2024/06 - my defense date is set for 08/29 ⚔️🙉 there's a public portion + it will be hybrid, reach out if you'd like to join :D
2024/04 - a scoping review 🔭 on computational approaches to address online harassment has been conditionally accepted for DIS2024 :) edit: here is the doi📝
2024/04 - new CSCW publication out 📝🔓 on bot adoption in Discord communities - i'll be talking about it at ICA and CSCW this year 🫡
2024/02 - right before ICA, I'll also be at Wikipedia and/as data to discuss reflective practices around Wikipedia data :)
2024/01 - work on bot adoption by Discord communities accepted to ICA 2024; will be at gold coast in-person to present (and surf 🏄)
2024/01 - officially passed my qualify exams + successfully defended my dissertation prospectus! all-but-dissertation now 🤠
2023/12 - two early lil' xmas presents 🎄 from the review cycle!
> a paper on third-party bot adoption (with Charles Kiene, Serene Ong, Aaron Shaw) was accepted for CSCW2024 (after a **long** review journey 🙈🎉);
> and, a new project on underproduction risks and project governance formalization led by Matt Gaughan and Kaylea Champion was accepted on the short paper / poster track at SANER2024 😊
2023/11 - had a lot of fun at the CSCW Southeast meet-up hosted by wonderful folks at Emory and Georgia Tech!
2023/09 - super thrilled to have been invited to talk at the Wikimedia Research Showcase! i got to share my work on rules and rule-making with aaron :3 the recording is here
2023/07 - accepted to share work-in-progress @ the PrivaCI Symposium in Toronto in September
2023/05 - got to share my work on rules and rule-making on Wikipedia at WikiWorkshop 2023!
2023/04 - super excited to be part of the CSST Summer Research Institute this year (6/27 update: didn't make it due to thunderstorms grounding flights 😞)
2023/04 - the book club i co-organize is reading Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson this quarter, starting in May. get in touch if you wanna join! 📚
2023/03 - my small communities study with Jeremy was briefly referenced in a cool washington post article ✨
2023/03 - going to CHI2023 in Germany, to participate in the Design X Policy workshop and talk about a budding project on privacy policies on the Fediverse with Priyanka Nanayakkara and Yan Shvartzshnaider :3 (edit: here is our workshop submission)
2023/01 - the book club i co-organize is reading Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum this quarter. please get in touch if you wanna join us 📚
2022/11 - ran an extremely brain-sparkling CSCW2022 workshop on the ethics of online volunteer labor with a lot of really awesome people ✨🧠✨
2022/11 - work with Aaron Shaw on rules across language editions of Wikipedia has been accepted to MPSA2023 🙌
2022/10 - video of my talk session at GLF2022 is up: [youtube]
2022/10 - an undergrad student i work with, Emily Zou, presented a poster at the HCI+D Lambert Conference here at northwestern! i also had a poster :)
2022/04 - a project with Agnes Horvat and Daniel Romero on information retention across multiple platforms has been accepted as a poster at ICSSI2022 in DC ~and~ IC2S2 in Chicago this summer
2022/02 - i've been invited to chat about my work on small communities at a meeting with Grouplens, a research group at University of Minnesota.
2022/02 - did a guest lecture recently :) a short one on thinking through multiple levels of online governance for COMM_ST378 at Northwestern (disclaimer: I am the TA hehe).
2022/02 - my lab hosted the first of (hopefully many) workshops in dialogue with awesome practioners from industry, non-profits, and communities! i gave a talk. you can see more here.
2022/01 - i dropped by to do a virtual Q&A chat about my research work on heterogeneity in online governance with some great people involved with moderation at/on discord. no recording, but i'm really excited to have been invited and had a lovely time :D thank you Joseph Seering for organizing this!
2021/11 - the first manuscript from a project that i've been working on with my advisor Aaron for a long time has been accepted to ICWSM2022!
2021/11 - dropped by University of Washington's 590: HCI Seminar to discuss my work on small communities on Nov 5. thank you Stefania Druga and Galen Weld for inviting me :)
2021/10 - my CSCW2021 paper with Jeremy Foote on small communities received a "best paper honorable mention award" 🏆 :D
2021/08 - i'll be joining the science & comedy show Uncontrolled Variables's first COVID-era-in-person show on Sept 2 to talk about researching online governance! thanks to Jack Bandy for surprise-referring me to the organizers!
2021/08 - my MA thesis is approved by my wonderful committee! i will officially have a master's in fall 2021 🙂
2021/07 - a paper i wrote with Jeremy Foote just got accepted to CSCW 2021 🙌 my ~first full conference paper~, so i'm p excited to talk about it; the pre-print is available here.
2019/09 - began my PhD program in the MTS program at Northwestern University.
2018/12 - the Emma Bowen Foundation wrote a little profile about my experience as a fellow :)
upcoming schedule
2024/08 - public dissertation defense on 08/29 @ Northwestern
^ contact me if you want to come / zoom in! 2024/11 - presenting @CSCW 2024 (San José, Costa Rica)
