Brian James McInnis

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Exploring the future of informed consent: Applying a service design approach

Informed consent is a cornerstone of ethical human subject research. This practice demonstrates the ethical principle of "respect for persons." Our study was designed to imagine an informed consent future, specifically in a digital health context in which informed consent processes are mediated by sociotechnical syste…

CSCW '221st AuthorUnderstanding and Supporting Online Discussions

Engagement or Knowledge Retention: Exploring Trade-offs in Promoting Discussion at News Websites

How does presenting comments in a news article affect the ways that readers engage with and retain information about news? This paper presents results from a controlled experiment investigating effects related to different strategies for promoting discussion at news websites (N=336 participants). The strategies incl…

CSCW '221st AuthorUnderstanding and Supporting Online Discussions

Engagement or Knowledge Retention: Exploring Trade-offs in Promoting Discussion at News Websites

CSCW '211st AuthorContent Moderation

Reporting the Community Beat: Practices for Moderating Online Discussion at a News Website

Due to challenges around low-quality comments and misinformation, many news outlets have opted to turn off commenting features on their websites. The New York Times (NYT), on the other hand, has continued to scale up its online discussion resources to reach large audiences. Through interviews with the NYT moderation…

CSCW '201st AuthorData Work

Rare, but valuable: Understanding data-centered talk in news website comment sections

News websites can facilitate global discussions about civic issues, but the financial cost and burden of moderating these forums has forced many to disable their commenting systems. In this paper, we consider the role that data visualizations play in grounding discussion around a civic issue, through an analysis of h…

CSCW '20CorrespondingCollaboration: Creating and Writing Together

How we write with crowds

Writing is a common task for crowdsourcing researchers exploring complex and creative work. To better understand how we write with crowds, we conducted both a literature review of crowd-writing systems and structured interviews with designers of such systems. We argue that the cognitive process theory of writing desc…

CSCW '181st AuthorOnline Community Engagement

Crafting Policy Discussion Prompts as a Task for Newcomers

Inspired by policy deliberation methods and iterative writing in crowdsourcing, we developed and evaluated a task in which newcomers to an online policy discussion, before entering the discussion, generate prompts that encourage existing commenters to engage with each other. In an experiment with 453 Amazon Mechanica…

CSCW '181st AuthorCivic engagement and Hacking

How Features of a Civic Design Competition Influences the Collective Understanding of a Problem

From Fortune 500 companies to local communities, organizations often strive to build a shared understanding about complex problems. Design competitions provide a compelling approach to create incentives and infrastructure for gathering insights about a problem-space. In this paper, we present an analysis of a two-mont…

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