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Leysia Palen is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences and Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Health.

The main topics of their work include Public Relations and Crisis Communication, Disaster Management and Resilience, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection.

Recent publications by Leysia Palen include:

  • "The Social Convergence of Information Disorder: Discovery and Analysis of the "Fertile Ground" of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy" (2024) - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  • "Natural Language Processing to the Rescue? Extracting 'Situational Awareness' Tweets During Mass Emergency" (2021) - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Achieving Accuracy through Ambiguity: the Interactivity of Risk Communication in Severe Weather Events" (2020) - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  • "The Polyvocality of Online COVID-19 Vaccine Narratives that Invoke Medical Racism" (2022) - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • ""Can't think of anything more to do": Public displays of power, privilege, and surrender in social media disaster monologues" (2021) - Human-Computer Interaction

Leysia Palen frequently collaborates with coauthors including:

  • Melissa Bica
  • Joy Weinberg
  • Lindsay Levkoff Diamond
  • Hande Batan
  • Sudha Verma

Their work is published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Best Publications

  • Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness

    Sarah Vieweg;Amanda L. Hughes;Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world

    Leysia Palen;Paul Dourish

  • Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events

    Amanda Lee Hughes;Leysia Palen

  • Instant messaging in teen life

    Rebecca E. Grinter;Leysia Palen

  • "Voluntweeters": self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • Citizen communications in crisis: anticipating a future of ICT-supported public participation

    Leysia Palen;Sophia B. Liu

  • Chatter on the red: what hazards threat reveals about the social life of microblogged information

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen;Amanda L. Hughes;Sarah Vieweg

  • Crisis in a Networked World

    Leysia Palen;Sarah Vieweg;Sophia B. Liu;Amanda Lee Hughes

  • Finding community through information and communication technology in disaster response

    Irina Shklovski;Leysia Palen;Jeannette Sutton

  • Going wireless: behavior & practice of new mobile phone users

    Leysia Palen;Marilyn Salzman;Ed Youngs

  • (How) will the revolution be retweeted?: information diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian uprising

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • Natural Language Processing to the Rescue? Extracting "Situational Awareness" Tweets During Mass Emergency.

    Sudha Verma;Sarah Vieweg;William J. Corvey;Leysia Palen

  • A vision for technology-mediated support for public participation & assistance in mass emergencies & disasters

    Leysia Palen;Kenneth M. Anderson;Gloria Mark;James Martin

  • Pass It On?: Retweeting in Mass Emergency

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • Voice-mail diary studies for naturalistic data capture under mobile conditions

    Leysia Palen;Marilyn Salzman

  • In search of the bigger picture: The emergent role of on-line photo sharing in times of disaster

    Sophia B. Liu;Leysia Palen;Jeannette Sutton;Amanda L. Hughes

  • Collective Intelligence in Disaster: Examination of the Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting

    Sarah Vieweg;Leysia Palen;Sophia B. Liu;Amanda L. Hughes

  • Social, individual and technological issues for groupware calendar systems

    Leysia Palen

  • Online forums supporting grassroots participation in emergency preparedness and response

    Leysia Palen;Starr Roxanne Hiltz;Sophia B. Liu

  • Online public communications by police & fire services during the 2012 Hurricane Sandy

    Amanda L. Hughes;Lise A. A. St. Denis;Leysia Palen;Kenneth M. Anderson

  • The Evolving Role of the Public Information Officer: An Examination of Social Media in Emergency Management

    Amanda L. Hughes;Leysia Palen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kate Starbird
Kate Starbird University of Washington
Martha Palmer
Martha Palmer University of Colorado Boulder
Richard Harper
Richard Harper Social Shaping Research
James H. Martin
James H. Martin University of Colorado Boulder
Douglas Sicker
Douglas Sicker Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Grudin
Jonathan Grudin University of Washington
Rebecca E. Grinter
Rebecca E. Grinter Georgia Institute of Technology
Dirk Grunwald
Dirk Grunwald University of Colorado Boulder
Mark S. Ackerman
Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gloria Mark
Gloria Mark University of California, Irvine

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