Archival Publications
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Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge
Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, and Michael Ann DeVito. 2025. Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714252…
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Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models
Morgan Scheuerman, Katy Weathington, Adrian Petterson, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Dipto Das, Michael Ann DeVito, and Jed R. Brubaker. 2025. Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. Just Accepted (June 2025). https://doi.org/10.1145/3743676…
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“A Blocklist is a Boundary”: Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks
Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, and Michael Ann DeVito. 2025. “A Blocklist is a Boundary”: Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 2, Article CSCW021 (May 2025), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3710919…
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Why Can’t Black Women Just Be?: Black Femme Content Creators Navigating Algorithmic Monoliths
Gianna Williams, Natalie Chen, Michael Ann DeVito, and Alexandra To. 2025. Why Can’t Black Women Just Be?: Black Femme Content Creators Navigating Algorithmic Monoliths. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 108, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713842…
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Whose Knowledge is Valued? Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications
Leah Hope Ajmani, Jasmine C. Foriest, Jordan Taylor, Kyle Pittman, Sarah Gilbert, and Michael Ann Devito. 2024. Whose Knowledge is Valued? Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 523 (November 2024), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687062…
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Safety and Community Context: Exploring a Transfeminist Approach to Sapphic Relationship Platforms
Michael Ann DeVito, Jessica L. Feuston, Erika Melder, Christen Malloy, Cade Ponder, and Jed R. Brubaker. 2024. Safety and Community Context: Exploring a Transfeminist Approach to Sapphic Relationship Platforms. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 8, CSCW1, Article 203 (April 2024), 35 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3653694…
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Content Moderation Folk Theories and Perceptions of Platform Spirit among Marginalized Social Media Users
Samuel Mayworm, Michael Ann DeVito, Daniel Delmonaco, Hibby Thach, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2024. Content Moderation Folk Theories and Perceptions of Platform Spirit among Marginalized Social Media Users. ACM Trans. Soc. Comput. 7, 1, Article 1 (March 2024), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632741…
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“I See Me Here”: Mental Health Content, Community, and Algorithmic Curation on TikTok
Ashlee Milton, Leah Ajmani, Michael Ann DeVito, and Stevie Chancellor. 2023. “I See Me Here”: Mental Health Content, Community, and Algorithmic Curation on TikTok. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.358148…
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How Transfeminine TikTok Creators Navigate the Algorithmic Trap of Visibility Via Folk Theorization
Michael Ann DeVito. 2022. How Transfeminine TikTok Creators Navigate the Algorithmic Trap of Visibility Via Folk Theorization. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 6, CSCW2, Article 380 (November 2022), 31 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3555105…
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“Do You Ladies Relate?”: Experiences of Gender Diverse People in Online Eating Disorder Spaces
Jessica L. Feuston, Michael Ann DeVito, Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Katy Weathington, Marianna Benitez, Bianca Z. Perez, Lucy Sondheim, and Jed R. Brubaker. 2022. “Do You Ladies Relate?”: Experiences of Gender Diverse People in Online Eating Disorder Communities. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 420 (November 2022), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555145…
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Adaptive Folk Theorization as a Path to Algorithmic Literacy on Changing Platforms
Michael Ann DeVito. 2021. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5, CSCW2, Article 339….
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Values (Mis)alignment: Exploring Tensions Between Platform and LGBTQ+ Community Design Values
Michael Ann DeVito, Ashley Marie Walker, and Julia R. Fernandez. 2021. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5, CSCW1, Article 88….
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“Facebook Promotes More Harassment”: Social Media Ecosystem, Skill and Marginalized Hijra Identity in Bangladesh
Fayika Farhat Nova, Michael Ann DeVito, Pratyasha Saha, Kazi Shohanur Rashid, Shashwata Roy Turzo, Sadia Afrin, and Shion Guha. 2021. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 5, CSCW1, Article 157….
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“‘More gay’ fits in better”: Intracommunity Power Dynamics and Harms in Online LGBTQ+ Spaces
Ashley Marie Walker and Michael Ann DeVito. 2020. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems….
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‘Too Gay for Facebook’: Presenting LGBTQ+ Identity Throughout the Personal Social Media Ecosystem
Michael Ann DeVito, Ashley Marie Walker, and Jeremy Birnholtz. 2018. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2, CSCW, Article 44….
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How People Form Folk Theories of Social Media Feeds and What it Means for How We Study Self-Presentation
Michael Ann DeVito, Jeremy Birnholtz, Jeffery T. Hancock, Megan French, and Sunny Liu. 2018. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems….
