The Sociotechnical Equity and Agency Lab conducts research focused on the intersection of technology, society, and equity. This page provides a sample of our ongoing and past research projects, exploring how technology impacts communities and individual agency.
Community Atomization on Semi-Private Online Platforms
We define a semi-private online platform as a platform where users adopt a persistent identity to connect with other users in multiple disconnected spaces…
Expert Viewpoints on Tech Safety, Literacy, and Responsibility
Questions of online safety, regardless of the definition of “online safety” in play, often turn to questions of responsibility…
Folk Risk Models and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks
The Fediverse is a collection of servers (known as instances) that can all communicate with one another across a common protocol…
Harnessing Trans Knowledge via Secure Citizen Science
Many of our own experiences as trans people, as well as research shared at the Trans Studies Conference, highlighting two critical facts: the lack of formal, comprehensive evidence surrounding trans health and trading information in built spaces…
Identity & Embeddedness on Broadcast Social Media Platforms
Generally speaking, we are interested in how users become socialized into an identity via embeddedness in a community on a broadcast social media platform…
Transfeminine Resistance on Semiprivate Internet Communities
Marginalized people commonly rely on social media as a critical tool for connecting with one another…