6 papers
Bonsai: Intentional and Personalized Social Media Feeds
Omar El Malki, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Andrés Monroy-Hernández +1
Social media feeds use predictive models to maximize engagement, often misaligning how people consume content with how they wish to. We introduce Bonsai, a system that enables peop…
Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media
Sohyeon Hwang, Sophie Rollins, Thatiany Andrade Nunes +4
Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Ye…
Empowering Children to Create AI-Enabled Augmented Reality Experiences
Lei Zhang, Shuyao Zhou, Amna Liaqat +5
Despite their potential to enhance children's learning experiences, AI-enabled AR technologies are predominantly used in ways that position children as consumers rather than creato…
Understanding Community-Level Blocklists in Decentralized Social Media
Owen Xingjian Zhang, Sohyeon Hwang, Yuhan Liu +2
Community-level blocklists are key to content moderation practices in decentralized social media. These blocklists enable moderators to prevent other communities, such as those act…
Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols
Tolulope Oshinowo, Sohyeon Hwang, Amy X. Zhang +1
Calls to decentralize feed-based social media have been driven by concerns about the concentrated power of centralized platforms and their societal impact. In response, numerous de…
FareShare: A Tool for Labor Organizers to Estimate Lost Wages and Contest Arbitrary AI and Algorithmic Deactivations
Varun Nagaraj Rao, Samantha Dalal, Andrew Schwartz +3
What happens when a rideshare driver is suddenly locked out of the platform connecting them to riders, wages, and daily work? Deactivation-the abrupt removal of gig workers' platfo…