Emma S. Spiro

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Privacy versus Transparency: Navigating Public Records Requests and Adversarial Dynamics in a Distributed Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

Public records laws are standard for state and federal governments across the U.S. Such laws rest on the core notion that transparency, enacted through access to governmental documentation, will ensure accountability and minimize governmental corruption. However, these laws can also be exploited to harass or burden go…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3e: Content Moderation and Marginalized Experiences

Beyond Initial Removal: Lasting Impacts of Discriminatory Content Moderation to Marginalized Creators on Instagram

Recent work has demonstrated how content moderation practices on social media may unfairly affect marginalized individuals, for example by censoring women's bodies and misidentifying reclaimed terms as hate speech. This study documents and explores the direct experiences of marginalized creators who have been impacted…

CHI '23CorrespondingAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +1

Attached to "The Algorithm": Making Sense of Algorithmic Precarity on Instagram

This work explores how users navigate the opaque and ever-changing algorithmic processes that dictate visibility on Instagram through the lens of Attachment Theory. We conducted thematic analysis on 1,100 posts and comments on r/Instagram to understand how users engage in collective sensemaking with regards to Instagr…

CSCW '21CorrespondingEquity, Inclusion, and Narratives

Nobody Puts Redditor in a Binary: Digital Demography, Collective Identities, and Gender in a Subreddit Network

Prior work on transgender technology users in CSCW has primarily focused on how they interact with algorithms and communication technology, empirically identifying specific use cases and profiles, and speaking largely to the designers and developers of these platforms. This work has emphasized how trans people are exc…

CHI '19CorrespondingUncertainty Visualization +1

Keeping Rumors in Proportion: Managing Uncertainty in Rumor Systems

The study of rumors has garnered wider attention as regulators and researchers turn towards problems of misinformation on social media. One goal has been to discover and implement mechanisms that promote healthy information ecosystems. Classically defined as regarding ambiguous situations, rumors pose the unique diffi…

CSCW '184th AuthorHashtags and Social Movements

Drawing the Lines of Contention: Networked Frame Contests Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse

This research examines Twitter discourse related to #BlackLivesMatter and police-related shooting events in 2016 through a mixed-method, interpretative approach. We construct a “shared audience graph”, revealing structural and ideological disparities between two groups of participants (one on the political left, the o…

CHI '18CorrespondingSocial Platform Design & User Behavior +1

Engage Early, Correct More: How Journalists Participate in False Rumors Online during Crisis Events

Journalists are struggling to adapt to new conditions of news production and simultaneously encountering criticism for their role in spreading misinformation. Against the backdrop of this “crisis in journalism”, this research seeks to understand how journalists are actually participating in the spread and correction o…

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