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Senami Kojah, Kentaro Toyama, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2025. Silencing the Voiceless: Social Media Content Moderation for At Risk Marginalized Populations in High-Stakes Violence and Human Rights Contexts in Nigeria.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (CSCW 2025).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Kat Brewster, Aloe DeGuia, Samuel Mayworm, F. Ria Khan, Mel Monier, Denny L. Starks, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2025.
"That Moment of Curiosity": Augmented Reality Face Filters for Transgender Identity Exploration, Gender Affirmation, and Radical Possibility.
In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).
[open-access link] [PDF] [video]
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F. Ria Khan, Kat Brewster, Aloe DeGuia, Denny L. Starks, Malaya Mañacop, Samuel Mayworm, Tawanna R. Dillahunt, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2025.
Cataloging Augmented, Ambivalent Transgender Futures: Designing Inclusive AR Technologies for Trans Communities Through Speculative, Participatory Zine-Making.
In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).
[open-access link] [PDF] [video]
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Caoyang Shen and Oliver L. Haimson. 2025.
The Virtual Jail: Content Moderation Challenges Faced by Chinese Queer Content Creators on Douyin.
In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).
[open-access link] [PDF] [video]
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Ben Zefeng Zhang, Tianling Yang, Milagros Miceli, Oliver L. Haimson, and Michaelanne Thomas. 2025.
The Making of Performative Accuracy in AI Training: Precision Labor and Its Consequences.
In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).
[open-access link] [PDF] [video]
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Rose Bohrer, Shano Liang, Michelle V. Cormier, Takao Fujii, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas,
Rua Mae Williams, Amy J. Ko, Katie Seaborn, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2025. Transnational lgbTq+ SIG.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2025.
The Fear of Traveling as a Trans Person.
TIME Magazine.
[link]
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Senami Kojah, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Carolina Are, Daniel Delmonaco, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2025. "Dialing it Back:" Shadowbanning, Invisible Digital Labor, and How Marginalized
Content Creators Attempt to Mitigate the Impacts of Opaque Platform Governance.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (GROUP 2025).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Tee Chuanromanee, Oliver L. Haimson, and Ronald Metoyer.
2023. Using Discord in the Community, and Other Means of Online Collective Trans Care: Decision-making and Storytelling in Online Transgender Health Support Groups.
Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Aloe DeGuia, Rana Saber, and Kat Brewster.
2024. Extended Reality Trans Technologies: Bridging Digital and Physical Worlds to Support Transgender People.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (CSCW 2024).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Li Qiwei, Allison McDonald, Oliver L. Haimson, Sarita Schoenebeck, and Eric Gilbert.
2024. The Sociotechnical Stack: Opportunities for Social Computing Research in Non-consensual Intimate Media.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (CSCW 2024).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Kat Brewster and Oliver L. Haimson. 2024.
Hostile Digital Archives: Dynamic Risks and Records of Queer and Trans Life Online.
AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.
[link] [PDF]
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Ben Zefeng Zhang, Tianling Yang, Oliver L. Haimson, and Michaelanne Thomas. 2024.
Conceptualizing Precision Labor in Artificial Intelligence Training.
AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Pelle Tracey, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Patricia Garcia, Oliver L. Haimson, and Michaelanne Thomas. 2024.
The Technopolitics of Waiting: Case Studies of AI Training in China and Homeless Services Systems in the U.S.
AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Samuel Mayworm, Kendra Albert, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2024. Misgendered During Moderation: How Trans Bodies Make Visible Cisnormative Content Moderation Policies and Enforcement on Social Media Platforms.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency (FAccT).
[open-access link] [PDF] [press]
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Hibby Thach, Samuel Mayworm, Michaelanne Thomas, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2024. Trans-Centered Moderation: Trans Technology Creators and Centering Transness in Platform and Community Governance.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency (FAccT).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Samuel Mayworm, Shannon Li, Hibby Thach, Daniel Delmonaco, Christian Paneda, Andrea Wegner, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2024. The Online Identity Help Center: Designing and Developing a Content Moderation Policy Resource for Marginalized Social Media Users.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (CSCW 2024).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Cassidy Pyle, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Oliver L. Haimson, and Nazanin Andalibi.
2024. "I'm Constantly in This Dilemma": How Migrant Technology Professionals Perceive Social Media Recommendation Algorithms.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (CSCW 2024).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Daniel Delmonaco, Samuel Mayworm, Josh Guberman, Hibby Thach, Aurelia Augusta, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2024. "What are you doing, TikTok?": How Marginalized Social Media Users Perceive, Theorize, and "Prove" Shadowbanning.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (CSCW 2024).
