Michael A DeVito

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Values (Mis)alignment: Exploring Tensions Between Platform and LGBTQ+ Community Design Values

Social platforms hold great promise for supporting marginalized communities, such as the LGBTQ+ community, yet they are frequently sites of further stigmatization and harm. By engaging a diverse sample of 31 US LGBTQ+ users in five qualitative, design-based value elicitation exercises, we find that misalignments betwe…

CHI '181st AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +1

The Algorithm and the User: How Can HCI Use Lay Understandings of Algorithmic Systems?

In studying the increasing role that opaque, algorithmically-driven systems, such as social media feeds, play in society and people’s everyday lives, user folk theories are emerging as one powerful lens with which to examine the relationship between user and algorithmic system. Folk theories allow researchers to bette…

CSCW '181st AuthorRelationships across Platforms

Too Gay for Facebook: Presenting LGBTQ+ Identity Throughout the Personal Social Media Ecosystem

Most US social media users engage regularly with multiple platforms. For LGBTQ+ people, this means making self-presentation decisions not just on one platform, but many. These choices are made in the face of sometimes-overlapping platform environments, which can have consequentially different norms, audiences, and aff…

CHI '181st AuthorContent Moderation & Platform Governance +1

How People Form Folk Theories of Social Media Feeds and What it Means for How We Study Self-Presentation

Self-presentation is a process that is significantly complicated by the rise of algorithmic social media feeds, which obscure information about one’s audience and environment. User understandings of these systems, and therefore user ability to adapt to them, are limited, and have recently been explored through the len…

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