activity
20232025
most citedWorking with Color: How Color Quantization Can Aid Researchers of Problematic Information

8 citations · 11 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

7 papers

cs.CY2025

Reflecting on Potentials for Post-Growth Social Media Platform Design

Joseph S. Schafer

Sudden attention on social media, and how users navigate these contextual shifts, has been a focus of much recent work in social media research. Even when this attention is not har…

cs.CY2024★ 8 cited

Working with Color: How Color Quantization Can Aid Researchers of Problematic Information

Nina Lutz, Jordyn W. Padzensky, Joseph S. Schafer

Analyzing large sets of visual media remains a challenging task, particularly in mixed-method studies dealing with problematic information and human subjects. Using AI tools in suc…

cs.CY2024

"We're not all construction workers": Algorithmic Compression of Latinidad on TikTok

Nina Lutz, Cecilia Aragon

The Latinx diaspora in the United States is a rapidly growing and complex demographic who face intersectional harms and marginalizations in sociotechnical systems and are currently…

cs.CY2023

Towards Incorporating Researcher Safety into Information Integrity Research Ethics

Joseph S. Schafer, Kate Starbird

Traditional research ethics has mainly and rightly been focused on making sure that participants are treated safely, justly, and ethically, to avoid the violation of their rights o…

cs.SI2023

Viral Privacy: Contextual Integrity as a Lens to Understand Content Creators' Privacy Perceptions and Needs After Sudden Attention

Joseph S. Schafer, Annie Denton, Chloe Seelhoff +2

When designing multi-stakeholder privacy systems, it is important to consider how different groups of social media users have different goals and requirements for privacy. Addition…

cs.HC2023

The Challenges of Studying Misinformation on Video-Sharing Platforms During Crises and Mass-Convergence Events

Sukrit Venkatagiri, Joseph S. Schafer, Stephen Prochaska

Mis- and disinformation can spread rapidly on video-sharing platforms (VSPs). Despite the growing use of VSPs, there has not been a proportional increase in our ability to understa…

cs.SI2023★ 3 cited

Followback Clusters, Satellite Audiences, and Bridge Nodes: Coengagement Networks for the 2020 US Election

Andrew Beers, Joseph S. Schafer, Ian Kennedy +3

The 2020 United States presidential election was, and has continued to be, the focus of pervasive and persistent mis- and disinformation spreading through our media ecosystems, inc…