
OLIVER L. HAIMSON, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
CALENDAR
moderator for DISCO Network's Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal Panel Discussion
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
February 14, 2025, 1pm
Trans Technologies book talk
PATLab, University College Cork, Ireland
virtual
February 20, 2025, 2pm GMT
Trans Technologies book talk
University of Michigan LGBTQ+ Health Research Network, Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
Zoom
February 21, 2025, 12pm
[register to attend online]
Trans Technologies book release day event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with Avery Everhart
Center for Applied Transgender Studies
Zoom
February 25, 2025
[registration link coming soon]
Roundtable on Transgender Issues in AI Policy
RightsCon 2025
virtual
February 26, 2025, 9:45am
Trans Technologies book event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with Sheena Erete
Red Emma's Books
Baltimore, MD
March 4, 2025, 7pm
Trans Technologies book event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with T.L. Cowan and Jas Rault
University of Toronto Queer and Trans Research Lab, Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 10, 2025, 2pm
Trans Technologies book talk
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
March 11, 2025, 1pm
Trans Technologies book launch event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with Kishonna Gray
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
March 12, 2025, 3pm
[register to attend in-person]
[register to attend online]
Trans Technologies book talk
University of Maryland, College of Information
College Park, MD
March 13, 2025, 12:30pm
Trans Technologies book talk
Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Stanford, CA
March 14, 2025, 11:30am
Trans Technologies book talk
Michigan State University Media & Information, GenCen, and ComArtSci DEI Office
Lansing, MI
March 18, 2025, 11am
Trans Technologies book event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with Meredith Lee
Redbud Books
Bloomington, IN
March 26, 2025, 6pm
Trans Technologies book event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with Sasha Winter (@stargazersasha)
Third Place Books at Seward Park
Seattle, WA
March 27, 2025, 7pm
[register to attend]
Moving Trans History Forward conference
Victoria, BC, Canada
March 28 - 30, 2025
Trans Technologies book talk
University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School
Philadelphia, PA
April 1, 2025, 4pm
Trans Technologies book event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with TBD
Symposium Books
Providence, RI
April 3, 2025, 6pm
Sociotechnical Challenges in Information Science Research Symposium
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
April 4, 2025
Trans Technologies book event: Oliver Haimson in conversation with TBD
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, MI
April 7, 2025, 6:30pm
Trans Technologies book talk
University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Information Science
Boulder, CO
April 16, 2025
ACM CHI conference
Yokohama, Japan
April 26 - May 1, 2025
Trans Technologies book talk
University of Washington, DUB Seminar
Seattle, WA
May 21, 2025, 12pm
Trans Technologies book talk
UCLA Information Studies Colloquium
Los Angeles, CA
May 22, 2025, 2pm
book events will be confirmed soon in:
Berkeley, Chicago, Los Angeles, and more!
TOOLS & RESOURCES OUR TEAM CREATED
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RESEARCH
Research areas
social computing, human-computer interaction (HCI),
trans technologies, extended reality, augmented
reality, content moderation, trans and LGBTQ+
health, identity transitions, social media
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NEWS
Papers accepted for CHI 2025
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Our research group has four papers conditionally accepted for CHI 2025:
- "The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences,"
led by Ben Zefeng Zhang and co-authored with Tianling Yang, Milagros Miceli, and Michaelanne Thomas
- "Cataloging Augmented, Ambivalent Transgender Futures: Designing Inclusive AR Technologies for Trans Communities Through Speculative, Participatory Zine-Making,"
led by F. Ria Khan and co-authored with Kat Brewster, Aloe DeGuia, Denny Starks, Malay Mañacop, Samuel Mayworm, and Tawanna Dillahunt.
- "'That Moment of Curiosity': Augmented Reality Face Filters for Transgender Identity Exploration, Gender Affirmation, and Radical Possibility,"
first-authored by Kat Brewster and co-authored with Aloe DeGuia, Samuel Mayworm, F. Ria Khan, Mel Monier, and Denny Starks
- "The Virtual Jail: Content Moderation Challenges Faced by Chinese Queer Content Creators on Douyin,"
led by Caoyang Shen.
