Post-Doctoral Papers and Honors

Yaxing Yao (with co-authors Huichuan Xia and Assistant Professors Yun Huang and Yang Wang) had his paper, “Free to Fly in Public Spaces: Drone Controllers’ Privacy Perceptions and Practices,” published in the May 2017 edition of the proceedings of the ACM 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Yao also had his works, “Privacy Mechanisms for Drones: Perceptions of Drone Controllers and Bystanders in the U.S.” (with Yun Huang and Yang Wang) appear in the proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI2017). His paper, “Folk Models of Online Behavioral Advertising,” (with David Lo Re and Yang Wang) appeared in the proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017).

Post-Doctoral Researchers: Honors, Presentations and Papers

Patricia Rossini, research associate, presented her paper, “Public Comments and Uncivil Discourse in the 2016 U.S. President Election” (written with Sam Jackson, Feifei Zhang, Bryan Semaan, Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Kate Kenski) at the 18th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers in October in Estonia.

Rossini also presented a paper she authored (with Jackson, Zhang, Stromer-Galley, Lauren Brant and Kate Kenski) at the International Communication Association annual conference in San Diego in May. It was titled, “Disrupting Controlled Interctivity? An Analysis of Public Comments on Facebook in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign.” Yatish Hegde, research analyst, had a paper he co-authored, “CORA: A Platform to Support Citation Context Analysis” (written with faculty member Bei Yu and doctoral student Yingya Li) named winner of the “Most Interesting Preliminary Results Paper award for the iSchools Organization’s iConference 2017.

Patricia Rossini

Yatish Hegde

Feifei Zhang (with Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Jeff Hemsley, Jerry Lamont Robinson, Bryan Semaan, Lauren Bryant, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Olga Boichak, and Yatish Hegde) presented “Strategic Temporality On Social Media During the General Election of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign” at the 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society in Toronto.

Zhang also had her paper, “Understanding Discourse Acts: Political Campaign Messages Classification on Facebook and Twitter,” published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Co-authors are Jennifer StromerGalley, Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Yatish Hedgde, Nancy McCracken and Jeff Hemsley.