• i primarily utilize computational social science work and interview studies, but in principle i am fairly methods-agnostic;
• in looking at social and organizational dynamics in online spaces, i'm often motivated by questions of accountability, autonomy, the role of user innovation/participation, the relationship between heterogeneity and scale, and what behavioral patterns tell us about power and institutions + the effect of platform/technology design choices (and what we can do about these things);
• right now, i'm especially interested in complexities arising in decentralized and polycentric modes of governance. e.g., how online groups variably develop, adapt, subvert rules + tools + platform affordances to govern themselves and the implications for platform-level regulatory effectiveness.

🏵️ = award

under review
(contact me for pre-prints! titles altered for blind review)

• Hwang, Sohyeon, Charles Kiene, Serene Ong, and Aaron Shaw. Curating sets of bots for online community governance.

peer-reviewed, archival work

• Hwang, Sohyeon, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, and Daniel Romero. (2023, Forthcoming at ICWSM2023). Information retention in the multi-platform sharing of science. [pre-print]
• Hwang, Sohyeon and Aaron Shaw. (2022). Rules and rule-making in the five largest Wikipedias. In Proc. 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Atlanta, Georgia. [link]
• 🏵️ Hwang, Sohyeon, and Jeremy Foote. (2021). Why do people participate in small online communities? Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 462 (October 2021), 25 pages. [doi (open-access)]

workshop + poster presentations (peer-reviewed, non-archival)

• Hwang, Sohyeon, Priyanka Nanayakkara, Yan Shvartzshnaider. Whose Policy? Privacy Challenges of Decentralized Platforms. In Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously: Towards A Research Agenda and New Practice (CHI 2023). Hamburg, Germany. April 2023.
• Zou, Emily, Sohyeon Hwang, Nathan TeBlunthuis, and Aaron Shaw. 2022. (Don't) ignore your haters: Antagonistic mutualism in online communities. 2022 Lambert Conference on The Future of Human Computer Interaction + Design, Northwestern Center for HCI+Design. Evanston, IL. [pdf]
• Hwang, Sohyeon, Charles Kiene, Serene Ong, and Aaron Shaw. 2022. The work of adopting third-party bot applications for online community governance. 2022 Lambert Conference on The Future of Human Computer Interaction + Design, Northwestern Center for HCI+Design. Evanston, IL. [pdf]
• Hwang, Sohyeon, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, and Daniel Romero. (2022, multiple venues). Information retention in multi-platform discussions of science. [pdf]
• Poster presentation @ International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2022, 19-22 July 2022. Chicago, IL.
• Poster presentation @ International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI) 2022. June 7-9, 2022. Washington DC, USA.
• Hwang, Sohyeon and Aaron Shaw. (2020). Heterogeneous practices in collective governance. Collective Intelligence 2020 (CI 2020). Boston & Copenhagen (Virtually held). [pdf] [recording]
• Rahm, Brian G., Sohyeon Hwang, Tim Joo, Karin Teuffer, Sridhar Vedachalam, Deb Grantham, and Susan J. Riha. (2016). Making the case for OWTS management: lessons from case studies and research. In AGU Fall Meeting 2016 Abstracts. San Francisco, CA. [pdf]

i am always happy to talk with folks/audiences outside of academia about research work in my domain! feel free to reach out or see what's coming up below:

• Lessons on decentralized governance from online communities. Governance Learning Forum 2022. Hosted by Other Internet. 19-20 August 2022.
• Content moderation on Discord. D/ARC (Discord Academic Research Community) - Bonfire Chat. (Panel). 18 May 2022. Virtual. [recording]
• Learning from small and overlapping communities. Science of Community Dialogues, by the Community Data Science Collective. 11 February 2022. Virtual.
• Where do rules come from? Comparing rule creation processes and outcomes across different language Wikipedias. Discord Moderator Discord Academic Talks (DMDAT). 13 January 2022. Virtual Q&A.
• The science of social media. Uncontrolled Variables: A Science & Comedy Show, 2 September 2021. Lincoln Lodge Theater, Chicago, IL.

• Li, Hanlin, Leah Ajmani, Moyan Zhou, Nicholas Vincent, Sohyeon Hwang, Tiziano Piccardi, Sneha Narayan, Sherae Daniel, Veniamin Veselovsky. "Ethical Tensions, Norms, and Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work". Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2022. [site].