences of {T}rust in {P}ostmortem {P}rofile {M}anagement},
  author = {Gach, Katie Z. and Brubaker, Jed R.},
  doi = {10.1145/3365525},
  journal = {ACM Trans. Soc. Comput.},
  number = {1},
  pages = {Article 2},
  numpages = {26},
  volume = {3},
  month = feb,
  year = {2020},
  tags = {death-sns}
}

How to Delete the Dead: Honoring Negative Affective Experiences with Postmortem Data Gach, Katie Z.
In CSCW 2020 Doctoral Consortium
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Conformity of Eating Disorders through Content Moderation Feuston, Jessica L and Taylor, Alex S and Piper, Anne Marie
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 4, CSCW: 1–28 Best Paper Honorable Mention
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Defining Data: Questions of Numerical Facts Dietrich, M. and Scheuerman, M. and Weathington, K.
Workshop on Interrogating Data Science at CSCW 2020
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Bringing the People Back In: Contesting Benchmark Machine Learning Datasets Denton, Emily and Hanna, Alex and Amironesei, Razvan and Smart, Andrew and Nicole, Hilary and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus
In the ICML Workshop on Participatory Approaches to Machine Learning
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Queer in HCI: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research Across Domains DeVito, Michael Ann and Walker, Ashley Marie and Lustig, Caitlin and Ko, Amy J. and Spiel, Katta and Ahmed, Alex A. and Allison, Kimberley and Scheuerman, Morgan and Dym, Briana and Brubaker, Jed R. and Simpson, Ellen and Bagalkot, Naveen and Raval, Noopur and Muller, Michael and Rode, Jennifer and Gray, Mary L.
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Design, Implementation, and Reflections on the Teaching of Computer Programming Modules to Underrepresented Students Booth, K. M. and Pena, J. and Eikey and V., E. and Quigley, A. and Pinter, A. T. and Sanchez, J.
Presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education
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2019

Researcher Positionality for Qualitative Interviews Within Diverse Populations Wade, Kandrea
In the CSCW 2019 Workshop on Qualitative Research for CSCW: Challenges and Opportunities
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Exploring the Intersection of Philosophy and HCI Su, Norman Makoto and Kaptelinin, Victor and Bardzell, Jeffrey and Bardzell, Shaowen and Brubaker, Jed R. and Light, Ann and Svanaes, Dag
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’19
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Queer(ing) HCI: Moving Forward in Theory and Practice Spiel, Katta and Ahmed, Alex and Rode, Jennifer A. and Brubaker, Jed R. and Kannabiran, Gopinaath and Keyes, Os and Walker, Ashley Marie and DeVito, Michael A. and Birnholtz, Jeremy and Brulé, Emeline and Light, Ann and Barlas, Pınar and Hardy, Jean
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’19
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How Computers See Gender: An Evaluation of Gender Classification in Commercial Facial Analysis and Image Labeling Services Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Paul, Jacob M and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW: Article 144
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The Black at the End of the Rainbow: Online Discrimination Among LGBTQ African Americans Rivera, E. J. and Poldruhi, M. and Ward, C. R. and Jenkins II, G. E. and Nichols III, E. and Pinter, A. T.
iConference 2019
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"Am I Never Going to Be Free of All This Crap?": Upsetting Encounters With Algorithmically Curated Content About Ex-Partners Pinter, Anthony T. and Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and Gach, Katie Z. and Sidwell, Melanie M. and Dykes, James E. and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW: Article 70
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Designing and Carrying Out Conscientious Research With Marginalized Groups Pinter, A. T. and Scheuerman, M. K. and Brubaker, J. R.
In the CSCW 2019 Workshop on Social Technologies for Digital Wellbeing Among Marginalized Communities
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Technological Frames and User Innovation: Evidence from Online Community Moderation Teams Kiene, Charles and Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and Hill, Benjamin Mako
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW: Article 44
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Moderation Challenges in Voice-based Online Communities on Discord Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and Kiene, Charles and Middler, Skyler and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW: Article 55
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Unexpected expectations: Public reaction to the Facebook emotional contagion study Hallinan, Blake and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey
New Media & Society
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How to ethically conduct online platform-based research remains an unsettled issue and the source of continued controversy. The Facebook emotional contagion study, in which researchers altered Facebook News Feeds to determine whether exposure to emotional content influences a user’s mood, has been one focal point of these discussions. The intense negative reaction by the media and public came as a surprise to those involved—but what prompted this reaction? We approach the Facebook study as a mediated controversy that reveals disconnects between how scholars, technologists, and the public understand platform-based research. We examine the controversy from the bottom up, analyzing public reactions expressed in comments on news articles. Our analysis reveals fundamental disagreements about what Facebook is and what a user’s relationship to it should be. We argue that these divergent responses emphasize the contextual nature of technology and research ethics, and conclude with a relational and contextual approach to ethical decision-making.
What to Do When You Find Out Dr. Wesch was Wrong Gach, Katie Z.
Keynote at the Sapiens Symposium at the Kansas State University Department of Anthropology
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Qualitative Methods for CSCW: Challenges and Opportunities Fiesler, Casey and Brubaker, Jed R. and Forte, Andrea and Guha, Shion and McDonald, Nora and Muller, Michael
Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW ’19
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"Coming Out Okay": Community Narratives for LGBTQ Identity Recovery Work Dym, Brianna and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey and Bryan, Semaan
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW: Article 154
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Volunteer Work: Mapping the Future of Moderation Research C., Kiene and Jhaver, S. and E., Chandrasekharan and Dosono, B. and Dym, B. and Gilbert, S. and Jiang, J.A. and Lo, K. and J., Seering and Shores, K. and Wohn, D.Y.
Workshop Organized at CSCW 2019
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Orienting to Networked Grief: Situated Perspectives of Communal Mourning on Facebook Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R. and Mazmanian, Melissa
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW: Article 27
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2018

