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@kristenengel

Social computing PhD candidate @ UW. I study user engagement with interventions, prosocial behavior, and antisocial content across online platforms. www.kristenengel.com

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The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale Abstract. In this article, we study how AI-paraphrased messages have the potential to amplify the persuasive impact and scale of information campaigns. Bui

Excited to announce that my paper "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale" with my wonderful collaborators @yiweixu.bsky.social, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social, and @emmaspiro.bsky.social has been published at PNAS Nexus!

Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

24.07.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4

Excellent talk by Hayoung in the Political Information and Opinion Dynamics panel at #ICWSM

24.06.2025 12:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Social Dynamics and Mobilization Potential of Online Election Narratives | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

In an increasingly fragmented social media landscape, we ask: how do election narratives on alt-tech platforms take shape, influence conceptions of power, and inspire collective action?
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

24.06.2025 10:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Social Dynamics and Mobilization Potential of Online Election Narratives authored by Kristen Engel, Tanushree Mitra, and Emma S. Spiro of the University of Washington

Screenshot of an ICWSM paper title and Header Social Dynamics and Mobilization Potential of Online Election Narratives authored by Kristen Engel, Tanushree Mitra, and Emma S. Spiro of the University of Washington

Hello from Copenhagen! Yesterday, I presented our visual rumoring workshop paper, and today I'll be presenting the following work in the #ICWSM Online Polarization session.
Excited to meet everyone and hear about your work this week!

24.06.2025 10:37 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for creating this resource! I am here in Copenhagen and on Bluesky.

22.06.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, Marianne. Your students will be so lucky to have you as a mentor. :) The postdoc sounds incredible, I can't wait to see where your research takes you next!

13.06.2025 04:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve just discovered pottery-sky (all the pottery and ceramic posts in custom feeds) and 😍 πŸ₯°

24.02.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two pieces of pottery. On the left, a bowl with a milky blue glaze inside and a deeper teal outside. On the right, a berry carton made of speckled buff clay with a minty-white glaze all over.

Two pieces of pottery. On the left, a bowl with a milky blue glaze inside and a deeper teal outside. On the right, a berry carton made of speckled buff clay with a minty-white glaze all over.

Experimenting with mixing some new glazes at the pottery studio.

This week’s non-research output:

24.02.2025 00:32 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, Dr. Dahlke!!

12.12.2024 01:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So excited that you have the opportunity to explore this domain. Congratulations! I hope we haven’t seen the last of you in r/CompSocial. πŸ™ƒ

26.11.2024 22:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi! Just sent you a message on Discord through the account connected to our mutual server.

18.11.2024 19:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Boosting this now that @shrutiphadke.bsky.social is on bluesky! Shruti is a computational social scientist with award winning research measuring and mitigating issues in online communities of problematic information, such as hate speech and conspiracy theories. She also worked at TikTok Research.

18.11.2024 19:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for putting together this resource! I'd love to be added. :)

17.11.2024 19:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Outside of academia, you can find me at my community garden patch, the pottery wheel, or trying to document the Pacific Northwest with my Hasselblad 500cm film camera.

17.11.2024 19:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My past projects focus on the mobilization potential of rumor narratives, cross-platform sharing of visual media in a rumoring campaign, online drivers of extreme belief engagement & disengagement, & the impact of a platform intervention on conspiracy theory communities.

17.11.2024 19:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello! I am a social computing PhD candidate @ UW. My current work examines pro-social interventions supporting users exiting extreme beliefs. If you are interested in characterizing & countering threats that compromise the safety & health of the info ecosystem & online communities, let’s connect!

17.11.2024 18:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd love to be added! Thanks for putting together this resource!

15.11.2024 03:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci

I wrote a bit on research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising

Deadline: December 15th www.cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospec...

Please boost!

14.11.2024 16:35 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Emily was an incredible mentor and a teammate on my first paper, building my confidence and skills while empowering me to apply them. Since leaving Cornell, I continue to learn from her through our work with the Clinic to End Tech Abuse and her critical tech-enabled harm research. Join her lab!

12.11.2024 04:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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HCI, News & Democracy Lunch @ CSCW 2024! Hello! Following up from our WILDLY successful events at CSCW 2023 and CHI 2024, we're back to bring together researchers and designers working at the intersection of Social Computing, HCI, News & De...

as is now tradition @sachnishal.bsky.social and I are organizing a small meetup for researchers & practitioners working on HCI, news & democracy at #CSCW2024!
join us for an informal lunch on 12 November (Tue) in-person at CSCW. rsvp:
forms.gle/fQWhvJgvAQtp...

10.11.2024 01:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Join us at CHI2024!

08.01.2024 15:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A very blissed out dog smiling and squinting

A very blissed out dog smiling and squinting

Me… scrolling my bluesky feed

04.05.2023 19:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0