Joseph S. Schafer

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With Visual Integrity and Care: A Framework for Mixed Methods Research on Visual Social Data

The internet is becoming increasingly visual, but social computing research and methodological training has relied heavily on textual methods. Methodological innovation is needed to study visual social data, including problematic information (mis- and disinformation, propaganda, hate, AI slop, etc). Contending with th…

CSCW '251st AuthorWhat Social Media Feeds Tell Us

"I Blow Up": Understanding TikTok Users’ Reactions to Sudden Social Media Attention

Social media platforms are known to facilitate sudden bursts of attention on individual pieces of content and their creators — dynamics often referred to as “going viral”. However, questions remain about how these moments impact the individuals who experience them, especially within algorithmically-mediated, video-sha…

CHI '252nd AuthorHonorable MentionOnline Harassment & Counter-Tools +2

The End of “Trust and Safety”?: Examining the Future of Content Moderation and Upheavals in Professional Online Safety Efforts

Trust & Safety (T&S) teams have become vital parts of tech platforms; ensuring safe platform use and combating abuse, harassment, and misinformation. However, between 2021 and 2023, T&S teams faced significant layoffs, impacted by broader downsizing in the tech industry. In addition, a reduction in T&S teams has also…

DIS '231st AuthorMisinformation & Fact-Checking +3

Participatory Design and Power in Misinformation, Disinformation, and Online Hate Research

As a research tradition, participatory design (PD) tends to focus on power dynamics where researchers hold greater power than participants. This paper uses design fiction to consider what this tendency overlooks by examining settings where participants may exist in multiple power relationships simultaneously implicate…

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