HAIMSON,
Ph.D.
haimson@umich.edu
@oliverhaimson
Oliver Haimson
Oliver Haimson
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HAIMSON, Ph.D.
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Each person faces many transitions throughout their life as they develop, age, and change. Yet people often find it difficult to manage where and how to present and discuss life transitions and changing identities on social media sites, and to find communities of similar others. These difficulties are often amplified for those with marginalized or stigmatized identities (e.g., transgender and other LGBQ people, first generation and low-income college students). This line of research addresses these concerns via a wide range of methods. We seek to explain how people fragment their identities and networks among separate social media sites during major life transitions, and the social inequities that exist for people with marginalized identities, particularly those with multiple intersecting marginalized identities, during major life transitions (among other outcomes).
A major contribution of this line of research is The Major Life Events Taxonomy,
a new taxonomy of 121 major life events in 12 categories that researchers can use
to understand how life transitions people experience relate to their behaviors,
health and psychological outcomes, and technology use.
Selected PublicationsThe Major Life Events Taxonomy: Social Readjustment, Social Media Information Sharing, and Online Network Separation During Times of Life Transition Oliver L. Haimson, AJ Carter, Shanley Corvite, Brookelyn Wheeler, Lingbo Wang, Tianxiao Liu, Alexxus Lige Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 72(7), July 2021 (first published online January 2021), p. 933-947 [open-access link] [PDF] [taxonomy]
The Online Authenticity Paradox: What Being "Authentic" on Social Media Means, and Barriers to Achieving It
Transgender identity management across social media platforms
Online Transgender Health Information Seeking: Facilitators, Barriers, and Future Directions
Coming Out to Doctors, Coming Out to 'Everyone': Understanding the Average Sequence of Transgender Identity Disclosures Using Social Media Data
Challenging "Getting Better" Social Media Narratives With Intersectional Transgender Lived Experiences
Tumblr was a Trans Technology: The Meaning, Importance, History, and Future of Trans Technologies
Mapping Gender Transition Sentiment Patterns via
Social Media Data: Toward Decreasing Transgender Mental Health Disparities
Social Media as Social Transition Machinery
The Social Complexities of Transgender Identity Disclosure on Social Media
Relationship Breakup Disclosures and Media Ideologies on Facebook
Class Confessions: Restorative Properties in Online Experiences of Socioeconomic Stigma
Digital and Physical Barriers to Changing Identities
Digital Footprints and Changing Networks During Online Identity Transitions
Online Inspiration and Exploration for Identity Reinvention
Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook
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