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most citedOnline Knowledge Production in Polarized Political Memes: The Case of Critical Race Theory

2 citations · 4 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.HC2026★ 1 cited

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…

cs.HC2026

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.…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.CY2025

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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.SI2025

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…

cs.CY2025

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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.SI2025

"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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.HC2024

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…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

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…