Kelley Cotter

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Volunteer Moderation as Situated Civic Labor in Local Information Infrastructures

Local information is essential for civic engagement, community belonging and well-being, and collective action. As more U.S. communities become "news deserts" without local newspapers or broadcast media, neighborhood- and municipality-level groups on platforms like Facebook, Nextdoor, and Reddit have become key nodes…

CSCW '25CorrespondingActivism in a Time of Data

Who Is a Good Digital Activist? Exploring Social Justice Activists’ Adaptation to Instagram’s Algorithmic Changes

Through interviews with 16 social justice activists, we explore their challenges of adapting to Instagram, particularly in light of the platform's evolving algorithm. Our findings reveal that the frequent changes in these algorithms significantly impact their ability to engage effectively-- and disproportionately impa…

CSCW '252nd AuthorWhat Social Media Feeds Tell Us

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok

Recent studies show that users often interpret social media algorithms as mystical or spiritual because of their unpredictability. This invites new questions about how such perceptions affect the content that creators create and the communities they form online. In this study, 14 creators of algorithmic conspiritualit…

CHI '24CorrespondingInclusive Design +1

"We happen to be different and different is not bad": Designing for Intersectional Fat-Positive Information-Seeking

Fat liberation is a social movement advocating for equal treatment of fat people, who are currently subjected to harmful stereotypes, harassment, discrimination at school and work, and medical mistreatment, and is an understudied movement in HCI research. Due to the social and legal acceptability of anti-fatness, many…

CHI '244th AuthorTeleoperated Driving +2

"I Got Flagged for Supposed Bullying, Even Though It Was in Response to Someone Harassing Me About My Disability.": A Study of Blind TikTokers’ Content Moderation Experiences

The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community has consistently focused on the experiences of users moderated by social media platforms. Recently, scholars have noticed that moderation practices could perpetuate biases, resulting in the marginalization of user groups undergoing moderation. However, most studies have p…

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