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The Online Identity Help Center: Designing and Developing a Content Moderation Policy Resource for Marginalized Social Media Users
(ACM, 2024-04-26)
Marginalized social media users struggle to navigate inequitable content moderation they experience online. We developed the Online Identity Help Center (OIHC) to confront this challenge by providing information on social ...
Critical Race Approaches to Understanding Health Inequities Impacting Trans People of Color in the United States
(2024)
This dissertation critically examines structural drivers of health inequities impacting trans people of color in the United States. To do so, I use theories that concern how the structural power dynamics that drive these ...
Heterogeneity in the Neural Mechanisms of Adversity: Implications for Developmental Risk and Resilience
(2024)
The wide heterogeneity in adverse outcomes of stressful experiences unexplained in existing literature suggests that more research is needed to understand the developmental risk and resilience to adversity. Specifically, ...
Improving Web Automation Tools through UI Context and Demonstration
(2024)
User interface (UI) automation allows people to perform UI tasks programmatically and can be helpful for computer or smartphone tasks that are tedious, repetitive, or inaccessible. UI automation works by programmatically ...
Perception of Economic Standing and Political Participation in Urban Neighborhoods
(2024)
This dissertation aims to address an unexplained aspect of the income-participation gap, particularly in instances where absolute income does not completely predict the resources needed for voting behavior, contrary to the ...
Blindness and Water Divination in the Saharan West
(2024)
This dissertation examines the nexus between blindness, water divination, and perception through ethnography. It listens into the world of Dali Gimba, a hinterland village in Mauritania that is inhabited by the Awlād Ummār—a ...
Rhetoric and Networked Religious Identity: Raised-Evangelical Social Media Users Writing Back in 2020
(2024)
This qualitative and ethnographic study examines the social media writing of American millennial raised-evangelicals who were active on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram in “long 2020.” All of these writers considered ...
Tempered Actions in the Face of Tempered Resistance: Practitioners' Role in Change in Support of Undocumented Students in California Community Colleges
(2024)
This study aimed to understand why and how community college practitioners act for institutional change in support of undocumented students—drawing on concepts from the tempered radicals framework. I used qualitative inquiry ...
Associations between high-risk business types for respiratory pathogen transmission and COVID cases in Wisconsin neighborhoods
(2024-05-10)
Introduction
Business types play a key role in neighborhood respiratory pathogen spread, including COVID-19, yet few studies have investigated what business types are high-risk and why. This study presents a novel measure ...
Examining the Relationship between Social Trust, Empathic Concern, the Principle of Care, and Low-cost and High-cost Prosocial Behaviors in Sociodemographic Contexts
(2024)
Humans have an enormous capacity to act prosocially, yet global trends indicate a decline in such behaviors. Considering the importance of prosocial behaviors for individuals and society, it is crucial to explore the various ...