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Ben 
Zefeng Zhang

PUBLICATIONS

2023

“I’m Constantly in This Dilemma”: How Migrant Technology Professionals Perceive Social Media Recommendation Algorithms.

Cassidy Pyle*, Ben Zefeng Zhang*, Oliver L. Haimson and Nazanin Andalibi. 2023.  ACM’s Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing. (CSCW ‘23). *Joint first authors

2022

The Chinese Diaspora and The Attempted WeChat Ban: Platform Precarity, Anticipated Impacts, and Infrastructural Migration

Ben Zefeng Zhang, Oliver L. Haimson, and Michaelanne Thomas. 2022. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 397 (November 2022), 29 pages. [link] [PDF] [video]

Social Media's Role During Identity Changes Related to Major Life Events

Shanley Corvite, Ben Zefeng Zhang, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2022. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 328 (November 2022), 22 pages. [link] [PDF] [video]

Separate Online Networks During Life Transitions: Support, Identity, and Challenges in Social Media and Online Communities

Ben Zefeng Zhang*, Tianxiao Liu*, Shanley Corvite*, Nazanin Andalibi, and Oliver L. Haimson. 2022. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 458 (November 2022), 30 pages. [link] [PDF] [video] *Joint first authors

2021

The Online Authenticity Paradox: What Being "Authentic" on Social Media Means, and Barriers to Achieving It

Oliver L. Haimson, Tianxiao Liu, Ben Zefeng Zhang, and Shanley Corvite. 2021. \ Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 423 (October 2021), 18 pages. [link] [PDF] [video]

2020

Mapping the Narrative Ecosystem of Conspiracy Theories in Online Anti-vaccination Discussions

Joshua Introne, Ania Korsunska, Leni Krsova, and Ben Zefeng Zhang. 2020. Mapping the Narrative Ecosystem of Conspiracy Theories in Online Anti-vaccination Discussions. In International Conference on Social Media and Society (SMSociety'20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 184–192. [link] [PDF]

Workshop Papers (Lightly Peer-Reviewed)

Migrations in the U.S.

Ben Zefeng Zhang.  Development Consortium: HCI Across Borders. CHI 2022, New Orleans, LA.

Five Declarations on Borders for HCI: A Series of PositionStatements from the AnthroTech Lab

Sylvia Darling, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Shanley Corvite, Alexis Herrera, Hibby Thach, Suanmuanlian Tonsing, Michaelanne Thomas. Development Consortium: HCI Across Borders. CHI 2022, New Orleans, LA.

The Chinese Diaspora: Overlapping Life Transitions, Barriers, and HCI

Ben Zefeng Zhang, Michaelanne Thomas, Oliver L. Haimson. CHI workshop on Migration and Mobility in HCI: Rethinking Boundaries, Methods, and Impact, May 2021. CHI 2021, Yokohama, Japan. 

 

Gig Platform Migration as Destabilization: “Non-NormativePostcolonial Computing”

Ben Zefeng Zhang, Bryan Semaan. Workshop on Worker-Centered Design. CHI 2020, Honolulu, HI.

 

Gigging as Resilience: Managing Emergent Life Situations and Job Transitions

Ben Zefeng Zhang. Workshop on Life Transitions and Social Technologies: Research and Design for Times of Life Change. CSCW 2019, Austin, TX.

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