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#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?

Online Knowledge Production in Polarized Political Memes: The Case of Critical Race Theory 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 memes, GIFs, and emoji...

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

Finding Understanding and Support: Navigating Online Communities to Share and Connect at the intersection of Abuse and Foster Care Experiences 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 secondary trauma. Dr...

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