Kristen Barta

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Theorizing Self Visibility on Social Media: A Visibility Objects Approach

Self-presentation undergirds social interaction on social media. HCI and social computing scholarship draw on visibility to theorize self-presentation management; while research addresses how social media users leverage (in)visibility for self-presentation goals, how users perceive and assess the visibility of themsel…

CSCW '231st AuthorSocial Support I

Similar Others, Social Comparison, and Social Support in Online Support Groups

Social comparison and social support have implications for individuals’ wellbeing, offline and on social media. Perceptions of similarity underlie both social comparison and social support processes, though how comparison and support function in tandem in online spaces, and which aspects of identity and experiential s…

CSCW '231st AuthorHarm and Vulnerability

Toward a Feminist Social Media Vulnerability Taxonomy

Vulnerability intimately shapes the lived human experience and continues to gain attention in computer-supported cooperative work and human-computer interaction scholarship broadly, and in social media studies specifically. Social media comprise sociotechnical affordances that may uniquely shape lived experiences with…

CHI '233rd AuthorAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +2

Conceptualizing Algorithmic Stigmatization

Algorithmic systems have infiltrated many aspects of our society, mundane to high-stakes, and can lead to algorithmic harms known as representational and allocative. In this paper, we consider what stigma theory illuminates about mechanisms leading to algorithmic harms in algorithmic assemblages. We apply the four sti…

CSCW '211st AuthorOnline Identities

Constructing Authenticity on TikTok: Social Norms and Social Support on the "Fun" Platform

Authenticity, generally regarded as coherence between one’s inner self and outward behavior, is associated with myriad social values (e.g., integrity) and beneficial outcomes, such as psychological well-being. Scholarship suggests, however, that behaving authentically online is complicated by self-presentation norms t…

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