[open-access link] [PDF] [press]
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Kiara Fletcher, Maahe Kazmi, Adam Aljundi, Jordyn Ingram, Heaven Thomas, Kayla Booth, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2024.
Doc on the Tok: How BIPOC College Students Perceive Healthcare Professionals’ Social Media Content.
iConference.
[link] [PDF]
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Samuel Mayworm, Michael Ann DeVito, Daniel Delmonaco, Hibby Thach, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2024. Content Moderation Folk Theories and Perceptions of Platform Spirit Among Marginalized Social Media Users.
ACM Transactions on Social Computing, (CSCW 2024).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Avery Everhart, Kristi Gamarel, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2024. Technology for Transgender Healthcare: Access, Precarity & Community Care.
Social Science & Medicine (special issue on Unequal Care: Trans Medicine and Health in Dangerous Times).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Jules Madzia, Tee Chuanromanee, Gaines Blasdel, Aloe DeGuia,
Mary Byrnes, Nabeel Shakir, Megan Lane, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2023. Gender-Affirming Surgeons’ Attitudes toward Social Media Communication with Patients.
Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS).
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2023.
Exploring the Current Landscape of Trans Technology Design.
AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Daniel Delmonaco, Shannon Li, Christian Paneda, Elliot Popoff, Luna Hughson, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, Jack Alferio, Christian Stephenson, Angelique Henry, Kiandra Powdhar, Isabella Gierlinger, Gary W. Harper, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2023.
Community-Engaged Participatory Methods to Address LGBTQ+ Young People’s Health Information Needs With a Resource Website: Participatory Design and Development Study.
JMIR Formative Research.
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Kai Nham, Hibby Thach, and Aloe DeGuia. 2023.
How Transgender People and Communities Were Involved in Trans Technology Design Processes.
In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23).
[open-access link] [PDF] [video]
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Lauren Wilcox, Renee Shelby, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Oliver L. Haimson, Gabi Erickson, Michael Turken, and Beka Gulotta. 2023.
Infrastructuring Care Ecologies: How Trans and Non-Binary People
Meet Health and Well-Being Needs through Technology.
In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23).
Best Paper Award
[open-access link] [PDF] [video]
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Oliver L. Haimson and Megh Marathe. 2023. Uncovering Personal Histories:
A Technology-Mediated Approach to Eliciting Reflection on Identity Transitions.
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (special issue on
(Re)Connecting History to the Theory and Praxis of HCI).
[open-access link] [PDF] [video]
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Josh Guberman and Oliver L. Haimson. 2023. Not Robots; Cyborgs — Furthering Anti-Ableist Research in Human-Computer Interaction.
First Monday (special issue on
This feature has been disabled: Critical intersections
of disability and information studies).
[open-access link]
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Ben Zefeng Zhang, Oliver L. Haimson, and Michaelanne Thomas. 2022. The Chinese
Diaspora and The Attempted WeChat Ban: Platform Precarity, Anticipated Impacts, and
Infrastructural Migration. Proceedings of the ACM
Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (CSCW 2022).
[link] [PDF] [video]
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Ben Zefeng Zhang, Tianxiao Liu, Shanley Corvite, Nazanin Andalibi, and Oliver L. Haimson.
2022. Separate Online Networks During Life Transitions: Support, Identity, and
Challenges in Social Media and Online Communities. Proceedings of the ACM
Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (CSCW 2022).
[link] [PDF] [video]
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Shanley Corvite, Ben Zefeng Zhang, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2022. Social Media's
Role During Identity Changes Related to Major Life Events. Proceedings of the ACM
Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), (CSCW 2022).
[link] [PDF] [video]
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Hibby Thach, Samuel Mayworm, Daniel Delmonaco, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2022.
(In)visible moderation: A digital ethnography of marginalized users and content moderation on Twitch and Reddit.
New Media & Society.
[link] [PDF] [press]
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Daniel Delmonaco and Oliver L. Haimson. 2022. "Nothing That I was Specifically
Looking For": LGBTQ+ Youth and Intentional Sexual Health Information Seeking.
Journal of LGBT Youth.
[link] [PDF] [press]
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Daniel Delmonaco, Shannon Li, Christian Paneda, Luna Hughson, Elliot Popoff, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak,
Gary W. Harper, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2022. Information Needs for an Online
Resource for LGBTQ+ Young People: Mental Health, Sexual Health, and Navigating Services.
Currents: Journal of Diversity Scholarship for Social Change (special issue on Mental Health among Marginalized Communities).