The Changing Contours of “Participation” in Data-driven, Algorithmic Ecosystems: Challenges, Tactics, and an Agenda Wolf, Christine T. and Zhu, Haiyi and Bullard, Julia and Lee, Min Kyung and Brubaker, Jed R.
CSCW 2018
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Gender is not a Boolean: Towards Designing Algorithms to Understand Complex Human Identities Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Brubaker, Jed R.
In Participation+Algorithms Workshop at CSCW 2018.
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Algorithmic methods are increasingly used to identify and categorize human characteristics. A range of human identities, such as gender, race, and sexual orientation, are becoming interwoven with systems. We discuss the case of automatic gender recognition technologies that algorithmically assign binary gender categories. Based on our previous work with transgender participants, we discuss the ways current gender recognition systems misrepresent complex gender identities and undermine safety. We describe plans to build on this by conducting participatory design workshops with designers and potential users to develop improved methods for conceptualizing gender identity in algorithms.

Safe Spaces and Safe Places: Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Branham, Stacy M. and Hamidi, Foad
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 2, CSCW: 155:1–155:27

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DOI: 10.1145/3274424

@article{Scheuerman2018b,
  author = {Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Branham, Stacy M. and Hamidi, Foad},
  title = {Safe Spaces and Safe Places: Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People},
  journal = {Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.},
  issue_date = {November 2018},
  volume = {2},
  number = {CSCW},
  month = nov,
  year = {2018},
  issn = {2573-0142},
  pages = {155:1--155:27},
  articleno = {155},
  numpages = {27},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3274424},
  doi = {10.1145/3274424},
  acmid = {3274424},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  tags = {marginalization-and-safety}
}

Returning Control to the User: Digital Identity in a Post-Capitalist Future Pinter, Anthony and Brubaker, Jed R.
CHI 2018 Workshop: “Grand Visions” for Post-Capitalist HCI
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"The Perfect One": Understanding Communication Practices and Challenges with Animated GIFs Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and Fiesler, Casey and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 2, CSCW: Article 80
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Animated GIFs are increasingly popular in text-based communication. Finding the perfect GIF can make conversations funny, interesting, and engaging, but GIFs also introduce potentials for miscommunication. Through 24 in-depth qualitative interviews, this empirical, exploratory study examines the nuances of communication practices with animated GIFs to better understand why and how GIFs can send unintentional messages. We find participants leverage contexts like source material and interpersonal relationship to find the perfect GIFs for different communication scenarios, while these contexts are also the primary reason for miscommunication and some technical usability issues. This paper concludes with a discussion of the important role that different types of context play in the use and interpretations of GIFs, and argues that nonverbal communication tools should account for complex contexts and common ground that communication media rely on.
Tending Unmarked Graves: Classification of Post-mortem Content on Social Media Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 2, CSCW: Article 81
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User-generated content is central to social computing scholarship. However, researchers and practitioners often presume that these users are alive. Failing to account for mortality is problematic in social media where an increasing number of profiles represent those who have died. Identifying mortality can empower designers to better manage content and support the bereaved, as well as promote high-quality data science. Based on a computational linguistic analysis of post-mortem social media profiles and content, we report on classifiers developed to detect mortality and show that mortality can be determined after the first few occurrences of post-mortem content. Applying our classifiers to content from two other platforms also provided good results. Finally, we discuss trade-offs between models that emphasize pre- vs. post-mortem precision in this sensitive context. These results mark a first step toward identifying mortality at scale, and show how designers and scientists can attend to mortality in their work.
Describing and Classifying Post-Mortem Content on Social Media Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and Brubaker, Jed
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2018)
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As the quantity of user profiles on social media grows, so does the number of post-mortem profiles. In this paper, we present a computational linguistic analysis of post-mortem social media profiles. Specifically, we provide an analysis of pre- vs. post-mortem language use, followed by a description of classifiers we developed that can accurately classify the mortality of social media profiles. These results shed initial lights into the ways in which people speak to the dead, and mark a first step toward accurately identifying mortality on a large scale.