January 24, 2025
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Profile in Washington Blade
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I was featured in a Washington Blade
article about trans technologies, by Henry Carnell.
December 23, 2024
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Trans Technologies featured in Inside Higher Ed
Trans Technologies will be published Feb. 25!
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You can pre-order the book HERE if you’d like,
and it will also be available free open-access! Half of all author royalties will be donated to trans BIPOC organizations.
I’m working on organizing book events for March, April, and beyond, so please get in touch
if you’d like to host something!
November 22, 2024
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Paper accepted for GROUP 2025
Panel at CSCW 2024
Papers accepted for CSCW 2024
Papers and panel accepted for Trans Studies Conference
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I have two papers and a panel accepted for The 2nd International Trans Studies Conference:
"Facing the Filters: Designing AR Technologies for Identity Exploration, Gender Affirmation, and Radical Possibility By and For the Trans Community"
led by Kat Brewster and co-authored with Denny Starks, Mel Monier, F. Ria Khan,
Samuel Mayworm, and Aloe DeGuia,
"'Algorithm Daddy Wants Sweet, Sweet Content': An Exploration of Trans Creator Experiences on TikTok"
led by Mel Monier, and
"Computing and Information Sciences as a Partner for the Post-Discipline"
led by Michael Ann DeVito and including panelists Ada Lerner, Amy Ko, Danaë Metaxa, and Phoebe Toups Dugas.
May 31, 2024
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Papers accepted for AoIR 2024
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Our research team has three papers accepted for AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers) 2024:
"Hostile Digital Archives: Dynamic Risks and Records of Queer and Trans Life Online"
led by Kat Brewster,
"Conceptualizing Precision Labor in Artificial Intelligence Training" led by Ben
Zefeng Zhang and co-authored with Tianling Yang and Michaelanne Thomas, and
"The Technopolitics of Waiting: Case Studies of AI Training in China and Homeless Services Systems in the U.S."
led by Pelle Tracey and Ben Zefeng Zhang and co-authored with Patricia Garcia and
Michaelanne Thomas.
May 31, 2024
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Workshop at DIS 2024
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I am co-organizing a workshop at
DIS 2024 on
Making Trouble: Techniques for Queering AI and Data Systems, with
Anh-Ton Tran, Annabel Rothschild, Louie Søs Meyer, Brian Kinnee, Jordan Taylor,
Kay Kender, Ekat Osipova, Ann Light, and Carl DiSalvo. Call for participation
is here.
May 7, 2024
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Best Poster Finalist at iConference 2024
Papers accepted for FAccT 2024
Paper published in Social Science & Medicine
Poster accepted for iConference 2024
Paper published in Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS)
Steering committee for 2nd International Trans Studies Conference
Papers accepted for CSCW 2024
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Our research group has three papers accepted for CSCW 2024:
- "The Online Identity Help Center: Designing and Developing a Content Moderation Policy Resource for Marginalized Social Media Users,"
led by Samuel Mayworm and co-authored with Shannon Li, Hibby Thach, Daniel Delmonaco, Christian Paneda, and Andrea Wegner
- "'I'm Constantly in This Dilemma': How Migrant Technology Professionals Perceive Social Media Recommendation Algorithms,"
co-first-authored by Cassidy Pyle and Ben Zefeng Zhang and co-authored with Nazanin Andalibi
- "'What are you doing, TikTok?': How Marginalized Social Media Users Perceive, Theorize, and 'Prove' Shadowbanning,"
led by Dan Delmonaco and co-authored with Samuel Mayworm, Josh Guberman, Hibby Thach, and Aurelia Augusta.
December 1, 2023
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Paper accepted for Transactions on Social Computing
Paper published in JMIR Formative Research
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We have a new article in JMIR Formative Research:
"Community-Engaged Participatory Methods to Address
LGBTQ+ Young People’s Health Information Needs With a Resource Website: Participatory Design and Development Study,"
led by Dan Delmonaco and co-authored with Shannon Li, Christian Paneda, Elliot Popoff, Luna Hughson,
Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, Jack Alferio, Christian Stephenson, Angelique Henry, Kiandra Powdhar, Isabella Gierlinger, and Gary Harper.