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Daniel Delmonaco, Peipei Nie, and Andrea Wegner.
2021. Disproportionate Removals and Differing Content Moderation Experiences for Conservative, Transgender, and Black Social Media Users: Marginalization and Moderation Gray Areas
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (CSCW 2021).
Honorable Mention Award
Recognition for Contribution to Diversity & Inclusion
[open-access link] [PDF] [video] [summary]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Tianxiao Liu, Ben Zefeng Zhang, and Shanley Corvite.
2021. The Online Authenticity Paradox: What Being "Authentic" on Social Media Means, and Barriers to Achieving It.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (CSCW 2021).
[link] [PDF] [video]
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Shakira L. Smith, Oliver L. Haimson, Claire Fitzsimmons, and Nikki Echarte Brown (a community report by the Salty Algorithmic Bias Collective).
2021. Censorship of Marginalized Communities on Instagram. Salty.
[link]
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Justin Buss, Hayden Le, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2021.
Transgender identity management across social media platforms.
Media, Culture & Society.
[link] [PDF]
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Taika Augustaitis, Leland Merrill, Kristi E. Gamarel, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2021.
Online Transgender Health Information Seeking: Facilitators, Barriers, and Future Directions.
In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21).
[open-access link] [PDF]
[video]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2021. Online Communities. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. SAGE Publications, Inc.
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, AJ Carter, Shanley Corvite, Brookelyn Wheeler, Lingbo Wang, Tianxiao Liu, and Alexxus Lige.
2021. The Major Life Events Taxonomy: Social Readjustment, Social Media Information Sharing,
and Online Network Separation During Times of Life Transition.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).
[open-access link] [PDF] [taxonomy]
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Sarita Schoenebeck, Oliver L. Haimson, and Lisa Nakamura. 2021.
Drawing from Justice Theories to Support Targets of Online Harassment.
New Media & Society.
[link] [PDF] [press]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Justin Buss, Zu Weinger, Denny L. Starks, Dykee Gorrell, and Briar Sweetbriar Baron.
2020. Trans Time: Safety, Privacy, and Content Warnings on a Transgender-Specific Social Media Site.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (CSCW 2020).
[link] [PDF] [video]
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Tianxiao Liu, Jasmine Glover, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2020.
Reasons for Sharing With Separate Social Media Audiences During Life Transitions.
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CSCW Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
[link] [PDF]
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Daniel Delmonaco, Gabriela Marcu, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2020.
Search Engines and the Sex Education Information Practices of LGBTQ+ Youth.
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).
[link]
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Daniel Delmonaco, Oliver L. Haimson, and Gabriela Marcu. 2020.
Community-Based Development of LGBTQ+ Health Information Resources.
Proceedings of Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE).
[link]
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Thomas J Billard, Traci B. Abbott, Oliver L. Haimson, Kelsey N. Whipple, Stephenson Brooks Whitestone, and Erique Zhang. 2020.
Rethinking (and Retheorizing) Transgender Media Representation: A Roundtable Discussion.
International Journal of Communication.
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Dykee Gorrell, Denny L. Starks, and Zu Weinger. 2020.
Designing Trans Technology: Defining Challenges and Envisioning Community-Centered Solutions.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Best Paper Award
[link] [PDF] [blog]
[video] [video] [images]
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Oliver L. Haimson and Tiffany C. Veinot. 2020.
Coming Out to Doctors, Coming Out to 'Everyone': Understanding the Average Sequence of Transgender Identity Disclosures Using Social Media Data.
Transgender Health.
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2020.
Challenging "Getting Better" Social Media Narratives With Intersectional Transgender Lived Experiences.
Social Media + Society.
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Koustuv Saha, Sang Chan Kim, Manikanta D. Reddy, Albert J. Carter, Eva Sharma, Oliver L. Haimson, and Munmun De Choudhury. 2019.
The Language of LGBTQ+ Minority Stress Experiences on Social Media.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (CSCW 2019).
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Avery Dame-Griff, Elias Capello, and Zahari Richter. 2019.
Tumblr was a Trans Technology: The Meaning, Importance, History, and Future of Trans Technologies.
Feminist Media Studies.
[open-access link] [PDF] [blog]
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Katta Spiel, Oliver L. Haimson, and Danielle Lottridge. 2019.
How to Do Better with Gender on Surveys: A Guide for HCI Researchers.
ACM Interactions Magazine.
[link] [PDF] [blog]
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Denny Starks, Tawanna Dillahunt, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2019.
Designing Technology to Support Safety for Transgender Women & Non-Binary People of Color.
