Community governance for recommender systems

I am broadly interested in the deployment of recommender systems for open-sourced and community-governed social media spaces, as well as the design of governance infrastructure that enables users in these spaces to have agency over the recommendations they receive.

Content moderation

I am interested in understanding how online communities build resilience and provide resource sharing through community governance procedures, especially in the context of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine beginning in February 2022.

Human-quantum computer interactions (HQCI)

I am interested in making sense of how our interactions with quantum computers will differentiate from the interactions we’ve had with classical computers, as well as identifying the position of where quantum algorithms could be applied in social science contexts.

Casey Fiesler, Joshua Paup, and Corian Zacher. 2023. Chilling Tales: Understanding the Impact of Copyright Takedowns on Transformative Content Creators. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 304 (October 2023), 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610095

Julie Jarzemsky, Joshua Paup, and Casey Fiesler. 2023. “This Applies to the Real World”: Student Perspectives on Integrating Ethics into a Computer Science Assignment. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 374–380. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569846

Casey Fiesler, Samantha Dalal, and Joshua Paup. 2023. Passwords and Python: Introducing Security Concepts in Lower-Division Programming. In EngageCSEdu. 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631988