September 29, 2023
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Moderator for TJ Billard's book launch event
Workshop papers accepted for CSCW 2023
Featured on Voices of REC podcast
Forthcoming book!
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I'm excited to announce that my forthcoming book Trans Technologies will be published
by MIT Press in early 2025!
August 11, 2023
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Henry Russel Award
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I am honored to receive the 2024 University of Michigan Henry Russel Award!
August 11, 2023
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Featured in USA Today
Abstract accepted for 4S 2023
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Ben Zefeng Zhang will be presenting our work on "The Promise and Precarity of Al4D: An Ethnography of Artificial Intelligence Training Work in China"
as part of the "Politics of accumulation and resistance in automation"
panel at
4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) 2023.
June 30, 2023
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Panel accepted for TrustCon 2023
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I will be part of a panel called "LGBTQ+ Trust & Safety"
at
TrustCon 2023
with Alex Leavitt, Alice Goguen Hunsberger, and Jenni Olson.
June 1, 2023
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CHI 2024 program committee
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I am serving on the program committee for CHI 2024
as an associate chair in the Understanding People - Qualitative Methods subcommittee.
June 1, 2023
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Paper and panel accepted for AoIR 2023
Panel accepted for ASA 2023
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I will be part of a panel called "Technological Potentials for Trans Media, Love, and Solidarity"
at
ASA (American Studies Association) 2023
with Anne Cong-Huyen, George Hoagland, Laura Horak, Romi Ron Morrison, and SA Smythe.
May 8, 2023
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Quoted in New York Times
CHI 2023 Best Paper Award!
Workshop paper accepted for CHI 2023
Papers accepted for CHI 2023
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I have two papers accepted for CHI 2023: "How Transgender People and Communities Were
Involved in Trans Technology Design Processes," co-authored with Kai Nham, Hibby Thach,
and Aloe DeGuia, and "Infrastructuring Care Ecologies: How Trans and Non-Binary People
Meet Health and Well-Being Needs through Technology," led by Lauren Wilcox and co-authored
with Renee Shelby, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Gabi Erickson, Michael Turken, and Beka Gulotta.
January 25, 2023
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Paper published in First Monday
NSF Medium grant funding received
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I received an NSF Medium grant for the project
"Designing Technologies for Marginalized Communities." This research is a
collaboration with Tess Tanenbaum at UCI, Rana Saber at Northwestern ISGMH, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández at Princeton.
December 9, 2022
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Featured in Them
Panel accepted for SCMS 2023
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Hibby Thach will be presenting our work on "What Makes Games (Studies) Trans?: Trans Game Developers and Trans Futures in Games"
as part of the "Trans Play and the Boundaries of Game Studies"
panel at
SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) 2023
with Arianna Gass, Jack McLaren, and Madison Schmalzer.
November 30, 2022
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Featured in Daily Beast
Paper published in New Media & Society
Online Identity Help Center site launched
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We recently launched our new site,
The Online Identity Help Center,
created to help people understand social media platforms' policies and rules about
content moderation, and figure out next steps after content and account removals.
Read more about it in this article.
August 12, 2022
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Featured in MIT Technology Review
Paper published in Journal of LGBT Youth
Papers accepted for CSCW 2022
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My research group had two additional papers accepted for CSCW 2022:
"The Chinese Diaspora and The Attempted WeChat Ban: Platform Precarity, Anticipated Impacts, and Infrastructural Migration,"
lead by Ben Zefeng Zhang and co-authored with Michaelanne Thomas, and
"Separate Online Networks During Life Transitions: Support, Identity, and Challenges in Social Media and Online Communities,"
co-first-authored by Ben Zefeng Zhang, Tianxiao Liu, and Shanley Corvite and co-authored with Nazanin Andalibi.