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Companion Publication.
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2019.
Mapping Gender Transition Sentiment Patterns via
Social Media Data: Toward Decreasing Transgender Mental Health Disparities.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) (special issue on Health Informatics and Health Equity:
Improving Our Reach and Impact).
[open-access link] [PDF] [blog]
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Blake W. Hawkins, Nazanin Andalibi, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2019.
Helpful Information to Whom? An Intersectional Critique of the ‘It Gets Better Project'.
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).
[link]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2018. Social Media as Social Transition Machinery.
Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (CSCW 2018).
Honorable Mention Award
[link] [PDF] [blog]
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Nazanin Andalibi, Oliver L. Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, and Andrea Forte. 2018.
Social Support, Reciprocity, and Anonymity in Responses to Sexual Abuse Disclosures on Social Media.
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).
[link] [PDF]
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Mia Fischer, Oliver L. Haimson, Carmen Rios, Adrienne Shaw, Mitali Thakor, Jen Jack Gieseking, and Daniel Cockayne. 2018.
A Conversation: Queer Digital Media Resources and Research.
First Monday (special issue on Queer Internet Studies).
[open-access link]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2018.
The Social Complexities of Transgender Identity Disclosure on Social Media.
Doctoral dissertation.
University of California, Irvine.
[link]
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Blake W. Hawkins and Oliver L. Haimson. 2018.
Building an Online Community of Care: Tumblr Use by Transgender Individuals.
Proceedings of GEWINN / Gender & IT Conference.
[link]
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Samantha Jaroszewski, Danielle Lottridge, Oliver L. Haimson, and Katie Quehl. 2018.
“Genderfluid” or “Attack Helicopter”: Responsible HCI Research Practice with
Non-Binary Gender Variation in Online Communities.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson. 2017.
Digital and Physical Barriers to Changing Identities.
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students.
[link] [PDF]
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Mark S. Baldwin, Gillian R. Hayes, Jennifer Mankoff, Oliver L. Haimson, and
Scott E. Hudson. 2017.
The Tangible Desktop: A Multimodal Approach to Nonvisual Computing.
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS).
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Nazanin Andalibi, Munmun De Choudhury, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2017.
Relationship Breakup Disclosures and Media Ideologies on Facebook.
New Media and Society.
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson and Gillian R. Hayes. 2017.
ICWSM Conference on Web and Social Media.
[link] [PDF] [blog]
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Oliver L. Haimson and John C. Tang. 2017.
What Makes Live Events Engaging on Facebook Live, Periscope, and Snapchat.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[link] [PDF] [blog]
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Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, Oliver L. Haimson, Nazanin Andalibi, Melissa Mazmanian, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2017.
Class Confessions: Restorative Properties in Online Experiences of Socioeconomic Stigma.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[link] [PDF]
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Rena Bivens and Oliver L. Haimson. Baking Gender Into Social Media Design: How Platforms Shape Categories for Users
and Advertisers. 2016. Social Media + Society (special issue on Making Digital Cultures of Gender and
Sexuality with Social Media).
[open-access link] [PDF] [blog]
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Michael Madaio, Shang-Tse Chen, Oliver L. Haimson, Wenwen Zhang, Xiang
Cheng, Matthew Hinds-Aldrich, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, and Bistra Dilikina. 2016.
Firebird: Predicting Fire Risk and Prioritizing Fire Inspections in Atlanta.
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award
[link] [PDF] [site]
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Oliver L. Haimson and Anna Lauren Hoffmann. 2016.
Constructing and Enforcing "Authentic" Identity Online: Facebook, Real Names, and
Non-Normative Identities.
First Monday (special issue on A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical
Perspectives, and Beyond).
[open-access link]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Jed R. Brubaker, Lynn Dombrowski, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2016.
Digital Footprints and Changing Networks During Online Identity Transitions.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Honorable Mention Award
[link] [PDF]
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Nazanin Andalibi, Oliver L. Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, and Andrea Forte. 2016.
Understanding Social Media Disclosures of Sexual Abuse Through the Lenses of Support Seeking and
Anonymity.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[link] [PDF]
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John Schomberg, Oliver L. Haimson, Gillian R. Hayes, and Hoda Anton-Culver. 2016.
Supplementing Public Health Inspection via Social Media.
PLoS ONE.
[open-access link] [PDF]
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Corrin Morgan, Aaron Noble, Erica Alexander, Jerome Watts, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2016.
#ReproHealth: A State-Based Investigation of Reproductive Health Rights Policy and
Social Media Activity.
iConference.
