Tawfiq Ammari

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Beyond the Silence: How Men Navigate Infertility Through Digital Communities and Data Sharing

Men experiencing infertility face unique challenges navigating Traditional Masculinity Ideologies that discourage emotional expression and help-seeking. This study examines how Reddit's r/maleinfertility community helps overcome these barriers through digital support networks. Using topic modeling (115 topics), networ…

CSCW '25CorrespondingFighting Misinformation, Building Believability

“If it has an exclamation point, I step away from it, I need facts, not excited feelings”: Technologically Mediated Parental COVID Uncertainty

As a novel virus, COVID introduced considerable uncertainty into the daily lives of people all over the globe since late 2019. Relying on twenty-three semi-structured interviews with parents whose children contracted COVID, we analyzed how the use of social media moderated parental uncertainty about the symptoms, prog…

CSCW '251st AuthorRecovering From a Crisis

Finding Understanding and Support: Navigating Online Communities to Share and Connect at the intersection of Abuse and Foster Care Experiences

Many children in foster care experience trauma that is rooted in unstable family relationships. Other members of the foster care system like foster parents and social workers face secondary trauma. Drawing on 10 years of Reddit data, we used a mixed methods approach to analyze how different members of the foster care…

CSCW '25CorrespondingRecovering From a Crisis

"We’re losing our neighborhoods. We’re losing our community'': A comparative analysis of community discourse in online and offline public spheres across disaster phases

Trauma can disrupt one's sense of self and mental well-being, leading survivors to reconstruct their identities in online communities. Drawing from 30 in-depth interviews, we present a sociotechnical process model that illustrates the mechanisms of online identity reconstruction and the pathways to integration. We int…

CSCW '25CorrespondingRecovering From a Crisis

Kintsugi-Inspired Design: Communicatively Reconstructing Identities Online After Trauma

CUI '232nd AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

Voice Assistant Use in Long-Term Care

Research on voice assistants has primarily studied how people use them for informational needs, music requests, and to control electronic devices (e.g., IoT). Recent research suggests people such as older adults want to use them to address social and relational needs, but lacks empirical evidence to show how older adu…

CHI '23CorrespondingMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

“If Someone Downvoted My Posts—That’d Be the End of the World”: Designing Safer Online Spaces for Trauma Survivors

Trauma is a common experience affecting over 70 percent of adults globally, with many survivors seeking support from online communities. Yet few studies explore the online experiences of muted groups who lack the words to describe or name their trauma. We pull from 29 in-depth interviews with muted trauma survivors wh…

CSCW '221st AuthorPlatform Moderation; Platform Moderation

Moderation as Empowerment: Creating and Managing Women-Only Digital Safe Spaces

This paper explores the creation, management and moderation of women-only online groups as digital safe spaces. We interview eleven founders and moderators of six distinct, closed, women-only Facebook groups that predominantly cater to women in and from the Global South. The study provides insights into the motivation…

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