research
I combine art, design, and computational linguistics approaches to studying online environments and translating research for broader audiences.
Papers and Methodologies
Citizen Browser is a reporting series that uses a custom application to collect what is algorithmically broadcasted to Facebook users.
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Title | Citizen Browser: How We Built a Facebook Inspector |
Authors | Surya Mattu, Leon Yin, Angie Waller, and Jon Keegan |
Published | 11/01/2021 |
URL | Read at The Markup︎︎︎ |
Awards | Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation |
Facebook Pixel Hunt is the first study to record the user data collected by Meta's tracking pixel at scale.
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Title | How We Built a Pixel Inspector |
Authors: | Surya Mattu, Angie Waller, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, and Micha Gorelick |
Published: | 04/08/2022 |
URL: | Read at The Markup︎︎︎ |
Awards: | 2023 National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award |
Split Screen provides a glimpse into the variations of Facebook feeds for participants of the Citizen Browser project, based on their demographics and voting preferences.
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Title | Split Screen: How We Built a Facebook Feed Viewer |
Authors | Surya Mattu, Angie Waller, Jon Keegan, and Micha Gorelick |
design | Sam Morris |
Published | 04/08/2022 |
URL | Read at The Markup︎︎︎ |
Detecting Objectifying Language in Online Professor Reviews examines the text content of reviews on Rate My Professor before and after the removal of the chili pepper rating.
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Title | Detecting Objectifying Language in Online Professor Reviews |
Authors | Angie Waller and Kyle Gorman |
Published | 10/16/2020 |
URL | Read at the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL) Anthology︎︎︎ |
Awards | Best Paper, Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text at EMNLP |
Design
Visualization of three major national precision medicine projects and the network of institutions connected to them.
title | Precision Medicine Actor Map |
researchers | Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan |
Design | Angie Waller |
Published | 02/26/2018 |
URL | https://datasociety.net/library/precision-medicine-national-actor-map/ |
Iconoclasm! is a multiplayer game that challenges the conventional imagery associated with big tech. It prompts players to draw tech terms without relying on cliches like puffy clouds and robots.
title | Iconoclasm! |
design | Angie Waller |
research | Angie Waller and Karen Levy |
Published | 2015 |
presented at | Data & Society |
A series of web modules, designed for librarians, outlining strategies for protecting patrons' online privacy and providing a historical context for our current information systems.
researchers | Bonnie Tijerina, Myeong June Hong Hurwitz, Seeta Peña Gangadharan |
design | Angie Waller |
Published | 08/2015 |
URL | https://dataprivacyproject.org/learning-modules/historical-overview/#title |