[link] [PDF]
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Jessica Pater, Oliver L. Haimson, Nazanin Andalibi, and Elizabeth Mynatt. 2016.
“Hunger Hurts but Starving Works:” Characterizing the Presentation of Eating Disorders
Online.
ACM CSCW Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
[link] [PDF]
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Gillian R. Hayes, V. Erick Custodio, Oliver L. Haimson, Kathy Nguyen, Kathryn
E. Ringland, Rachel Rose Ulgado, Aaron Waterhouse, and Rachel Weiner. 2015.
Mobile Video Modeling for Employment Interviews for Individuals with Autism.
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.
[link]
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LouAnne E. Boyd, Kathryn E. Ringland, Oliver L. Haimson, Helen Fernandez,
Maria Bistarkey, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2015. Evaluating a Collaborative iPad Game’s Impact on Social Relationships for
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS).
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Anne E. Bowser, Edward F. Melcer, and Elizabeth F. Churchill. 2015.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[link] [PDF]
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Anne E. Bowser, Oliver L. Haimson, Edward F. Melcer, and Elizabeth F. Churchill. 2015.
On Vintage Values: The Experience of Secondhand Fashion Reacquisition.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Jed R. Brubaker, Courtney Loder, Lynn Dombrowski, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2015.
User Response to Facebook’s Custom Gender Options. iConference.
[PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Jed R. Brubaker, Lynn Dombrowski, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2015.
Disclosure, Stress, and Support During Gender Transition on Facebook.
ACM CSCW Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
Honorable Mention Award
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Jed R. Brubaker, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2014.
DDF Seeks Same: Sexual Health-Related Language in Online Personal Ads For Men
Who Have Sex With Men.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson, Kathryn E. Ringland, Simone Lanette, and Christine T. Wolf. 2014.
Using Depression Analytics to Reduce Stigma via Social Media: BlueFriends.
iConference (Social Media Expo).
[link] [PDF]
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Oliver L. Haimson and Josh Cartagena. 2013.
Information Occupation: Using Information Science to Explore Occupy Wall Street.
iConference.
[link] [PDF]
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Rose Bohrer, Shano Liang, Michelle Cormier, Takao Fujii, Phoeve Dugas, Rua Williams,
Amy Ko, Katie Seaborn, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2025. Transnational lgbTq+ SIG.
SIG at CHI.
[link] [PDF]
Tamara Clegg, Tawanna Dillahunt, Sheena Erete, Oliver L. Haimson, Neha Kumar, Amanda Lazar, Yolanda Rankin, and Katta Spiel. 2024.
Navigating Tensions, Managing Conflict, and Reaching Academic Harmony in HCI. Panel at CSCW.
[link] [PDF]
Michael Ann DeVito, Ada Lerner, Oliver L. Haimson, Amy Ko, Danaë Metaxa, and Phoebe Toups Dugas.
2024. Computing and Information Sciences as a Partner for the Post-Discipline.
Panel at 2nd International Trans Studies Conference.
Anh-Ton Tran, Annabel Rothschild, Kay Kender, Ekat Osipova, Brian Kinnee, Jordan Taylor, Louie Søs Meyer, Oliver L. Haimson, Ann Light, and Carl Disalvo.
2024. Making Trouble: Techniques for Queering Data and AI Systems.
Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS).
[open-access link] [PDF] [workshop website]
Oliver L. Haimson, George Hoagland, Laura Horak, and SA Smythe. 2023.
Technological Potentials for Trans Media, Love, and Solidarity.
Roundtable at American Studies Association.
Oliver L. Haimson, Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Alex Hanna, and TJ Billard. 2022. Applied
Transgender Technology Studies Symposium.
[link]
Oliver L. Haimson, Bryan Semaan, Brianna Dym, Joey Chiao-Yin Hsiao, Daniel Herron, and Wendy Moncur. 2019.
Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change. Workshop at CSCW.
[link] [PDF] [site]
Daniel Herron, Nazanin Andalibi, Oliver L. Haimson, Wendy Moncur, and Elise van den Hoven. 2016.
HCI and Sensitive Life Experiences.
Workshop at NordiCHI.
[link] [PDF]
Sarah Vieweg, Oliver L. Haimson, Michael Massimi, Kenton O'Hara, and Elizabeth F. Churchill. 2015.
Between the Lines: Reevaluating the Online/Offline Binary.
Workshop at CHI.
[link] [PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson, Amanda Menking, Jordan Eschler, Ingrid Erickson, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2015.
Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media Data.
Workshop at iConference.