June 17, 2022
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Grant funding received from Institute for Research on Women & Gender
Upcoming panel at HCIC 2022
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I'll be speaking as part of the Health and Communities panel at HCIC 2022
(Human Computer Interaction Consortium) on June 22.
May 13, 2022
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Presenting at 2022 TransTech Summit
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I'll be a presenter at the 2022 TransTechSummit
on March 31 - April 3, leading a workshop on "Pursuing a PhD in Tech / Computing Fields."
March 23, 2022
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Upcoming panel
Paper accepted for CSCW 2022
Paper accepted for TOCHI
Paper published in Currents
Applied Transgender Technology Studies Symposium
Riecker Undergraduate Research Fund
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I received funding from the Riecker Undergraduate Research Fund to hire an undergraduate
student to work as a research assistant on the trans technologies study. This funding is
provided by CEW+ to support gender-related research.
January 14, 2022
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CSCW 2022 program committee
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I am serving on the program committee for CSCW 2022
as an associate chair.
December 3, 2021
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CSCSW 2021 Award and Recognition!
Featured on Michigan IT website
New report on "Censorship of Marginalized Communities on Instagram" in collaboration with Salty
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I'm excited to have been involved with a new community report by the Salty Algorithmic Bias Collective titled
"Censorship of Marginalized Communities on Instagram,"
authored with Shakira Smith, Claire Fitzsimmons, and Nikki Echarte Brown.
September 29, 2021
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Featured on Flash Forward podcast
Papers accepted for CSCW 2021
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I had two papers accepted for CSCW 2021.
The first one is titled "Disproportionate Removals and Differing Content Moderation Experiences for Conservative, Transgender, and Black Social Media Users: Marginalization and Moderation Gray Areas,"
co-authored with Daniel Delmonaco, Peipei Nie, and Andrea Wegner. The other is "The Online Authenticity Paradox: What Being 'Authentic' on Social Media Means, and Barriers to Achieving It,"
co-authored with Tianxiao Liu, Ben Zefeng Zhang, and Shanley Corvite.
August 17, 2021
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UMSI Award for Impact in Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Information and Technology
Editorial Board for Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS)
Paper published in Media, Culture & Society
Quoted in article on algorithmic bias
Featured on Michigan Minds podcast
Joining Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)
Entry in SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies
Poster accepted for National LGBTQ Health Conference 2021
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"Social Media as Starting Point for LGBTQ+ Sexual Health Information Seeking,"
a poster I co-authored with PhD student Daniel Delmonaco (lead author),
was accepted to the National LGBTQ Health Conference 2021.
April 15, 2021
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Organizing Committee for CHI 2022
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I will be part of the organizing committee for CHI 2022, as Panels co-chair.
April 15, 2021
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Workshop paper accepted for CHI 2021
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A workshop paper I co-authored with Ben Zefeng Zhang (lead author) and Michaelanne Dye
titled "The Chinese Diaspora: Overlapping Life Transitions, Barriers, and HCI" has been accepted for the
Migration and
Mobility in HCI Workshop at
CHI 2021.
March 19, 2021
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NIH funding awarded
Paper published in JASIST
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My new paper "The Major Life Events Taxonomy:
Social Readjustment, Social Media Information Sharing, and Online Network Separation During Times of Life Transition,"
co-authored with AJ Carter, Shanley Corvite, Brookelyn Wheeler, Lingbo Wang, Tianxiao Liu, and
Alexxus Lige, was published in JASIST.
This paper contributes The Major Life Events Taxonomy, which
researchers can use to examine how people's life transition experiences relate to their behaviors,
technology use, and health and well‐being outcomes. The full taxonomy is available on
my website here.
February 5, 2021
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Paper accepted for CHI 2021
Organizing Committee for CSCW 2021
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I will be part of the organizing committee for CSCW 2021, as Proceedings and Publications co-chair.