Righteous Devils: Unpacking the Ethics of Hacktivism Hanner, Ethan and Brubaker, Jed R.
CHI 2018 Workshop on Understanding Bad Actors

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@inproceedings{hannerRighteousDevilsUnpacking2018,
  title = {Righteous {{Devils}}: {{Unpacking}} the Ethics of Hacktivism},
  booktitle = {{{CHI}} 2018 {{Workshop}} on {{Understanding Bad Actors}}},
  author = {Hanner, Ethan and Brubaker, Jed R.},
  year = {2018},
  annote = {[equal]},
  keywords = {workshop}
}

Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism?: The Social Implications of Embedded Gender Recognition Systems Hamidi, Foad and Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus and Branham, Stacy M.
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Automatic Gender Recognition (AGR) refers to various computational methods that aim to identify an individual’s gender by extracting and analyzing features from images, video, and/or audio. Applications of AGR are increasingly being explored in domains such as security, marketing, and social robotics. However, little is known about stakeholders’ perceptions and attitudes towards AGR and how this technology might disproportionately affect vulnerable communities. To begin to address these gaps, we interviewed 13 transgender individuals, including three transgender technology designers, about their perceptions and attitudes towards AGR. We found that transgender individuals have overwhelmingly negative attitudes towards AGR and fundamentally question whether it can accurately recognize such a subjective aspect of their identity. They raised concerns about privacy and potential harms that can result from being incorrectly gendered, or misgendered, by technology. We present a series of recommendations on how to accommodate gender diversity when designing new digital systems.
Reddit Rules! Characterizing an Ecosystem of Governance Fiesler, Casey and Jiang, Jialun "Aaron" and McCann, Joshua and Frye, Kyle and Brubaker, Jed
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2018)
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The social sharing and news aggregation site Reddit provides a unique example of an ecosystem of community-created rules. Not only do individual subreddits create and enforce their own regulations, but site-wide guidelines and norms may also influence behavior. This paper reports on a mixed-methods study of 100,000 subreddits and their rules. Our findings characterize the types of rules across Reddit, the frequency of rules at scale, and patterns of rules based on subreddit characteristics. We find that rules appear to be context-dependent for individual subreddits but also share common characteristics across the site. Taken together, our findings provide a rich description of this ecosystem of rules, motivating further inquiry into underlying mechanisms for rule formation and enforcement in online communities.
“theyre all trans sharon”: Authoring gender in video game fan fiction Dym, Brianna and Brubaker, Jed and Fiesler, Casey
Game Studies 18, 3
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2017

Studying User Perceptions and Experiences with Algorithms Proferes, Nicholas and Centivany, Alissa and Lustig, Caitlin and Brubaker, Jed R.
ICWSM 2017 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
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Understanding Diverse Interpretations of Animated GIFs Jiang, Jialun “Aaron” and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA ’17

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DOI: 10.1145/3027063.3053139

@inproceedings{Jiang2017,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Jiang, Jialun “Aaron” and Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '17},
  doi = {10.1145/3027063.3053139},
  isbn = {9781450346566},
  keywords = {gifeels},
  tags = {gifeels},
  pages = {1726--1732},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {{Understanding Diverse Interpretations of Animated GIFs}},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3027063.3053139},
  year = {2017}
}

Exploring timelines of confirmed suicide incidents through social media Huang, Xiaolei and Xing, Linzi and Brubaker, Jed R. and Paul, Michael J
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)
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"Control your emotions, Potter": An Analysis of Grief Policing on Facebook in Response to Celebrity Death Gach, Katie Z. and Fiesler, Casey and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW: Article 47
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As social media platforms become a larger part of sharing life, they have by necessity become a part of sharing death. In life, pop culture fans can have parasocial (one-sided, mediated) relationships with celebrities. Yet when fans of departed celebrities express their grief in public comment threads, conversations often result in disagreements about how to grieve. These disagreements consistently appear in response to the deaths of public figures, and have been broadly labeled "grief policing." We performed a thematic analysis of public Facebook comments responding to the deaths of Alan Rickman, David Bowie, and Prince. Our findings describe prominent grief policing practices and explain how commenters may be importing norms from other contexts when shared spaces consist of transient interactions that make norm formation difficult. Our findings contribute to a broader understanding of how conflicting norms affect discourse in transient online spaces. Approaching online incivility through a lens of conflicting social norm enforcement may open doors for improvements in public discourse online.