[link] [PDF]
Mark Handel, Rena Bivens, Jed R. Brubaker, Oliver L. Haimson, Jessa Lingel, and
Svetlana Yarosh. 2015.
Facebooking in "Face:" Complex Identities Meet Simple Databases.
Panel at CSCW.
[link] [PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson. 2024. Teaching About Social Media and Online Communities.
CSCW workshop on Toward a Unified Framework for Social Computing Undergraduate and Graduate Education.
Senami Kojah and Oliver L. Haimson. 2024.
From Frying Pan to Fire: A Case For Documenting African Climate Migrant Experiences with Violence and Human Rights Violation on Social Media.
CSCW workshop on HCI, Mobility Justice, and Migration in the Face of Climate Crisis.
[PDF]
Aloe DeGuia and Oliver L. Haimson. 2023.
Intersectional Trans-feminist Futures in HCI.
CSCW workshop on A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder: Theories and Methods That Can Make a Difference.
[PDF]
Senami Kojah and Oliver L. Haimson. 2023.
A Case for Digital Sovereignty of Indigeneity in HCI Research Projects.
CSCW workshop on Conceptualizing Indigeneity in Social Computing.
[PDF]
Ben Zefeng Zhang, Oliver L. Haimson, and Michaelanne Thomas. 2023.
The Labor of Training Artificial Intelligence: Data Infrastructure, Mobility, and Marginality.
CHI workshop on Behind the Scenes of Automation: Ghostly Care-Work, Maintenance, and Interference.
[PDF]
Ben Zefeng Zhang, Michaelanne Dye, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2021.
The Chinese Diaspora: Overlapping Life Transitions, Barriers, and HCI.
CHI workshop on Migration and Mobility in HCI: Rethinking Boundaries, Methods, and Impact.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson. 2019. Gender Inclusivity at SIGCHI.
CHInclusion Workshop.
[PDF]
Blake W. Hawkins, Oliver L. Haimson, and Nazanin Andalibi. 2018.
It Gets Better, But it Takes More Than a YouTube Video: Reconsidering Online Mental Health Campaigns.
CHI Symposium on Computing and Mental Health.
[PDF]
Blake W. Hawkins and Oliver L. Haimson. 2018.
Creating Online Places of Care: The Experiences of Transgender People Using Tumblr to Maintain Positive Mental Health.
CHI Design for Sexual Wellbeing workshop.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson. 2017.
Opportunities and Challenges for Transgender People in Digital Spaces.
iConference Workshop on Vulnerable Communities in the Digital Age.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson and John C. Tang. 2016.
Ethical Obligations When Asking Research Participants to View Unpredictable Content.
ACM Group Ethics Workshop.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson and Nazanin Andalibi. 2016.
Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Gender Categorization as Social Justice Issues in HCI.
CHI Workshop on Exploring Social Justice, Design, and HCI.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson and Nazanin Andalibi. 2016.
Social Signaling on Facebook After Relationship Dissolution.
CSCW Workshop on Unpacking Social Signaling Theory for Social Computing Systems
Analysis and Design.
[PDF]
Michael Madaio, Oliver L. Haimson, Wenwen Zhang, Xiang Cheng, Matthew Hinds-Aldrich,
Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, and Bistra Dilikina. 2015.
Identifying and Prioritizing Fire Inspections: A Case Study of Predicting Fire Risk in
Atlanta.
Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson and Gillian R. Hayes. 2015.
Toward Trans Inclusion in Feminist HCI.
CSCW Workshop on Feminism and Feminist Approaches in Social Computing.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson, Kathryn E. Ringland, and Gillian R. Hayes. 2015.
Marginalized Populations and Research Ethics Online.
CSCW Workshop on Ethics for Studying Sociotechnical Systems in a Big Data World.
[PDF]
Oliver L. Haimson and Gillian R. Hayes. 2014.
Understanding Gender Transition on Social Media to Design Technology for Changing
Identities.
CHI Workshop on Designing Technology for Major Life Events.
[PDF]
Kendra Albert and Oliver L. Haimson. 2022.
Comments in Oversight Board Gender Identity and Nudity Case.
[link]
Oliver L. Haimson. 2021.
Social Media Sites are Censoring Transgender, Black, and Conservative Users – But for Very Different Reasons.
Salty.
[link]
Oliver L. Haimson and Lee Airton. 2019.
Making Space for Them, Her, Him, and "Prefer not to Disclose" in Group Settings: Why Pronoun-Sharing is Important but Must Remain Optional.
National Center for Institutional Diversity.
[link]
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Katta Spiel, Oliver L. Haimson, Foad Hamidi, and Stacy M. Branham. 2019.
