Joey Schafer

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Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell.

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I really feel like targeting @katmabu.bsky.social with criminal charges is going to backfire for the administration.

Trans Data: A Research and Design Agenda from Trans Activists' Transformative Data Science | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Trans activists play a deeply important role in caring for and advocating for the transgender community using data. Through an interview study with 16 trans activists working in trans-led and trans-se...

New work that I got to present at #CSCW2025 (that got an honorable mention + DEI recognition) with @drnikko.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social "Trans Data: A Research and Design Agenda from Trans Activists' Transformative Data Science" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

CIP researchers present 5 papers and workshop at 2025 CSCW conference in Norway At the CSCW conference in Bergen, Norway, CIP researchers facilitated a conference workshop and presented 5 papers, including one that received a Best Paper award.

Proud to be a part of this research center! www.cip.uw.edu/2025/10/27/u...

I love this blogpost and I’ve sent it to a number of fellow researchers, thank you for writing it

If you talk to local and state election officials right now about what they're afraid of heading into next year's midterms, most will tell you, "federal interference." They know it's coming, that it will take many forms, and that it's unconstitutional. But still, resisting it will be challenging.

Norwegian soda has so many options the US needs - top of the list include both Christmas soda and lemon-flavored Pepsi

Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

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Reminds me of the dumb little fights I would get into in my internet youth on creationist vs. everyone else forums.

"They change the textbooks EVERY YEAR!" yes, Steve, because they keep discovering new things. That's how science works. That's why your doctor doesn't bleed you anymore for the flu.

In other words, people who shared a video that “blew up” often adapted their content creation strategies to try to keep that attention coming. This is a core property of online “influence” dynamics, where the influencers adapt to what they think their audiences want.

On Monday, PhD student Joey Schafer presented a paper examining how bursts of sudden attention are experienced by TikTok users, and how that changes their behavior afterwards. A core idea here is how attention shapes a sense of “responsibility” & subsequent content creation. bsky.app/profile/scha...

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

I’ll be presenting this work at #CSCW2025 in Bergen on Tuesday at 2:30PM! We will be part of the session “Core Concepts in Privacy Research” (in the Bekken room) chaired by @emtseng.bsky.social ☺️

🔎 Do you work at a public university or collaborate w/ someone who does? Come learn what happens when your messages are requested through public records laws in my #CSCW2025 paper w/ Rachel, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, & @katestarbird.bsky.social
🕝 2:30pm today
📍Bekken, Core Concepts in Privacy Research

Thank you so much!! Your poster was fantastic!

If anyone at CSCW is doing or knows about work studying how athletes are dealing with online security/harassment issues or how sports (like the WNBA) become focal points for clickbait, AI slop, or political propaganda… come find me, I want to chat!

I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart

I’m in a session at the CSCW conference featuring 6 papers focused on online misinformation. It’s one of at least 3 sessions this conference focusing on misinfo or similar. The room is completely packed. I’m concerned about how few papers and sessions we will see in 3-5 years due to funding cuts.

This research used interviews and trace data analysis to understand how TikTok users experienced a sudden burst of attention and whether/how/why they changed their content creation and engagement practices afterwards. UW PhD student @schafer.bsky.social will present the paper at CSCW this afternoon.

'I Blow Up': Understanding TikTok Users' Reactions to Sudden Social Media Attention | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Social media platforms are known to facilitate sudden bursts of attention on individual pieces of content and their creators — dynamics often referred to as ''going viral''. However, questions remain ...

We found lots of interesting impacts, including that users post more audience-interacting (or “responsive”) content, that blowing up leads to feelings of obligation to audiences, that users were recognized in the real world akin to celebrities, and much more - check out the full paper! 4/4

We focused on a Summer 2022 trend where people used a song with the lyrics “I Blow Up” to highlight their own past experiences of sudden attention, to understand how made sense of this attention, & how these moments altered users’ online behaviors, audience relationships, and offline interactions 3/

We interviewed TikTok users and analyzed TikTok user timelines to understand what the impacts of sudden attention (“blowing up,” “spotlighting,” or “going viral” [though more on that term later]) are on the particular spotlighted creators who experience this attention. 2/

'I Blow Up': Understanding TikTok Users' Reactions to Sudden Social Media Attention | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Social media platforms are known to facilitate sudden bursts of attention on individual pieces of content and their creators — dynamics often referred to as ''going viral''. However, questions remain ...

Excited to be in Bergen for CSCW 2025! This (Monday) afternoon I’ll be presenting a study I led with a fantastic team of undergraduate and Masters students, supervised by @katestarbird.bsky.social, on sudden attention, influencers, and TikTok - more details in 🧵 1/

We turned our pain into a research paper… documenting how our collaborative research team (which included researchers at a public university) navigated a slew of public records requests (by some of the same folks who have since turned their attention towards attacking academia more broadly).

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

Vaccinate your children. My GOD.

Start building the Jorge Polanco statue NOW 🔱💙⚾️