Media, Meaning, and Context Loss in Ephemeral Communication Platforms Cavalcanti, Luiz Henrique C.B. and Pinto, Alita and Brubaker, Jed R. and Dombrowski, Lynn S.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW ’17

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DOI: 10.1145/2998181.2998266

@inproceedings{Cavalcanti2017,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Cavalcanti, Luiz Henrique C.B. and Pinto, Alita and Brubaker, Jed R. and Dombrowski, Lynn S.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW '17},
  doi = {10.1145/2998181.2998266},
  file = {:Users/whatknows/Documents/Google Drive/Mendeley/Cavalcanti et al/Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW '17/Cavalcanti et al. - 2017 - Media, Meaning, and Context Loss in Ephemeral Communication Platforms.pdf:pdf},
  isbn = {9781450343350},
  pages = {1934--1945},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  tags = {socialmedia, snapchat},
  title = {{Media, Meaning, and Context Loss in Ephemeral Communication Platforms}},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2998181.2998266},
  year = {2017}
}

"Is Someone There? Do They Have a Gun": How Visual Information About Others Can Improve Personal Safety Management for Blind Individuals Branham, Stacy M. and Abdolrahmani, Ali and Easley, William and Scheuerman, Morgan and Ronquillo, Erick and Hurst, Amy
Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
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Post-userism Baumer, Eric P S and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’17

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DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025740

@inproceedings{Baumer2017,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Baumer, Eric P S and Brubaker, Jed R.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17},
  doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025740},
  isbn = {9781450346559},
  keywords = {post-userism},
  tags = {post-userism},
  pages = {6291--6303},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {{Post-userism}},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3025453.3025740},
  year = {2017}
}

Information Science at CU Boulder Aspray, William and Barker, Lecia and Brubaker, Jed and Devendorf, Laura and Keegan, Brian and Palen, Leysia and Paul, Michael and Szafir, Danielle and Roque, Ricarose and Robinson, Rick and Voida, Amy and Voida, Stephen
interactions 24, 4: 18–21
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2016

Digital footprints and changing networks during online identity transitions Haimson, O.L. and Brubaker, J.R. and Dombrowski, L. and Hayes, G.R.
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
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Digital artifacts on social media can challenge individuals during identity transitions, particularly those who prefer to delete, separate from, or hide data that are representative of a past identity. This work investigates concerns and practices reported by transgender people who transitioned while active on Facebook. We analyze open-ended survey responses from 283 participants, highlighting types of data considered problematic when separating oneself from a past identity, and challenges and strategies people engage in when managing personal data in a networked environment. We find that people shape their digital footprints in two ways: by editing the self-presentational data that is representative of a prior identity, and by managing the configuration of people who have access to that self-presentation. We outline the challenging interplay between shifting identities, social networks, and the data that suture them together. We apply these results to a discussion of the complexities of managing and forgetting the digital past.

Understanding Human-Data Relationships: Data as Property Fiesler, Casey and Brubaker, Jed R.
Presented at the Workshop on Human Centered Data Science at CSCW 2016

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@inproceedings{fieslerUnderstandingHumanDataRelationships2016,
  title = {Understanding {{Human}}-{{Data Relationships}}: {{Data}} as {{Property}}},
  booktitle = {Presented at the {{Workshop}} on {{Human Centered Data Science}} at {{CSCW}} 2016},
  author = {Fiesler, Casey and Brubaker, Jed R.},
  year = {2016},
  annote = {[equal]},
  keywords = {workshop}
}

Penseive box: Themes for digital memorialization practices Chaudhari, C. and Prakash, A. and Tsaasan, A.M. and Brubaker, J.R. and Tanenbaum, J.
TEI 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction
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In this work, we describe several themes that can be useful for designing tangible technology in the context of death and mourning. We explore the effectiveness of physical and digital artifacts in the process honoring a loved one who has passed away. We employ a speculative prototype called Penseive Box to explore the intersection of tangible digital memorialization practices. Using this prototype to elicit reflections on personal memorialization practices, we interviewed several individuals who had recently lost a loved one, and present the results of our initial analysis here.

