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Overview

Jeremy Birnholtz is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work centers on key topics including Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology; LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy; Gender, Feminism, and Media; Privacy, Security, and Data Protection; HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions; Media Influence and Health; and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Layers of Marginality: An Exploration of Visibility, Impressions, and Cultural Context on Geospatial Apps for Men Who Have Sex With Men in Mumbai, India" (2020, Social Media + Society)
  • ""I don't want to be known for that:"The role of temporality in online self-presentation of young gay and bisexual males" (2021, Computers in Human Behavior)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Kathryn Macapagal
  • David Moskowitz
  • Ashley Kraus
  • Annika Pinch
  • Shruta Rawat

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as Social Media + Society, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Computers in Human Behavior, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy.

These publications indicate a sustained contribution to interdisciplinary studies involving social and behavioral dimensions of sexuality, privacy, digital technology use, and identity, with particular attention to minority populations.

Best Publications

  • Seeing and being seen: Co-situation and impression formation using Grindr, a location-aware gay dating app

    Courtney K. Blackwell;Jeremy P. Birnholtz;Charles Abbott

  • Data at work: supporting sharing in science and engineering

    Jeremy P. Birnholtz;Matthew J. Bietz

  • "Algorithms ruin everything": #RIPTwitter, Folk Theories, and Resistance to Algorithmic Change in Social Media

    Michael A. DeVito;Darren Gergle;Jeremy Birnholtz

  • How People Form Folk Theories of Social Media Feeds and What it Means for How We Study Self-Presentation

    Michael A. DeVito;Jeremy Birnholtz;Jeffery T. Hancock;Megan French

  • Platforms, People, and Perception: Using Affordances to Understand Self-Presentation on Social Media

    Michael A. DeVito;Jeremy Birnholtz;Jeffery T. Hancock

  • What does it mean to be an author? The intersection of credit, contribution, and collaboration in science

    Jeremy P. Birnholtz

  • 'Too Gay for Facebook': Presenting LGBTQ+ Identity Throughout the Personal Social Media Ecosystem

    Michael A. DeVito;Ashley Marie Walker;Jeremy Birnholtz

  • Identity, identification and identifiability: the language of self-presentation on a location-based mobile dating app

    Jeremy Birnholtz;Colin Fitzpatrick;Mark Handel;Jed R. Brubaker

  • The effects of cash, electronic, and paper gift certificates as respondent incentives for a web-based survey of technologically sophisticated respondents

    Jeremy P. Birnholtz;Daniel B. Horn;Thomas A. Finholt;Sung Joo Bae

  • Awkward encounters of an "other" kind: collective self-presentation and face threat on facebook

    Eden Litt;Erin Spottswood;Jeremy Birnholtz;Jeff T. Hancock

  • Butler lies: awareness, deception and design

    Jeff Hancock;Jeremy Birnholtz;Natalya Bazarova;Jamie Guillory

  • Six degrees of jonathan grudin: a social network analysis of the evolution and impact of CSCW research

    Daniel B. Horn;Thomas A. Finholt;Jeremy P. Birnholtz;Dheeraj Motwani

  • Visualizing real-time language-based feedback on teamwork behavior in computer-mediated groups

    Gilly Leshed;Diego Perez;Jeffrey T. Hancock;Dan Cosley

  • Adopt, adapt, abandon: Understanding why some young adults start, and then stop, using instant messaging

    Jeremy Birnholtz

  • When do researchers collaborate? Toward a model of collaboration propensity

    Jeremy P. Birnholtz

  • Tracking changes in collaborative writing: edits, visibility and group maintenance

    Jeremy Birnholtz;Steven Ibara

  • An exploratory study of input configuration and group process in a negotiation task using a large display

    Jeremy P. Birnholtz;Tovi Grossman;Clarissa Mak;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • "Is it Weird to Still Be a Virgin": Anonymous, Locally Targeted Questions on Facebook Confession Boards

    Jeremy Birnholtz;Nicholas Aaron Ross Merola;Arindam Paul

  • Independence and interaction: understanding seniors' privacy and awareness needs for aging in place

    Jeremy Birnholtz;McKenzie Jones-Rounds

  • Grounding needs: achieving common ground via lightweight chat in large, distributed, ad-hoc groups

    Jeremy P. Birnholtz;Thomas A. Finholt;Daniel B. Horn;Sung Joo Bae

  • Privacy in the open: how attention mediates awareness and privacy in open-plan offices

    Jeremy P. Birnholtz;Carl Gutwin;Kirstie Hawkey

  • "I Don't Want Them to Not Know": Investigating Decisions to Disclose Transgender Identity on Dating Platforms

    Julia R. Fernandez;Jeremy Birnholtz

  • Everyday deception or a few prolific liars? The prevalence of lies in text messaging

    Madeline E. Smith;Jeffrey T. Hancock;Lindsay Reynolds;Jeremy Birnholtz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University
Ronald M. Baecker
Ronald M. Baecker University of Toronto
Ravin Balakrishnan
Ravin Balakrishnan University of Toronto
Carl Gutwin
Carl Gutwin University of Saskatchewan
Susan R. Fussell
Susan R. Fussell Cornell University
Darren Gergle
Darren Gergle Northwestern University
Michael X Cohen
Michael X Cohen Radboud University
Ian Foster
Ian Foster University of Chicago
Edward Cutrell
Edward Cutrell Microsoft (United States)
Nicole B. Ellison
Nicole B. Ellison University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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