#Rutgers today covering our paper Analyzing online discussion topics can be real-time, citizen-centric predictors of local needs. This powerful tool could revolutionize international aid & development work. #Poverty #AI

www.rutgers.edu/news/discove...

Go read more from her papers here, you'll thank me later!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.17639
arxiv.org/abs/2503.07892

Some images from @caseyrandazzo.bsky.social's presentations today

Thank you Dr Randazzo! High praise!!!

Congrats @tawfiq.bsky.social on having 3 papers on one panel at CSCW today! Leading the way for HCI individual and community crisis research!

Happening now!

🧩 When life breaks us, how do we rebuild? My research group
@rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social
explores trauma, uncertainty, & crisis—examining how technology can heal/harm. We're prez 4 papers at #CSCW25 - Oct 10; 10 am/4 pm (ET) #TraumaInformedDesign #CrisisInformatics; tinyurl.com/46pwzw6n

Users cross-posting between foster care & abuse Reddit communities become "connector-leaders," helping trauma survivors rebuild identity through shared experiences w/
Joyce Lee and the CHWL Team: www.cfwlaboratory.com/team.html
🔗💙 #FosterCare; dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

🏘️ "We're losing our neighborhoods" w/
@caseyrandazzo.bsky.social
et al. 8 months post-Hurricane Ida: Online groups (organizing/informal) & town halls (formal/structured) discussed similar topics. Crisis effects extend far beyond emergency response. #CrisisInformatics; arxiv.org/abs/2503.07892

🌟How do #traumasurvivors rebuild identity online? w/
@caseyrandazzo.bsky.social
Study of 30 survivors: digital spaces can either widen fractures or, like Kintsugi gold, create beautiful integrated identities. 🔑 find: "Grief bubbles" trap users. #TraumaInformedDesign; arxiv.org/abs/2503.17639

📱 "If it has an exclamation point, I step away from it, I need facts, not excited feelings" with Karen Joy: karenjoyforyou.com

Study of 23 parents reveals #parents created "filter bubbles" with trusted sources but algorithms often increased anxiety, & at times burnout shorturl.at/FLB8d

🧩 When life breaks us, how do we rebuild? My research group
@rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social
explores trauma, uncertainty, & crisis—examining how technology can heal/harm. We're prez 4 papers at #CSCW25 - Oct 10; 10 am/4 pm (ET) #TraumaInformedDesign #CrisisInformatics; tinyurl.com/46pwzw6n

Happy that my Colleagues & I @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social
& Rutgers Social Work received the Honorable Mention Award for our #EAAMO paper :
Digital Pulse of Development: Constructing Poverty Metrics from Social Media Discourse
t.co/tZpz4nxGLG

I'm co-organizing #CSCW NE, an in-person regional gathering for people in Northeast America, alongside some folks from Stevens, Rutgers, and Princeton. If you want to come hang out (especially if you can't make it out to the full conference in Bergen this year), RSVP at cscw-ne.hci.social!

#CHI/#HCI #CSCW researchers...are there any guidelines to sharing data analysis of digital traces with community users? Any examples as to how to do so to help the community?

Study: Facebook memes about #CriticalRaceTheory memes...supporters & opponents use rhetoric diverging from academic definition of CRT. Memes central in political sensemaking...challenging "post-truth" politics arxiv.org/abs/2310.03171

#CSCW Study w Karen Joy at Rutgers School of Comm. & Info on how parents use social media to navigate uncertainties abt children's COVID symptoms, prognosis, vaccination. Updates Mishel’s Uncertainty in Illness Theory to include technological mediation + design recs:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05181

A Rutgers School of Communication & info
#CSCW study studied how foster care & abuse Reddit communities seek support. "Boundary-crossing" users contribute more & get higher engagement. Design recs to assist #trauma survivors in finding suitable online communities: arxiv.org/abs/2404.18301