Michaelanne Thomas

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The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts

Social media platforms and their governance policies often fail marginalized users in high-stakes contexts, including war, violent attacks, human rights violations, humanitarian crises, and situations of systemic oppression. Through interviews, autoethnography, and digital ethnography, this paper presents three case…

CHI '265th+ AuthorDeveloping Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +1

UnWEIRDing Peer Review in Human-Computer Interaction

Peer review determines which scholarship is legitimized; however, review biases often disadvantage scholarship that diverges from the norm. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lacks a systemic inquiry into how such biases affect underrepresented Global South (GS) scholarship. To address this critical gap, we conducted fo…

CHI '26CorrespondingSocial Platform Design & User Behavior +3

"If we post, what will people think of us?”: Offline Norms, Online Engagement and Unpacking Gendered Experiences in a Pakistani Facebook Tech Community

This paper investigates how deeply entrenched offline gender norms and patriarchal power structures constrain and shape participation within Tech Aids, a large Facebook community in Pakistan focused on peer-to-peer technical help and e-commerce transactions. Through a qualitative study involving 14 months of participa…

CHI '25CorrespondingAI-Assisted Decision-Making & Automation +2

The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences

Accuracy and precision are central values in the AI communities and the technology sector. This paper provides empirical evidence on the construction and organizational management of technical accuracy, demonstrating how technology companies' preoccupation with such values leads to harm. Drawing on nine months of mult…

CSCW '222nd AuthorGig Economy

Gig Platforms as Faux Infrastructure: A Case Study of Women Beauty Workers in India

In order to sustain everyday life in India during pandemic induced lockdowns, home service gig platforms materialized to provide essential services for urban society. As unemployment worsened, these gig platforms also emerged as key sources of paid work for gig workers, with some platforms promising an unusual degree…

CSCW '222nd AuthorGig Economy

Gig Platforms as Faux Infrastructure: A Case Study of Women Beauty Workers in India

CSCW '22CorrespondingCollective Action; Collective Action

The Chinese Diaspora and The Attempted WeChat Ban: Platform Precarity, Anticipated Impacts, and Infrastructural Migration

In August 2020, the U.S. presidential administration issued an executive order to ban the Chinese-based social platform WeChat, alleging that WeChat posed a national security risk. However, WeChat is a vital application for Chinese diasporic communities in the U.S. The ban’s status and outcome were uncertain for sever…

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