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What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @axz, myself, @karger, and Mark Ackerman that will appear at #cscw2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05388
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Big congratulations to Helena Vasconcelos on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/
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Our argument is that design patterns largely cluster within cells of the Form-From design space. For example, threaded spaces commonly utilize upvotes, threaded networks often use resharing, and flat networks typically require posting on a "wall" rather than a central feed.
If you don't like our 2x3 space, there's also a full 62-dimension treatment in the appendix from our inductive process, as we
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What unifies, and what distinguishes, social media designs? Are all the Twitter spinoffs actually meaningfully different designs from each other? Form-From is a design space from @axz, myself, @karger, and Mark Ackerman that will appear at #cscw2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05…
Big congratulations to Helena Vasconcelos on winning a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/
Coming very soon: #cscw2024 panel on "Is Human-AI Interaction CSCW?" alongside @asb, @jbigham, @andresmh, and Merrie Morris!
https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2024/program/content/179232
A reviewer called @lindsay's work "a rare example of a 'full stack' CSCW paper. It is an unusual system paper that feels theoretically motivated and is evaluated experimentally against a meaningful control."
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This paper argues that online spaces become ghost towns because it's too easy to lurk without contributing, and that asking people to regularly re-commit—or the incoming messages start getting muted—reverses the trend. arxiv.org/abs/2410.2…
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Our argument is that design patterns largely cluster within cells of the Form-From design space. For example, threaded spaces commonly utilize upvotes, threaded networks often use resharing, and flat networks typically require posting on a…
Form-From asks two questions: (1) What is the principal shape, or form, of the content: either threaded or flat? (2)~From where or from whom one might receive content, ranging from spaces to networks to the commons?
So just what is this thing? It's been a long time since CSCW introduced Johansen's Time-Space matrix, and at this point a vast majority of social media would fall into the different time - different place quadrant, making it not very produ…
One of my favorite little investigations was coding all the systems listed in a Wikipedia social media timeline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_social_media) as of when they launched with Form-From. The pattern weaves back and f…
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