October 15, 2020
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Paper accepted for CSCW
Poster accepted for CSCW 2020
Roundtable published in International Journal of Communication
Poster accepted for ASIS&T 2020
Poster accepted for ALISE 2020
Paper published in Transgender Health
Paper published in New Media & Society
Paper published in Social Media + Society
Pop-up grant funding received from National Center for Institutional Diversity
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I received a National Center for Institutional Diversity
Pop-Up Grant to support research on Mental Health Among Marginalized Communities for the proposal
"Online Mental Health, Substance Use, and Sex Education Resources for LGBTQ+ Young People."
This research, a collaboration with the UM School of Public Health and the Community Health Access
Initiative (CHAI), will be conducted
with Dan Delmonaco, Gary Harper, Amber Hughson, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, and Elliot Popoff.
March 26, 2020
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Grant funding received from Digital Studies Institute
NSF CAREER grant!
CHI 2020 Best Paper Award!
Paper accepted for CHI 2020
Paper published in Feminist Media Studies
Paper accepted for CSCW
Workshop at CSCW 2019
Article in Interactions Magazine
Quoted in WIRED article
Essay on pronoun sharing and disclosure
HCI Guidelines for Gender Equity and Inclusivity now online
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I was part of a team of researchers, led by Morgan Klaus Scheuerman,
who recently released a set of HCI
Guidelines for Gender Equity and Inclusivity. We hope that this will be a helpful
tool for researchers and writers who want to be respectful and inclusive about gender,
but don't know how.
June 3, 2019
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Paper accepted for JAMIA
Grant funding received from Institute for Research on Women & Gender
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I received an Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Transgender Health and Empowerment Seed Grant for my proposal
"Researching and Improving New Online Spaces to Support Transgender Wellbeing." This research will be
conducted with community partner Briar Baron and trans time.
April 19, 2019
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Work-in-progress paper accepted for DIS
Grant funding received from National Center for Institutional Diversity
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I received a National Center for Institutional Diversity
Grant to Support Research and Scholarship for Social Change for my proposal
"Major Life Events and Social Media in Contemporary Society:
Understanding Social Readjustment for Marginalized Populations." This research will be
conducted with co-PI Nicole Ellison and undergraduate research assistants AJ Carter,
Shanley Corvite, Alexxus Lige, and Brookelyn Wheeler.
March 7, 2019
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TOCHI paper will be presented at CHI 2019
Workshop paper accepted for CHI 2019
Accepted tenure track position at University of Michigan!
ICA panel accepted
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I will be presenting a paper called "Challenging 'Getting Better' Media Narratives
with Intersectional Transgender Lived Experiences" as part of an accepted panel at
the 2019
International Communication Association (ICA) Conference called “Rethinking (and
Retheorizing) Transgender Media Representation,” organized by Thomas J Billard.
February 21, 2019
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Short paper published in ASIST Proceedings
Grant funding received from University of Michigan's M-Cubed Program
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Along with collaborators Shanna Kattari
from UM's School of Social Work and Kristi Gamarel
from UM's School of Public Health, I received a research grant from U-M's M-Cubed
program for the project "Paging Dr. YouTube: Exploring How Trans/Nonbinary
Individuals Use Technology & Social Media to Access Trans Health Information."
December 9, 2018
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Research featured in Atlantic article
CSCW 2018 Best Paper Honorable Mention!
Quoted in Mashable article
Paper accepted for CSCW
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I'm very excited that my first paper from my dissertation research, and my first
solo-authored paper, was accepted for CSCW 2018!
The paper is titled "Social Media
as Social Transition Machinery."
Looking forward to sharing this work with everyone at the conference in November!
August 13, 2018
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Paper accepted for TOCHI
Piece published in First Monday
Joining University of Michigan!
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I am excited to announce that I will be joining University of Michigan's
School of Information in Fall 2018 as a President's Postdoctoral Fellow! I'm very
much looking forward to being part of the amazing community of researchers at UMSI
and starting this next phase of my academic career.
April 20, 2018
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Dissertation defense!
Workshop papers accepted for CHI 2018
James Harvey Scholar Award
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I am extremely honored to receive the 2018 James Harvey Scholar Award, for graduate
research on LGBTQ topics!