HCI Guidelines for Gender Equity and Inclusivity.
[link]
Oliver L. Haimson. 2018.
Why "Standing in Your Identity Corner" Doesn’t Work: Against Forced Disclosure of Marginalized Identities as Casual Icebreakers.
National Center for Institutional Diversity.
[link]
Oliver L. Haimson, Nazanin Andalibi, and Jessica Pater. 2016.
Ethical Use of Visual Social Media Content in Research Publications.
Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services (AHRECS) Research Ethics Monthly blog.
[link]
Nazanin Andalibi and Oliver L. Haimson. 2015.
Revisiting the Online/Offline Binary: Conceptualizing Factors Influencing Self-disclosure.
Complicating the On/Offline Binary blog.
[link]
Oliver L. Haimson. 2015.
Book Review: Allucquère Rosanne Stone’s The War of Desire and Technology at the
Close of the Mechanical Age, Twenty Years On.
The Geek Anthropologist.
[link]
Research Explores How Trans Technologies are Removing Barriers to Access and Visibility. 2025.
Jae Moore, GLAAD.
[link]
Participants from Across the U.S. Attended the SC&I LIS Symposium "Examining Critical Sociotechnical Challenges in Information Science". 2025.
Rutgers School of Communication and Information.
[link]
Trans Bookworm Series: Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson. 2025.
Plume.
[link]
U-M professor explores relationship between trans people and technology in new book. 2025.
Natalia Holtzman, Concentrate.
[link]
Why We Need Trans Tech In 2025. 2025.
Anita Rao and Kaia Findlay, WUNC Embodied radio show and podcast.
[link]
How Tech Can Empower Trans Communities: This Michigan Author Explores the Possibilities. 2025.
Jordyn Bradley, Pride Source.
[link]
Oliver Haimson talks about the changing social media landscape. 2025.
Jared Wadley, Michigan Minds podcast.
[link]
TikTok’s 12-Hour Blackout. 2025.
The Michigan Daily, The Daily Weekly podcast.
[link]
Anti-fascist tech is possible: Trans tech creators show how to urgently center community needs. 2025.
JD Shadel, ESC KEY .CO.
[link]
New book "Trans Technologies" maps 100 radical projects — and why they matter right now. 2025.
JD Shadel, ESC KEY .CO.
[link]
How trans people use technology to fight back against aggression. 2025.
Chase DiBenedetto, Mashable; Yahoo!Tech.
[link] [link]
Trans Technologies w/ Oliver Haimson. 2025.
Cara Santa Maria, Talk Nerdy podcast.
[link]
New book by Oliver Haimson explores how transgender people create new possibilities with technology. 2025.
Noor Hindi, University of Michigan School of Information News.
[link]
Must-Have Monday. 2025.
Sia, Every Book a Door.
[link]
February 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us. 2025.
Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine.
[link]
Taking your book public for broader impact. 2025.
Laura Portwood-Stacer, The Manuscript Works Newsletter.
[link]
New Releases: February 2025. 2025.
Dahlia Adler, LGBTQ Reads.
[link]
California lawmakers are big on TikTok. What happens if Trump bans the app? 2025.
Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times.
[link]
Professor weighs in on Trump's proposed 'two genders' policy. 2025.
Samantha Mesa, Fox 17 News West Michigan.
[link]
Michigan TikTok users welcome platform's return, but expert says challenges remain. 2025.
Kim Kozlowski, The Detroit News.
[link]
live news interview about TikTok ban. 2025.
Robert Davidek, WWJ News Radio 950, Detroit.
TikTok ban: U-M experts can comment. 2025.
Jared Wadley, Michigan News.
[link]
TikTok ban poised to disrupt information ecosystem, livelihood of millions of users. 2025.
Paige Gross, States Newsroom; Yahoo!News; AOL.
[link] [link] [link]
Is the TikTok Ban Really Going to Happen? What We Know. 2025.
Lex McMenamin, Liv McConnell, & Marilyn La Jeunesse, Teen Vogue.
[link]
The Future of TikTok. 2025.
Samantha Mesa, Fox 17 News West Michigan.
[video]
Supreme Court considers TikTok ban amid national security concerns. 2025.
Ann Arbor Times.
[link]
TikTok’s case could set a precedent for social media app bans. 2025.
Jared Wadley, Michigan News; Tech Xplore.
[link] [link] [video]
More misinformation expected as Meta seeks to end fact-checking program. 2025.
Jared Wadley, Michigan News.
[link]
From TransTape to risk maps, how trans people use technology. 2024.
Henry Carnell, Washington Blade; News is Out.
