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When Sounds Hurt and Voices Aren't Heard: An Experience Report on Misophonia, Sensory Trauma, and Trauma-Informed Design
Tawfiq Ammari
This experience report reflects on researching misophonia as someone who lives with it. Misophonia is an aversive response to everyday sounds (chewing, sniffling, pen clicking) and…
Patient-Made Knowledge Networks: Long COVID Discourse, Epistemic Injustice, and Online Community Formation
Tawfiq Ammari
Long COVID represents an unprecedented case of patient-led illness definition, emerging through Twitter in May 2020 when patients began collectively naming, documenting, and legiti…
Remote Triggers: Misophonia, Technology Non-Use, and Design for Inclusive Digital Spaces
Tawfiq Ammari, Samantha Gilgan
Misophonia, characterized by intense negative reactions to specific sounds or related visual cues, remains poorly recognized in clinical settings yet profoundly affects daily life.…
Spatiotemporal Change-Points in Development Discourse: Insights from Social Media in Low-Resource Contexts
Woojin Jung, Charles Chear, Andrew H. Kim +2
This study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution of development discourse in low-resource settings. Analyzing more than two years of geotagged X data from Zambia, we introduce…
From Retrieval to Synthesis: Repair Literacy and the Domestication of Generative AI
Tawfiq Ammari, Meilun Chen, S M Mehedi Zaman +1
How do students develop AI literacy through everyday practice rather than formal instruction? While normative AI literacy frameworks proliferate, empirical understanding of how stu…
Crisis Messaging Journeys: Epistemic Struggles over CDC Guidance During COVID-19
Tawfiq Ammari
This study investigates how the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) communicated COVID-19 guidance on Twitter and how publics responded over two years of the pand…
Beyond the Silence: How Men Navigate Infertility Through Digital Communities and Data Sharing
Tawfiq Ammari, Zarah Khondoker, Yihan Wang +1
Men experiencing infertility face unique challenges navigating Traditional Masculinity Ideologies that discourage emotional expression and help-seeking. This study examines how Red…
Governance and Technological Challenge in Digital Solidarity Economies: A Case Study of a Collaborative Transportation Platform in South Korea
Jeongone Seo, Tawfiq Ammari
South Korea's City P illustrates how lofty goals of digital solidarity can falter when challenged by local governance realities. Drawing on Hansmann's ownership theory, collaborati…
Intergenerational AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant Families: Interpretive Gatekeeping Meets Convenient Critical Deferment
Jeongone Seo, Ryan Womack, Tawfiq Ammari
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into family life, immigrant families must navigate unique intergenerational, linguistic, and cultural challenges. This stu…
Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter
Tawfiq Ammari, Anna Gutowska, Jacob Ziff +2
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolved, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used Twitter to disseminate safety guidance and updates, reaching millions of users. This stu…
Racism, Resistance, and Reddit: How Popular Culture Sparks Online Reckonings
Sherry Mason, Tawfiq Ammari
This study examines how Reddit users engaged with the racial narratives of Lovecraft Country and Watchmen, two television series that reimagine historical racial trauma. Drawing on…
How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
Tawfiq Ammari, Meilun Chen, S M Mehedi Zaman +1
We examine how undergraduate students integrate ChatGPT into everyday self-directed learning, analyzing 10,536 naturalistic messages donated by 36 students over a year. A sequentia…
Interdependent Navigation and Pragmatic Disengagement: How Older Korean Immigrants Selectively Engage with Digital Technologies
Jeongone Seo, Tawfiq Ammari
Older immigrant adults face unique barriers to digital participation, often framed as skill deficits. Through a community-based study with 22 older Korean immigrants in the greater…
Kintsugi-Inspired Design: Communicatively Reconstructing Identities Online After Trauma
Casey Randazzo, Tawfiq Ammari
Trauma can disrupt one's sense of self and mental well-being, leading survivors to reconstruct their identities in online communities. Drawing from 30 in-depth interviews, we prese…
"We're losing our neighborhoods. We're losing our community": A comparative analysis of community discourse in online and offline public spheres
Casey Randazzo, Minkyung Kim, Melanie Kwestel +2
Recovering from crises, such as hurricanes or wildfires, is a complex process that can take weeks, months, or even decades to overcome. Crises have both acute (immediate) and chron…
From the CDC to emerging infectious disease publics: The long-now of polarizing and complex health crises
Tawfiq Ammari, Anna Gutowska, Jacob Ziff +2
This study examines how public discourse around COVID-19 unfolded on Twitter through the lens of crisis communication and digital publics. Analyzing over 275,000 tweets involving t…
Finding Understanding and Support: Navigating Online Communities to Share and Connect at the intersection of Abuse and Foster Care Experiences
Tawfiq Ammari, Eunhye Ahn, Astha Lakhankar +1
Many children in foster care experience trauma that is rooted in unstable family relationships. Other members of the foster care system like foster parents and social workers face…
Online Knowledge Production in Polarized Political Memes: The Case of Critical Race Theory
Alyvia Walters, Tawfiq Ammari, Kiran Garimella +1
Visual culture has long been deployed by actors across the political spectrum as tools of political mobilization, and have recently incorporated new communication tools, such as me…