Understanding Human-Data Relationships: Data as Personhood Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey
Presented at the Workshop on Human Centered Data Science at CSCW 2016

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@inproceedings{brubakerUnderstandingHumanDataRelationships2016,
  title = {Understanding {{Human}}-{{Data Relationships}}: {{Data}} as {{Personhood}}},
  booktitle = {Presented at the {{Workshop}} on {{Human Centered Data Science}} at {{CSCW}} 2016},
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R. and Fiesler, Casey},
  year = {2016},
  annote = {[equal]},
  keywords = {workshop}
}

Legacy Contact: Designing and Implementing Post-mortem Stewardship at Facebook Brubaker, Jed R. and Callison-Burch, Vanessa
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’16
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Post-mortem profiles on social network sites serve as both an archive of the deceased person’s life and a gathering place for friends and loved ones. Many existing systems utilize inheritance as a model for post-mortem data management. However, the social and networked nature of personal data on social media, as well as the memorializing practices in which friends engage, indicate that other approaches are necessary. In this paper, we articulate the design choices made throughout the development of Legacy Contact, a post-mortem data management solution designed and deployed at Facebook. Building on the duties and responsibilities identified by Brubaker et al., we describe how Legacy Contact was designed to honor last requests, provide information surrounding death, preserve the memory of the deceased, and facilitate memorializing practices. We provide details around the design of the Legacy Contact selection process, the functionality provided to legacy contacts after accounts have been memorialized, and changes made to post-mortem profiles.
Visibility in digital spaces: Controlling personal information online Brubaker, J.R. and Kaye, J. and Schoenebeck, S. and Vertesi, J.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
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Individuals are increasingly visible in online spaces. Posting content to social media, browsing websites, and interacting with friends are all acts that render a person visible to other individuals, networks, and corporations. At the same time, these behaviors are being logged, archived, and aggregated in a variety of unexpected and emerging ways. In this panel, we explore the tensions that arise around controlling personal information online. We do so through a series of case studies around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) identities, children, personal data exchange, and advertising. In each, we consider the politics of visibility around personal, family, social, and community identities, especially in the context of marginalized or scrutinized populations and experiences. We aim to generate debate about appropriate sharing behaviors online and to further an agenda that prioritizes greater control of personal information online.

2015

’Is’ to ’Was’: Coordination and Commemoration on Posthumous Wikipedia Biographies Keegan, Brian C. and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW ’15

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DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675238

@inproceedings{Keegan2015,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Keegan, Brian C. and Brubaker, Jed R.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work {\&} Social Computing - CSCW '15},
  doi = {10.1145/2675133.2675238},
  isbn = {9781450329224},
  keywords = {death-sns,wikipedia},
  tags = {death-sns,wikipedia},
  pages = {533--546},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {{'Is' to 'Was': Coordination and Commemoration on Posthumous Wikipedia Biographies}},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2675133.2675238},
  year = {2015}
}

Facebooking in "face": Complex identities meet simple databases Handel, M. and Bivens, R. and Brubaker, J.R. and Haimson, O.L. and Lingel, J. and Yarosh, S.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
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- DOI: 10.1145/2685553.2699337
Online systems often struggle to account for the complicated self-presentation and disclosure needs of those with complex identities or specialized anonymity. Using the lenses of gender, recovery, and performance, our proposed panel explores the tensions that emerge when the richness and complexity of individual personalities and subjectivities run up against design norms that imagine identity as simplistic or one-dimensional. These models of identity not only limit the ways individuals can express their own identities, but also establish norms for other users about what to expect, causing further issues when the inevitable dislocations do occur. We discuss the challenges in translating identity into these systems, and how this is further marred by technical requirements and normative logics that structure cultures and practices of databases, algorithms and computer programming.
Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook Haimson, Oliver L and Brubaker, Jed R. and Dombrowski, Lynn and Hayes, Gillian R.
CSCW ’15: 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing Proceedings
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Social and Personal Disclosure in a Location-Based Real Time Dating App Fitzpatrick, Colin and Birnholtz, Jeremy and Brubaker, Jed R.
2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
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Why study technology non-use? Baumer, Eric P.S. and Ames, Morgan G. and Burrell, Jenna and Brubaker, Jed R. and Dourish, Paul
First Monday 20, 11