[link] [link]
In the New Year. Scott McLemee looks ahead to select spring 2025 university press releases. 2024.
Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed.
[link]
Study: Transgender and nonbinary social media users experience disproportionate content removals on social media. 2024.
Noor Hindi, University of Michigan School of Information News.
[link]
A Viral Threat: Potential TikTok ban worries Michigan content creators. 2024. Myesha Johnson, The Detroit News.
[link]
TikTok: U-M experts available as the clock ticks on social media sale or ban. 2024.
Jared Wadley, Michigan News.
[link]
Study looks at ‘shadowbanning’ of marginalized social media users. 2024.
Jared Wadley, The University Record.
[link]
Shadowbanning: Some marginalized social media users believe their content is suppressed. 2024.
Jared Wadley, Michigan News; Tech Xplore.
[link] [link]
AI & The Binary. 2023.
Krystina Edwards and I'Sha Schultz-Spradlin, Voices of REC podcast.
[link]
'Hugely damaging': Most Americans are being harassed online when using Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. 2023.
Itzel Luna, USA Today.
[link]
They’re Over Being Real. 2023.
Callie Holtermann, The New York Times.
[link]
After Two Weeks, Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Already in a Right-Wing Death Spiral. 2022.
JD Shadel, Them.
[link]
Tumblr is bringing back nudity, reversing the infamous 2018 porn ban. 2022.
Jonny Walfisz, euronews.culture.
[link]
Gen Z Is on a Never-Ending Search for Online Authenticity. 2022.
Sofia Barnett, Daily Beast.
[link]
The Plight of the Former Fanfiction Author. 2022.
Casey Fiesler, Slate.
[link]
Moderating online content increases accountability, but can harm some platform users. 2022.
Jared Wadley, Michigan News.
[link]
Social media filters are helping people explore their gender identity. 2022.
Elizabeth Anne Brown, MIT Technology Review.
[link]
Profiles in IT: Oliver Haimson—Researcher & advocate. 2021.
D. Stephanie Dacola, Michigan IT.
What is the Future of Gender? 2021.
Rose Eveleth, Flash Forward podcast.
[link]
A History of AI Bias: Achieving Algorithmic Justice for the LGBTQ Community. 2021.
Payal Dhar, Dell Technologies Perspectives.
[link]
Exploring Gender Transition and Disclosure in Social Technology. 2021.
Erica Colaianne, Michigan Minds podcast.
[link]
Publicly shaming harassers may be popular but it doesn’t bring justice. 2020.
Laurel Thomas, Michigan News; Phys.org; Futurity; China.org.cn.
[link] [link] [link] [link]
LGBTQ+ Youth Prefer to Seek Mental Health Help Digitally. 2019.
Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED.
[link]
Actually, We Should Not All Use They/Them Pronouns: A response to a recent Scientific American essay. 2019.
Alex Hanna, Nikki L Stevens, Os Keyes, Maliha Ahmed, Scientific American.
[link]
What Tumblr's Porn Ban Really Means. 2018.
Steven W. Thrasher, The Atlantic.
[link]
Asking People to Google Their Questions About the LGBTQ Community is Appealing -
But Risky. 2018.
Heather Dockray, Mashable.
[link]
Can Algorithms Predict House Fires? 2017.
Jonathan Jay, Data-Smart City Solutions.
[link]
Embracing Analytics: How Communities Around the Country are Utilizing Data Analytics to
Predict a Host of Risk Factors and Reduce Fires. 2016.
Jesse Roman, National Fire Protection Association Journal.
Thinking Deep Thoughts, Helping Others, and Traveling the World: The Perks of a Career
in Research. 2016.
Hannah Hiles, i3 Alert Newsletter.
[link]
How Male Rape Survivors are Finding Help Online: Researchers Find That Men Use Throwaway
Reddit Accounts to Disclose Sexual Abuse — Some for the Very First Time. 2016.
Tracy Clark-Flory and Leigh Cuen, Vocativ.com.
Sexual Assault Survivors, Especially Men, Find Refuge in Online Anonymity: Drexel Study
Examines Anonymous Posts About Abuse on Reddit. 2016.
Sharon Lurye, PhillyVoice.com.
[link]
Survivors of Sexual Abuse Find Support in Online 'Anonymity.' 2016.
Britt Faulstick, Drexel News.
[link]
When Computing Equals Social Good. 2015.
Georgia Tech College of Computing.
Facebook is Now Allowing Users to Identify as Any Gender They Want. 2015.
Jorge Rivas, Splinter (originally published on Fusion.net).
[link]
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