I've had awesome REU summer interns come work with our lab
@socialfutureslab over the last several years, many of whom went on to publish papers based on their internship work! Such as: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3593013.3594114
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15527
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626252.3630795

Our DUB REU summer internship program for undergraduates is open again for applications! It's ~9 week paid, paired with a DUB faculty member and hosted at UW to work on HCI research, broadly construed.

Deadline 1/31.

Please share with your students! https://dub.uw.edu/reu.html

@cfiesler @andresmh I'm not attending CSCW this year unfortunately but I am requesting it for everyone who's going to be there :P

@andresmh @jonfroehlich wow I don’t think I know of any that top @andresmh’s example!

Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

Longer post(s) to come after the morning school rush, but!

The Fediverse governance research @darius and I have been working on this year—with the absolutely central participation of so many wonderful Mastodon and Hometown server teams—is out:

https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

The new DIS website for 2025 is online at https://dis.acm.org/2025/

watch this space for call announcements as they happen and we look forward to seeing you all in Funchal, Madeira on 5-9 July 2025.

#dis25

Bluesky now has DMs https://tcrn.ch/3WQJSF2

@ntnsndr @light I can't see the original message but yes, self-hosting is totally possible!

Also if interested in fully technically decentralized, there is a recent paper just out that removes the need for a governance server and does everything on clients using the MLS protocol: https://james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles/private-hierarchical-governance.pdf

@ntnsndr thanks!! More to be pushed in the coming days and weeks!

Leijie Wang giving a great talk (with a live demo!) of his no-code authoring system Pika, including grammar, compiler, component library, and form-based UI, for communities to create and carry out a wide range of governance online! #chi2024 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642012

@andresmh @LiTweeture David came up with it :)

Congrats to Nouran Soliman on a fantastic talk on her best paper awarded work on meronimity (mitigating barriers to engaging in public conversations with partial, self-selected, and verified identity signals)! 👏👏 We also deployed a system for it right here in Mastodon at @LiTweeture a while back 😌 Read the paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642241 #chi2024

And Emelia Hughes giving her awesome talk! Good questions about novelty effects and possibility of reduced impact of citations or correction interventions over time in relation to systems like Community Notes #chi2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17218

@kjfeng and Lawrence gave a great talk at #chi2024! Also some really interesting questions from the audience the work brought up - questions of ease and simplicity vs agency tradeoffs, dealing with as-of-yet unknown or revealed preferences, implications for content moderation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14000

I made something else to help me choose rooms and sessions at @acm_chi #chi2024.

Enter your topic of interest, then select the day, and see the sessions and rooms with the most presentation for that topic

👉🏼 https://johnguerra.co/viz/chi2024Papers/ 👈🏼

OK, you want to decide what's in your social media feed--but how do you do that?

New paper by @kjfeng @axz @xander David McDonald and me!

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1crs81h/social_media_sites_choose_what_users_see_but_many/

When does an image become AI-generated?

There's been a lot of discourse around the ethics of AI art. I think some amount of these arguments also apply to smartphone photographs. To dig into this idea, I close read a series of diagrams from a computational bokeh effect patent.
https://samgoree.github.io/2024/02/25/bokeh.html

Read the full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11678

Blog post: https://www.artt.cs.washington.edu/post/exploring-the-concept-of-misinformation-as-a-harm

Get just the worksheet here: https://www.artt.cs.washington.edu/docs/online-misinformation-harm-questionnaire

Work is led by Connie Moon Sehat, in collab w/ @socialfutureslab student Ryan Li and researcher Peipei Nie, and Tarunima Prabhakar of Tattle https://tattle.co.in/

We also discuss avenues for leveraging this framework towards other areas where harms-informed triage is useful (e.g., content moderation), and the possibility for automated tools to help w/ ranking items according to the dimensions or gathering supporting evidence. More coming!