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DOI: 10.5210/fm.v20i11.6310

@article{Baumer2016,
  author = {Baumer, Eric P.S. and Ames, Morgan G. and Burrell, Jenna and Brubaker, Jed R. and Dourish, Paul},
  doi = {10.5210/fm.v20i11.6310},
  issn = {13960466},
  journal = {First Monday},
  keywords = {non-use,post-userism},
  tags = {non-use,post-userism},
  month = nov,
  number = {11},
  title = {{Why study technology non-use?}},
  url = {http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6310},
  volume = {20},
  year = {2015}
}

On the importance and implications of studying technology non-use Baumer, E.P.S. and Burrell, J. and Ames, M.G. and Brubaker, J.R. and Dourish, P.
Interactions 22, 2
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- DOI: 10.1145/2723667
Non-use goes beyond the absence of technology. Use and non-use are not binary opposites but represent different configurations of socio-technical practice. Studying these socio-technical configurations opens up central questions around ’the user’ in HCI. A workshop has been organized at ACM?s CHI 2014 conference to address this issue. The participants included 22 individuals from departments and schools of information, communication, computer science, media studies, and other areas. The workshop organizers reflect on key topics, themes, and questions raised by participants, discussing how they might provide feedback to the broader HCI community.

2014

Understanding Loneliness in Social Awareness Streams: Expressions and Responses Kivran-Swaine, Funda and Ting, Jeremy and Brubaker, Jed R. and Teodoro, Rannie and Naaman, Mor
ICWSM

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@inproceedings{kivran2014understanding,
  address = {Ann Arbor, MI},
  author = {Kivran-Swaine, Funda and Ting, Jeremy and Brubaker, Jed R. and Teodoro, Rannie and Naaman, Mor},
  booktitle = {ICWSM},
  keywords = {emotion,lonliness,sns,social media},
  tags = {emotion,social media,sns,lonliness},
  publisher = {AAAI},
  title = {{Understanding Loneliness in Social Awareness Streams: Expressions and Responses}},
  year = {2014}
}

DDFSeeks same: sexual health-related language in online personal ads for men who have sex with men Haimson, Oliver L and Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R
Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’14

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DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557077

@inproceedings{Haimson2014,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Haimson, Oliver L and Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14},
  doi = {10.1145/2556288.2557077},
  isbn = {9781450324731},
  keywords = {craigslist,identity,lgbt},
  tags = {identity,craigslist,lgbt},
  pages = {1615--1624},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {{DDFSeeks same: sexual health-related language in online personal ads for men who have sex with men}},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2556288.2557077},
  year = {2014}
}

Stewarding a Legacy: Responsibilities and Relationships in the Management of Post-mortem Data Brubaker, Jed R. and Dombrowski, Lynn S. and Gilbert, Anita M. and Kusumakaulika, Nafiri and Hayes, Gillian R.
Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’14
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- DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557059
This paper extends research on the giving and inheriting of digital artifacts by examining social network site accounts post-mortem. Given the important role that social network sites play in online bereavement practices, we conducted a series of in-depth qualitative interviews to explore issues around inheritance and post-mortem data management of Facebook accounts. We found that participants focused less on ownership of the data, and instead on the duties and potential conflicts associated with maintaining an account post-mortem. Subsequently, we argue for ’stewardship’ as an alternative to inheritance for framing post-mortem data management practices. Analysis of post-mortem data management activities highlights how stewards are accountable and responsible to the deceased and various survivors. However, weighing competing responsibilities is complicated by varied relationships with disparate survivors, as well as the inability to consult with the deceased. Based on our findings, we claim that post-mortem solutions need to account for the needs of stewards in addition to those of the deceased and survivors. We suggest that a model of stewardship better accounts for the interpersonal responsibilities that accompany online data than inheritance alone.
Departing glances: A sociotechnical account of ’leaving’ Grindr Brubaker, J. R. and Ananny, M. and Crawford, K.
New Media & Society 1461444814542311–
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- DOI: 10.1177/1461444814542311
Grindr is a popular location-based social networking application for smartphones, predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr. Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular moment, but a process involving layered social and technical acts - that understandings of and departures from location-based media are bound up with an individual’s location. Accounts of leaving Grindr destabilize normative definitions of both Grindr’ and leaving’, exposing a set of relational possibilities and spatial arrangements within and around which people move. We conclude with implications for the study of non-use and technological departure.
Identity, identification and identifiability: The Language of Self-Presentation on a Location-Based Mobile Dating App Birnholtz, Jeremy and Fitzpatrick, Colin and Handel, Mark and Brubaker, Jed R.
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices & services - MobileHCI ’14
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- DOI: 10.1145/2628363.2628406
Refusing, Limiting, Departing: Why We Should Study Technology Non-use Baumer, Eric P. S. and Ames, Morgan G. and Brubaker, Jed R. and Burrell, Jenna and Dourish, Paul
Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA ’14
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- DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2559224
In contrast to most research in HCI, this workshop focuses on non-use, that is, situations where people do not use computing technology. Using a reflexive preworkshop activity and discussion-oriented sessions, we will consider the theories, methods, foundational texts, and central research questions in the study of non-use. In addition to a special issue proposal, we expect the research thread brought to the fore in this workshop will speak to foundational questions of use and the user in HCI
Death, Memorialization, and Social Media: A Platform Perspective for Personal Archives Acker, Amelia and Brubaker, Jed R.
Archivaria 77
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2013

