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Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD

@shaheenk.bsky.social

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Associate Prof at Uni of Alabama JCM. Media Technology. Health Communication. Social Media.

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Ankolika De @ankolika.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart

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Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD @shaheenk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Collecting data in another country came with a slew of unanticipated challenges. In this paper to be presented at this year’s @FAccTConference we discuss these. Led and by the amazing @ankolikawrites, she, @drjessmaddox, and I discuss challenges faced across multiple studies!

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Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD @shaheenk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Thank you, Bibi! And yes please!!!

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Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD @shaheenk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hollering across our offices to each other like we’re 1970s corporate girlies had only about 50% to do with this. Thank you @jessmaddox.bsky.social!! And remember the same about you too!

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Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD @shaheenk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I promise this isn’t for April Fools! But on a more serious note, couldn’t have done it without the so many people in my corner who’ve been there through this process with me!

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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

New publication! It’s the hardest and most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written - my autoethnography of being a social media researcher experiencing BamaRushTok. “A social media professor, mediated: Being subject, object, and spectator in BamaRush TikTok” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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A social media professor, mediated: Being subject, object, and spectator in #BamaRush TikTok - Jessica Maddox, 2024

#BamaRushTok is a yearly viral event in which young women at the University of Alabama audition for spots in gender-specific social clubs (sororities). As a res...

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Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD @shaheenk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So excited about all these amazing conversations and great research at #NCA2024's (Re)Valuing the Creator Economy pre-conference!

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