Ammari

Discovering a New Way to Measure Poverty

#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

Finding Understanding and Support: Navigating Online Communities to Share and Connect at the intersection of Abuse and Foster Care Experiences | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 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...

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. We're losing our community": A comparative analysis of community discourse in online and offline public spheres Recovering from crises, such as hurricanes or wildfires, is a complex process that can take weeks, months, or even decades to overcome. Crises have both acute (immediate) and chronic (long-term) effec...

🏘️ "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": Technologically Mediated Parental COVID Uncertainty | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction As a novel virus, COVID introduced considerable uncertainty into the daily lives of people all over the globe since late 2019. Relying on twenty-three semi-structured interviews with parents whose chi...

📱 "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

A faded etching of the Hudson River from Hoboken is overlaid with the following text: CSCW Northeast 2025, in-person regional gathering. Friday, October 3, 2025, 10AM-4:30PM at University Center Complex, Stevens Institute of Technology. RSVP: cscw-ne.hci.social The logos of HCI at Stevens, Princeton HCI, and Rutgers University are on the right-hand side.

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?

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