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Afsaneh Razi

@afsanehrazi.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Drexel

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Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 05/08/2025
New paper time! 📄🎉 With @afsanehrazi.bsky.social, Aleksandra Sarcevic, @drchole.bsky.social, @robin-burke.bsky.social, and Katherine Wright, we write about how #RecSys for social good needs participatory design & evaluation. Coming soon to arXiv & ACM TORS. md.ekstrandom.net/pubs/tors-co...
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TORS paper on the need for participatory approaches to designing and evaluating recommender systems and other information access systems.
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Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🧒 Youth Online Safety in News w/@afsanehrazi.bsky.social,@elhamagk.bsky.social , @md.ekstrandom.net , and Matt Namvarpour, 📰 3.9K+ articles (2002–2024) 📈 Focus shifted to tech platforms & bullying 💬 Sentiment more negative over time 📌 Trends linked to policy & events 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Ethos Research Lab @ethosresearchlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The ETHOS Research Lab had a strong presence at today’s DEGS conference at Drexel University. Our doctoral students presented their research on chatbots and teen online safety, tech for epilepsy self-management, and generative AI-risks for youths. #DEGS2025 #ETHOSLab #Drexel
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Ethos Research Lab @ethosresearchlab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We are excited to share that our paper "Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms" was presented at ACM CHI 2025. Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1145/3706...
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Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Ethos Research Lab @ethosresearchlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Chatbots Shouldn’t Harass You We reviewed 35,000+ user reviews of the Replika chatbot and found over 800 cases of harassment — including sexual advances, unwanted photo requests, and emotional manipulation.
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Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
new paper is up! we look at drug-related hashtags on tiktok to see how they are used and their content. what we find? no, #tiktok users are NOT using the platform to promote harmful behavior but rather to provide support for those in #recovery, advocate for #harmreduction arxiv.org/abs/2501.16123
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From #Dr00gtiktok to #harmreduction: Exploring Substance Use Hashtags on TikTok
The rise of TikTok as a primary source of information for youth, combined with its unique short-form video format, creates urgent questions about how substance use content manifests and spreads on the...
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DONUTS CCI @donutcci.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Howdy 👋 We are the Data, Ontology, Networks, Usability, Textuality, and Safety (DONUTS) Collaboratory @ Drexel College of Computing and Informatics led by @afsanehrazi.bsky.social @rezapour.bsky.social John Seberger! Here is where you can find us: 🌐: donutscolab.com 🐦: twitter.com/DONUTSColab
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Data Ontology Networks Users Textuality Safety
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Afsaneh Razi @afsanehrazi.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
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Teens on social media need both protection and privacy – AI could help get the balance right
Social media companies have come under intense pressure to do more to protect teens, but there’s another concern – they could go too far.
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