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3221
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to collaborative computing and foundational work in Internet research ethics.
  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Amy Bruckman is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Science Applications.

The following main topics characterize their work:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing

Amy Bruckman has published in multiple venues, notably:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Recent papers include:

  • "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter," 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Quarantined! Examining the Effects of a Community-Wide Moderation Intervention on Reddit," 2022, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • "Will AI Console Me when I Lose my Pet? Understanding Perceptions of AI-Mediated Email Writing," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Toward a Grassroots Culture of Technology Practice," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Exploring the Role of Grammar and Word Choice in Bias Toward African American English (AAE) in Hate Speech Classification," 2022, 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Diyi Yang
  • Xander Koo
  • Shagun Jhaver
  • Christian Boylston
  • Eshwar Chandrasekharan

Amy Bruckman has also contributed to book publications, including a title with Cambridge University Press:

  • "Should You Believe Wikipedia?", 2022

Awards received are:

  • ACM Fellow, 2018, for contributions to collaborative computing and foundational work in Internet research ethics
  • ACM Senior Member, 2009

Best Publications

  • Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet.

    Robert Kraut;Judith Olson;Mahzarin Banaji;Amy Bruckman

  • Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia

    Susan L. Bryant;Andrea Forte;Amy Bruckman

  • Gender swapping on the Internet

    Amy Bruckman

  • Studying the amateur artist: A perspective on disguising data collected inhuman subjects research on the Internet

    Amy Bruckman

  • Community Support for Constructionist Learning

    Amy Bruckman

  • Moose crossing: construction, community, and learning in a networked virtual world for kids

    Amy Susan Bruckman;Mitchel Resnick

  • The MediaMOO Project Constructionism and Professional Community

    Amy Bruckman;Mitchel Resnick

  • “Go Away”: Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research

    James M. Hudson;Amy S. Bruckman

  • Pianos not stereos: creating computational construction kits

    Mitchel Resnick;Amy Bruckman;Fred Martin

  • From Wikipedia to the classroom: exploring online publication and learning

    Andrea Forte;Amy Bruckman

  • The Internet's Hidden Rules: An Empirical Study of Reddit Norm Violations at Micro, Meso, and Macro Scales

    Eshwar Chandrasekharan;Mattia Samory;Shagun Jhaver;Hunter Charvat

  • Hollaback!: the role of storytelling online in a social movement organization

    Jill P. Dimond;Michaelanne Dye;Daphne Larose;Amy S. Bruckman

  • Human-Machine Collaboration for Content Regulation: The Case of Reddit Automoderator

    Shagun Jhaver;Iris Birman;Eric Gilbert;Amy Bruckman

  • Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists

    Shagun Jhaver;Sucheta Ghoshal;Amy Bruckman;Eric Gilbert

  • Domestic violence and information communication technologies

    Jill P. Dimond;Casey Fiesler;Amy S. Bruckman

  • HCI FOR KIDS

    Amy Bruckman;Alisa Bandlow;Andrea Forte

  • Human-computer interaction for kids

    Amy Bruckman;Alisa Bandlow

  • Social and technical challenges in parenting teens' social media use

    Sarita Yardi;Amy Bruckman

  • Scaling Consensus: Increasing Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance

    A. Forte;A. Bruckman

  • Does Transparency in Moderation Really Matter?: User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit

    Shagun Jhaver;Amy Bruckman;Eric Gilbert

  • Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work

    Amy Bruckman;Scott Counts;Cliff Lampe;Loren Terveen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Gilbert
Eric Gilbert University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cliff Lampe
Cliff Lampe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark Guzdial
Mark Guzdial University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen University of Minnesota
Allison Druin
Allison Druin University of Maryland, College Park
Robert E. Kraut
Robert E. Kraut Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Muller
Michael Muller IBM (United States)
Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman University of Toronto
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University

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