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Overview

Jessica Vitak is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the social sciences and computer science, focusing particularly on the intersection of technology and society.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, their subfields of expertise encompass:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Communication
  • Education
  • Information Systems

The main research topics addressed by Jessica Vitak include:

  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Social Media and Politics
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Jessica Vitak's notable recent publications include:

  • "Privacy in Interaction: Exploring Disclosure and Social Capital in Facebook," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Calling All Facebook Friends: Exploring Requests for Help on Facebook," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Americans' willingness to adopt a COVID-19 tracking app," 2020, First Monday
  • "More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies," 2020, Social Media + Society
  • "Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication," 2021, Journal of Communication

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jessica Vitak include:

  • Michael Zimmer
  • Tamara Clegg
  • Marshini Chetty
  • Priya Kumar
  • Casey Fiesler

Their work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Social Media + Society
  • Big Data & Society
  • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

Best Publications

  • Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research

    Sandra K. Evans;Katy E. Pearce;Jessica Vitak;Jeffrey W. Treem

  • Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Their Role in Social Capital Processes

    Nicole B. Ellison;Jessica Vitak;Rebecca Gray;Cliff Lampe

  • It's Complicated: Facebook Users' Political Participation in the 2008 Election

    Jessica Vitak;Paul Zube;Andrew D. Smock;Caleb T. Carr

  • The Impact of Context Collapse and Privacy on Social Network Site Disclosures

    Jessica Vitak

  • Personal Internet use at work: Understanding cyberslacking

    Jessica Vitak;Julia Crouse;Robert LaRose

  • Student use of Facebook for organizing collaborative classroom activities

    Cliff Lampe;Donghee Yvette Wohn;Jessica Vitak;Nicole B. Ellison

  • Negotiating Privacy Concerns and Social Capital Needs in a Social Media Environment

    Nicole B. Ellison;Jessica Vitak;Charles Steinfield;Rebecca Gray

  • Norm evolution and violation on Facebook

    Caitlin Michelle McLaughlin;Jessica Vitak

  • ‘There’s a network out there you might as well tap’: Exploring the benefits of and barriers to exchanging informational and support-based resources on Facebook

    Jessica Vitak;Nicole B. Ellison

  • Social Network Site Affordances and Their Relationship to Social Capital Processes

    Nicole B. Ellison;Jessica Vitak

  • It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    Jessica Vitak

  • Examining social adjustment to college in the age of social media: Factors influencing successful transitions and persistence

    Rebecca Gray;Jessica Vitak;Emily W. Easton;Nicole B. Ellison

  • Organizational Media Affordances: Operationalization and Associations with Media Use

    Ronald E. Rice;Sandra K. Evans;Katy E. Pearce;Anu Sivunen

  • Beyond the Belmont Principles: Ethical Challenges, Practices, and Beliefs in the Online Data Research Community

    Jessica Vitak;Katie Shilton;Zahra Ashktorab

  • The Ties That Bond: Re-Examining the Relationship between Facebook Use and Bonding Social Capital

    Jessica Vitak;Nicole B. Ellison;Charles Steinfield

  • "You can't block people offline": examining how facebook's affordances shape the disclosure process

    Jessica Vitak;Jinyoung Kim

  • Online Social Network Sites and the Concept of Social Capital

    Charles Steinfield;Nicole B. Ellison;Cliff Lampe;Jessica Vitak

  • Perceptions of facebook's value as an information source

    Cliff Lampe;Jessica Vitak;Rebecca Gray;Nicole Ellison

  • Identifying Women's Experiences With and Strategies for Mitigating Negative Effects of Online Harassment

    Jessica Vitak;Kalyani Chadha;Linda Steiner;Zahra Ashktorab

  • Designing Cyberbullying Mitigation and Prevention Solutions through Participatory Design With Teenagers

    Zahra Ashktorab;Jessica Vitak

  • Privacy in Interaction: Exploring Disclosure and Social Capital in Facebook

    Frederic Stutzman;Jessica Vitak;Nicole B Ellison;Rebecca Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicole B. Ellison
Nicole B. Ellison University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cliff Lampe
Cliff Lampe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Charles Steinfield
Charles Steinfield Michigan State University
Robert LaRose
Robert LaRose Michigan State University
Jesse Fox
Jesse Fox The Ohio State University
Ronald E. Rice
Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara
Eszter Hargittai
Eszter Hargittai University of Zurich

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