Katie Z. Gach

schoolUniversity of Coloradobar_chart#3637 Global Rank

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Getting Your Facebook Affairs in Order: User Expectations in Post-mortem Profile Management

In 2015, Facebook launched Legacy Contact to allow account holders to choose someone to manage their postmortem, memorialized profile. This study evaluates the Legacy Contact setup process, and asks how users form and communicate expectations about what an active post-mortem manager’s responsibilities would be. We con…

CSCW '213rd AuthorOnline Health Communities

What is Spiritual Support and How Might It Impact the Design of Online Communities?

Spirituality is an understudied topic in social computing; however, for Online Health Community (OHC) users facing life-threatening illness, it is of fundamental importance. Through in-depth focus groups with OHC stakeholders in a US context, we derive a definition of ``spiritual support'' for use by designers and res…

CSCW '193rd AuthorAlgorithms

"Am I Never Going to Be Free of All This Crap?" Upsetting Encounters With Algorithmically Curated Content About Ex-Partners

Every day on social media, people see streams of content curated by algorithms that leverage their relationships, preferences, and identities. However, algorithms can oversimplify the complexity of people's social contexts. Consequently, algorithms can present content to people in ways that are insensitive to their ci…

CSCW '181st AuthorEmotion and Biosensing

“Control your emotions, Potter”: An Analysis of Grief Policing on Facebook in Response to Celebrity Death

As social media platforms become a larger part of sharing life, they have by necessity become a part of sharing death. In life, pop culture fans can have parasocial (one-sided, mediated) relationships with celebrities. Yet when fans of departed celebrities express their grief in public comment threads, conversations o…

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