a great time today with our SIG attendees, who sketched out some lovely, hopeful alternative tech futures ๐ฎ #cscw2025
many thanks to co-organizers beatriz palacios abad, vishฤl sharma, @hanlinliii.bsky.social, and @alexandrato.bsky.social; excited for the future of this community!
i'll be giving a paper talk on monday @ 16:30 in troldtog: "Design(ing) Fictions for Collective Civic Reporting of Privacy Harms"
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tl;dr: i'm on the academic job market; say hi at #CSCW2025!
i'm a distinguished postdoc fellow at northeastern studying how tech's deep entanglements into society have caused concrete harms to people and changed what privacy fundamentally means (is it dead? is it recoverable? how? ๐จ)
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please reach out with any tenure-track faculty opportunities in information, media, communication, or interdisciplinary computer science departments ๐ซก
learn more about me here: yuxiwu.com
i'll be hosting a SIG with some familiar faces on wednesday @ 11 in troldtog: "Alternative Technology Consumption Under Capitalism"
if you have interests in resistance, refusal, repair, and post-growth in technology design, we'd love to see you there ๐ฏ
yuxiwu.com/pubs/cscw25_...
โAIโ isnโt a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. Itโs the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about โresponsibleโ use.
in storyboard-scaffolded discussions, we found striking mismatches in how homeless individuals and service providers considered security and privacy in their interactions with each other
see our preprint for more on how our participants envisioned concrete ways for aligning these views โฌ๏ธ
