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sohyeon hwang

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postdoc @ CITP princeton.
chronic online lurker :)
i study how people shape the governance of digital / platform technologies. you can find more about my research on my website. feel free to email or message me!

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Joined November 02, 2022

website:

https://www.sohyeonhwang.com/

google scholar pub list...?:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ryouEjYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @timnitGebru@dair-community.social

@timnitGebru thank you!! I subscribed to the newsletter, looking forward to updates and news 😊

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @timnitGebru@dair-community.social

@timnitGebru hello! I would love to attend this event but unfortunately won't be able to make the time - will there be other ways or opportunities to learn more about the work being shared in this session?

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Nov 07, 2025

RE: @bonfire@indieweb.social

😊😊😊

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Oct 18, 2025

I’ll be presenting this work at #CSCW in #Bergen on Tuesday! We will be part of the session “Core Concepts in Privacy Research” at 2:30PM in Bekken ☺️ @cscw@hci.social

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Oct 18, 2025

Replying to @julian@fietkau.social

thanks @julian!! I hadn’t realized this was also posted here already :) yan is at @ynotez

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Aug 12, 2025

I'm co-organizing #CSCW NE, an in-person regional gathering for people in Northeast America, alongside some folks from Stevens, Rutgers, and Princeton. If you want to come hang out (especially if you can't make it out to the full conference in Bergen this year), RSVP at https://cscw-ne.hci.social

Please boost and help share 😊🔁

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Jun 25, 2025

transcribing some interviews and calls i've had with folks about the fediverse, and the software that does the initial run for me has so far interpreted it as:
* feta verse
* petty verse
* better verse
* fighting verse
* fed averse

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Jun 05, 2025

if you're at #FediForum, @tolu@micro.blogs.princeton.edu and I are facilitating a session on the politics of protocols and designing with power in mind in about 5 minutes! we want to talk about our recent pre-print (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22962v1) but it's mostly free-form, open discussion related to the topic

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · May 15, 2025

Replying to @mayel@sunbeam.city

@mayel ooh thank you for the heads up :0 ill follow up with folks

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Apr 30, 2025

Replying to @mayel@sunbeam.city

@mayel thanks, that is very kind of you! yeah, it's honestly an eternal struggle 😩 and each university i work at has different stipulations to learn :')

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Apr 30, 2025

Replying to @mayel@sunbeam.city

@mayel yes, unfortunately - the university has specific rules about how we can offer compensation, but I'm looking into the possibility of other options (e.g., Amazon Incentives) and how that would work for folks not based in the US. I can keep you posted on if that works out!

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Apr 22, 2025

Replying to @s0hw@hci.social

the idea of governance frictions comes from a paper i worked on last year (my first fedi study!) with @priyakalot @ynotez - it was accepted to CSCW 2025 and we have the pre-print out on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02150

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Apr 22, 2025

Replying to @s0hw@hci.social

a few more details in case anyone is curious - the study is formally called "Surfacing and Addressing Governance Frictions on Decentralized Social Media" and is being run by a team of myself, phd students (@YuhanLiu @thaty @sophierollins), and faculty across Princeton (Prof. Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh ), Northwestern (Prof. Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw under IRB STU00223736), and Georgia Tech (Prof. Richmond Wong @richmondywong )!

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Apr 22, 2025

📢 research call 📢

please boost! we're running a series of small group design workshops for community governance on fedi. if you are a user, admin, mod, dev, organizer - or have thought quite a bit about governance on fedi - and a legal adult in your locale, join us!

each workshop, scheduled based on peoples' availability, is:
🌐 2 hrs on Zoom
👥 w/ 6-10 people
💲 comes w/ $60 USD per person

details: https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/
sign up: https://princetonsurvey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3SdG4y6wocMPie
questions: frictance@princeton.edu

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Jan 14, 2025

I'm organizing a panel at 4S 2025 with the wonderful @kaylea@social.coop on "social model collapse" in online spaces as human participation and interaction become replaced by AI modalities, disrupting fundamental social processes that sustain our digital ecosystem. If you have thoughts or ongoing work on this, we would love to have you! The call is lightweight, it only asks for a 250-word abstract due Jan 31: https://blog.communitydata.science/thinking-about-ai-harms-to-communities-submit-to-our-upcoming-4s-panel/

please boost + share 😊🔁

#mastodon #fediverseresearch #academicchatter

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Sep 23, 2024

I just boosted a toot about this but wanted to make my own lil blurb: I'm part of an event this Friday by @communitydata@social.coop where I'll be talking about the practical takeaways from the findings of the interview study I was doing late 2023/early 2024 on privacy, policies, and community governance on fedi. We'll have group discussions, and we'd love to chat + be in dialogue w/ folks on fedi! Please feel fre to register / boost 😊

More info + registration link here: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Dialogues/Complexities_of_Community_Governance

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · May 03, 2024

Replying to @bkeegan@hci.social

thanks @bkeegan 😀 i was gonna blog and toot about it this week but looks like you beat me to the punch :) trying to think up what would be the most useful blog post about this now! @healspersecond @aaronshaw

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Feb 08, 2024

With the opening of bsky the other day, it feels like a good time to re-plug our interview study on community governance + privacy on decentralized platforms. If you're a server owner, admin, or mod, we'd love to chat! No prep is needed, and folks can get a $20 gift card.

Happy to answer any questions here or via email. More info + sign up at: tinyurl.com/sohw-mapp

Boosts very appreciated!

(Northwestern IRB STU00219666, York ERB 3969, PIs: Aaron Shaw, Yan Shvartsnaider) @priyakalot@hci.social @ynotez@infosec.exchange

sohyeon hwang @s0hw@hci.social · Oct 27, 2023

We’re conducting a study about policies and privacy in online communities. If you’re on the Fediverse and a legal adult in your locale, we’d love to chat! No familiarity with policies is needed, and participants can receive a $20 gift card. More info + sign up link: https://tinyurl.com/sohw-mapp

Happy to answer questions here or via email (sohyeonhwang[at]u.northwestern.edu).

Boosts appreciated :)

(Northwestern IRB STU00219666, York ERB 3969, PIs: Aaron Shaw, Yan Shvartsnaider) @priyakalot@hci.social @ynotez@infosec.exchange

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