What do you see in the cloud? Understanding the cloud-based user experience through practices Tang, John C. and Brubaker, Jed R. and Marshall, Catherine C.
INTERACT ’13: Proceedings of IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
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- DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_47
End users have begun to incorporate cloud-based services into their collaborative practices. What spurs and constrains this adoption? Are the cloud services understood adequately and used effectively? How might we intervene to promote a better connection between user practices and cloud services? In this study, we focus on collaborative practices that surround the adoption, use, and understanding of two popular, but sometimes contrasting, cloud services for creating and sharing content: Dropbox and Google Docs. We conducted 22 in-depth interviews with people who used these services, including collaborators who used the services together, and people who had migrated from Google Docs to Google Drive. We found that users thought of the cloud in terms of the practices it helped them accomplish. Their understanding of the cloud was often shaped by the particular file storage and sharing technologies the cloud was re-placing (remediation). Furthermore, collaborating with others through the cloud sometimes revealed different assumptions about how the cloud worked, leading users to develop socially negotiated practices around their use of the cloud. We use this analysis to identify some specific opportunities for designers to help users build more accurate conceptual models of the cloud and use its capabili-ties more fully: (1) when users are adopting the cloud to enact a practice; (2) when users are replacing an existing technology with the cloud; and (3) when users are encountering others’ practices through collaboration.
Detecting cooking state with gas sensors during dry cooking Hirano, Sen H. and Brubaker, Jed R. and Patterson, Donald J. and Hayes, Gillian R.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - UbiComp ’13
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- DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493523
Using Mobile Technologies to Support Students in Work Transition Programs Hayes, Gillian R. and Yeganyan, Michael T. and Brubaker, Jed R. and O’Neal, Linda and Hosaflook, Stephen W.
Technology Tools for Students with Autism: Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning
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It takes a network to get dinner: designing location-based systems to address local food needs Dombrowski, Lynn and Brubaker, Jed R. and Hirano, Sen H. and Mazmanian, Melissa and Hayes, Gillian R.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - UbiComp ’13
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- DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493493

Beyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R. and Dourish, Paul
The Information Society 29, 3: 152–163

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DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2013.777300

@article{Brubaker2013,
  address = {San Diego, CA, USA},
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R. and Dourish, Paul},
  doi = {10.1080/01972243.2013.777300},
  issn = {0197-2243},
  journal = {The Information Society},
  keywords = {death-sns,stewardship},
  tags = {death-sns,stewardship},
  month = may,
  number = {3},
  pages = {152--163},
  title = {{Beyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning}},
  url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01972243.2013.777300},
  volume = {29},
  year = {2013}
}

2012

Focusing on shared experiences: moving beyond the camera in video communication Brubaker, Jed R. and Venolia, Gina and Tang, John C.
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference on - DIS ’12

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DOI: 10.1145/2317956.2317973

@inproceedings{Brubaker2012a,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R. and Venolia, Gina and Tang, John C.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference on - DIS '12},
  doi = {10.1145/2317956.2317973},
  file = {::},
  isbn = {9781450312103},
  keywords = {cscw,mixed methods study,personal communication,professional communication,shared experiences,video chat,video communication,video conference},
  tags = {cscw},
  month = jun,
  pages = {96},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {{Focusing on shared experiences: moving beyond the camera in video communication}},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2317956.2317973},
  year = {2012}
}

Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media Brubaker, Jed R. and Kivran-Swaine, F and Taber, L. and Hayes, Gillian R.
Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