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“Algorithms ruin everything”: #RIPTwitter, Folk Theories, and Resistance to Algorithmic Change in Social Media
Michael Ann DeVito, Darren Gergle, and Jeremy Birnholtz. 2017. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 3163–3174….
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Platforms, People, and Perception: Using Affordances to Understand Self-Presentation on Social Media
Michael Ann DeVito, Jeremy Birnholtz, and Jeffery T. Hancock. 2017. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’17), 740–754….
Organizing and Agenda Setting Work
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“What is Safety?”: Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms
Ashley Marie Walker, Michael Ann DeVito, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Rosanna Bellini, Stevie Chancellor, Jessica L. Feuston, Kathryn Henne, Patrick Gage Kelley, Shalaleh Rismani, Renee Shelby, and Renwen Zhang. 2024. “What is Safety?”: Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW…
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Epistemic Injustice in Online Communities: Unpacking the Values of Knowledge Creation and Curation within CSCW Applications
Information flows are pervasive on the internet and often have a low entry barrier. From an epistemological perspective, information evolves into knowledge. For example, information about mental health on TikTok can act as actionable knowledge for someone seeking to improve their mental health. However, social computing has long known that people do not interact with…
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Queer in HCI: Strengthening the Community of LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research
Michael Ann DeVito, Caitlin Lustig, Ellen Simpson, Kimberley Allison, Tya Chuanromanee, Katta Spiel, Amy Ko, Jennifer Rode, Brianna Dym, Michael Muller, Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Ashley Marie Walker, Jed Brubaker, and Alex Ahmed. 2021. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 159….
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“This Seems to Work”: Designing Technological Systems with The Algorithmic Imaginations of Those Who Labor
Lindsey Cameron, Angele Christin, Michael Ann DeVito, Tawanna R. Dillahunt, Madeleine Elish, Mary Gray, Rida Qadri, Noopur Raval, Melissa Valentine, and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. 2021. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article 115. …
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Public Scholarship and CSCW: Trials and Twitterations
Sarah A. Gilbert, Casey Fiesler, Lindsay Blackwell, Michael Ann DeVito, Michaelanne Dye, Shamika Goddard, Kishonna L. Gray, David Nemer, and C. Estelle Smith. 2020. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’20 Companion), 447–456….
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Queer in HCI: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research Across Domains
Michael Ann DeVito, Ashley Marie Walker, Caitlin Lustig, Amy J. Ko, Katta Spiel, Alex A. Ahmed, Kimberley Allison, Morgan Scheuerman, Briana Dym, Jed R. Brubaker, Ellen Simpson, Naveen Bagalkot, Noopur Raval, Michael Muller, Jennifer Rode, and Mary L. Gray. 2020. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI…
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Transparency in Qualitative Research: Increasing Fairness in the CHI Review Process
Poorna Talkad Sukumar, Ignacio Avellino, Christian Remy, Michael Ann DeVito, Tawanna R. Dillahunt, Joanna McGrenere, and Max L. Wilson. 2020. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20), 1–6….
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Social Technologies for Digital Wellbeing Among Marginalized Communities
Michael Ann DeVito, Ashley Marie Walker, Jeremy Birnholtz, Kathryn Ringland, Kathryn Macapagal, Ashley Kraus, Sean Munson, Calvin Liang, and Herman Saksono. 2019. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing(CSCW ’19), 449–454….
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ARC: Moving the Method Forward
Ashley Marie Walker, Michael Ann DeVito, Juan Fernando Maestre, Katie A. Siek, Cassie Kresnye, Ben Jelen, Patrick C. Shih, Maria Wolters, and Mona Alqassim. 2019. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19), Paper SIG06….
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Queer(ing) HCI: Moving Forward in Theory and Practice
Katta Spiel, Os Keyes, Ashley Marie Walker, Michael Ann DeVito, Jeremy Birnholtz, Emeline Brulé, Ann Light, Pınar Barlas, Jean Hardy, Alex Ahmed, Jennifer A. Rode, Jed R. Brubaker, and Gopinaath Kannabiran. 2019. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19), Paper SIG11….
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The Algorithm and the User: How Can HCI Use Lay Understandings of Algorithmic Systems?
Michael Ann DeVito, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Megan French, Jeremy Birnholtz, Judd Antin, Karrie Karahalios, Stephanie Tong, and Irina Shklovski. 2018. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18), Paper panel04….