January 19, 2018
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In the past few years as I’ve been working on my PhD research about gender transition
and social media, I have compiled a list of all of the published research I have
come across about transgender people and digital technology, digital and social media,
and the Internet. The list is available here
and is sortable by author, year, title, item type, or publication venue. I wanted to
share my list so that it can be a resource for scholars who are also studying these
topics, or who may want to start doing research in this area!
January 2, 2018
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Feature article in XRDS Magazine
Paper accepted for Gender & IT 2018
Paper accepted for CHI 2018
Paper published in TACCESS
Gender & IT 2018 program committee
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I am serving on the program committee for Gender & IT 2018.
Consider submitting a paper!
The deadline is October 31, and accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital
Library.
July 21, 2017
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Paper accepted for New Media & Society
Paper accepted for ICWSM 2017
Queer Internet Studies Symposium 2 Video
Research featured in article on using data analytics for fire prevention
Workshop paper accepted for iConference 2017
CHI 2017 program committee
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I am serving on the program committee for CHI 2017's
Late Breaking Work
as an associate chair. Very excited to help with the paper reviewing process!
January 19, 2017
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Papers accepted for CHI 2017
Blog post on research ethics and visual social media content
Selected for CHI Doctoral Consortium
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I have been selected to be part of the CHI 2017
Doctoral Consortium! Extremely honored to be a part of this and get feedback on my
disseration work.
December 15, 2016
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Selected for iConference Doctoral Colloquium
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I have been selected to be part of the iConference 2017
Doctoral Colloquium! Excited to visit China and learn from the faculty and students
at the DC.
December 15, 2016
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Paper published in Social Media + Society
Dissertation proposal defense
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I'm excited to announce that I passed my dissertation proposal defense on "The Social
Complexities of Transgender Identity Disclosure on Social Network Sites" on October 6! Special thanks
to my committee members: Gillian Hayes, Gloria Mark, Bonnie Ruberg, and Andrea Forte
(Drexel University). I'm excited to move forward into this final phase of my PhD!
October 25, 2016
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Workshop paper accepted for Group 2016
KDD 2016 Best Student Paper Runner Up!
Paper published in First Monday
Workshop at NordiCHI 2016
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I am co-organizing a workshop for NordiCHI
2015 called
HCI and Sensitive Life Experiences, with Daniel Herron, Nazanin Andalibi, Wendy
Moncur, and Elise van den Hoven. The aim of the workshop is to identify current
opportunities for, as well as barriers to, design of social computing systems that
support people during sensitive life events and transitions. Join us in discussing
these topics and building a framework for research and design! The submission deadline
is August 22, 2016.
July 7, 2016
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Paper accepted for KDD 2016
Research featured in press on using data analytics for fire prevention
Internship at Microsoft Research this summer
Acceptance to Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme
Paper accepted for PLoS ONE
Talk at Trans*Studies Conference
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My abstract titled "Self-Presentation, Digital Footprints, and the Social
Complexities of Disclosure During Gender Transition on Facebook," co-authored with
Jed Brubaker, Lynn Dombrowski, and Gillian Hayes, was accepted for the
2016
Trans*Studies Conference! I'll be giving a 20 minute talk on this research.
March 26, 2016
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Submission accepted for Tapia Conference
CHI 2016 Best Paper Honorable Mention!
Talk at INSNA 2016 Sunbelt Conference
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My abstract titled "Intersections and Separations in Gender and Race-Focused Social
Media Movements," co-authored with Jürgen Pfeffer and Gillian Hayes, was accepted
for the INSNA 2016 Sunbelt
Conference! I'll be giving a 20 minute talk on this research.
February 2, 2016
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Workshop paper accepted for CHI 2016
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I have a workshop paper accepted for CHI 2016:
"Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Gender Categorization as Social Justice Issues in HCI",
co-authored with Nazanin Andalibi, has been accepted for the
Exploring Social Justice, Design, and HCI
workshop!