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@inproceedings{Brubaker2012,
  address = {Dublin, Ireland},
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R. and Kivran-Swaine, F and Taber, L. and Hayes, Gillian R.},
  booktitle = {Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media},
  editor = {Breslin, John G. and Ellison, Nicole B. and Shanahan, James G. and Tufekci, Zeynep},
  keywords = {Full Papers,death-sns},
  tags = {death-sns},
  pages = {42--49},
  publisher = {The AAAI Press},
  title = {{Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media}},
  url = {http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM12/paper/viewFile/4622/4965},
  year = {2012}
}

2011

Lost in Translation: Three Challenges for the Collection and Use of Data in Personal Informatics Brubaker, Jed R. and Hirano, Sen H. and Hayes, Gillian R.
Presented at the CHI 2011 Workshop on Personal Informatics & HCI: Design, Theory, & Social Implications
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"We will never forget you [online]": an empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R.
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW ’11

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DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958843

@inproceedings{Brubaker2011,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '11},
  doi = {10.1145/1958824.1958843},
  isbn = {9781450305563},
  keywords = {death-sns},
  tags = {death-sns},
  pages = {123--132},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {{"We will never forget you [online]": an empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments}},
  url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1958824.1958843},
  year = {2011}
}

SELECT * FROM USER: infrastructure and socio-technical representation Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R.
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW ’11

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DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958881

@inproceedings{Brubaker2011select,
  address = {New York, New York, USA},
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R. and Hayes, Gillian R.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '11},
  doi = {10.1145/1958824.1958881},
  isbn = {9781450305563},
  keywords = {cscw,identity,sns,social media},
  tags = {cscw,sns,social media,identity},
  organization = {ACM},
  pages = {369--378},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {{SELECT * FROM USER: infrastructure and socio-technical representation}},
  url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1958824.1958881},
  year = {2011}
}

2010

Death and the Social Network Brubaker, Jed R. and Vertesi, Janet
HCI at the End of Life Workshop at CHI2010

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@inproceedings{Brubaker2010a,
  address = {Savannah, GA},
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R. and Vertesi, Janet},
  booktitle = {HCI at the End of Life Workshop at CHI2010},
  keywords = {death-sns,workshop},
  tags = {workshop,death-sns},
  month = feb,
  title = {{Death and the Social Network}},
  year = {2010}
}

PatientsLikeMe: Empowerment and Representation in a Patient-Centered Social Network Brubaker, Jed R. and Lustig, Caitie and Hayes, Gillian R.
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Attitudes and Readiness for Adoption of an Electronic Medical Records System: A Preliminary Case Study Brubaker, Jed R. and Chen, Yunan and Cheng, Karen and Combs, Chris and Harrison, Sidney and Hayes, Gillian R. and Kaplan, Sherrie
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2009

I am an ID: Non/persisting our sociotechnical digital identities Brubaker, Jed R.

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@phdthesis{Brubaker2009,
  annote = {From Duplicate 2 ( I am an ID: Non/persisting our sociotechnical digital identities - Brubaker, J. R )
                  },
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R.},
  keywords = {identity,sns},
  tags = {identity,sns},
  shorttitle = {I am an ID},
  title = {{I am an ID: Non/persisting our sociotechnical digital identities}},
  url = {http://gradworks.umi.com/14/67/1467120.html},
  year = {2009}
}

2008

I judged you at Starbucks – m4m (craigslist missed connections): digital communication and the regulation of real world contexts Brubaker, Jed R.
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wants moar: Visual Media’s Use of Text in LOLcats and Silent Film Brubaker, Jed R.
gnovis Journal 8: 117–124

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@article{Brubaker2008,
  author = {Brubaker, Jed R.},
  journal = {gnovis Journal},
  keywords = {online},
  tags = {online},
  number = {8},
  pages = {117--124},
  shorttitle = {wants moar},
  title = {{wants moar: Visual Media's Use of Text in LOLcats and Silent Film}},
  year = {2008}
}

2007

Developing a Life Story: Constructing Relations between Self and Experience in Autobiographical Narratives Pasupathi, M. and Mansour, E. and Brubaker, J.R.
Human Development 50, 2-3: 85–110

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DOI: 10.1159/000100939

@article{Pasupathi2007,
  author = {Pasupathi, M. and Mansour, E. and Brubaker, J.R.},
  doi = {10.1159/000100939},
  issn = {1423-0054},
  journal = {Human Development},
  keywords = {identity},
  tags = {identity},
  number = {2-3},
  pages = {85--110},
  shorttitle = {Developing a life story},
  title = {{Developing a Life Story: Constructing Relations between Self and Experience in Autobiographical Narratives}},
  url = {http://www.karger.com/doi/10.1159/000100939},
  volume = {50},
  year = {2007}
}