January 31, 2016
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Workshop paper accepted for CSCW 2016
Papers accepted for CHI 2016
I'm now a PhD Candidate!
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So excited to announce that I passed my PhD advancement to candidacy yesterday,
and I'm now a PhD Candidate! Thanks so much to my advancement committee for all of
their valuable feedback: Gillian Hayes (chair), Geof Bowker, Gloria Mark, Melissa
Mazmanian, and Tom Boellstorff.
December 4, 2015
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Poster accepted for iConference 2016
Student Volunteer co-chair for iConference 2016
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Nazanin Andalibi and I are Student Volunteer (SV) Co-Chairs for
iConference 2016! The conference will be held March 20-23 in Philadelphia. We
are looking for people to sign up for the SV lottery by filling out
this online form by November 30. For more information, please see the
Call for Student Volunteers.
November 6, 2015
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Paper accepted for CSCW 2016
Rob Kling Memorial Fellowship
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I am extremely honored to receive the UCI School of Information and Computer Science's
Rob Kling Memorial Fellowship for 2015-2016!
September 10, 2015
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Paper accepted for Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange
Blog post on Revisiting the Online/Offline Binary
Book review published on The Geek Anthropologist
Data Science for Social Good internship and research at Georgia Tech this summer
NSF GRFP award!
Paper accepted for TACCESS
Paper accepted for Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
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"Mobile Video Modeling for Employment Interviews for Individuals with Autism," an
article that I collaborated on with Gillian Hayes, Erick Custodio, Kathy Nguyen,
Kate Ringland, Rachel Rose Ulgado, Aaron Waterhouse, and Rachel Weiner, was accepted
for publication in
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation!
March 21, 2015
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Research featured in press on Facebook's custom gender options
CSCW 2015 Best Paper Honorable Mention!
Workshop papers accepted for CSCW 2015
Panel at CSCW 2015
Papers accepted for CHI 2015
Workshop at CHI 2015
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I am co-organizing a workshop for
CHI 2015 called
Between the Lines: Reevaluating the Online/Offline Binary, with Sarah Vieweg,
Michael Massimi, Kenton O'Hara, and Elizabeth Churchill. Is thinking about identities,
spaces, behaviors, and communities as "online" vs. "offline" still useful? Join us
in discussing these topics and building a framework for research and design!
Extended abstract is here.
December 15, 2014
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Poster accepted for iConference 2015
Workshop at iConference 2015
Paper accepted for CSCW 2015
Faculty Mentor Program (FMP) Fellowship
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I am excited to announce that I have been awarded a
UC Irvine Faculty Mentor Program (FMP) Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic
year to work with Dr. Gillian Hayes! This fellowship is designed to increase the
number of students who complete their PhD degree and successfully acquire a faculty
appointment.
June 5, 2014
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Autism AppJam
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My team's project
DanceCraft won second place overall at the
UCI Autism AppJam! We also won the Best Social Media Presence award. DanceCraft
is an interactive game that uses the Kinect to incentivize physical activity for
children with autism through dance therapy. My role was developing the user interface.
Team DanceCraft includes Kate Ringland, Mengyao Zhao, Nathan Major, Khalidh Tokhi,
and myself.
May 4, 2014
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Survey deployment
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I am looking for people to participate in a research study about gender transition
on social networking sites. Are you a transgender or gender non-conforming person
who has experienced transitioning on a social networking site like Facebook? If so,
please consider sharing your experiences by taking an online survey.
Please share with people in your network who may be willing to help out with this
research. Thanks! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/transSNS
April 17, 2014
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NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
I won an infographic contest
Internship at eBay Research Labs this summer
Presentation at AGS Symposium
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I was selected to participate in the first annual
AGS Symposium at UC Irvine! I will be giving a short presentation of my
research on analyzing sexual health-related language in online personal ads.
March 3, 2014
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Workshop paper accepted for CHI 2014 Designing Technology for Major Life Events
workshop
Project accepted for Social Media Expo 2014
Paper accepted for CHI 2014
I'm starting my PhD in Informatics at U.C. Irvine!
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