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
Published11/01/2021
URL Read at The Markup︎︎︎
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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TitleHow We Built a Pixel Inspector
Authors: Surya Mattu, Angie Waller, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, and Micha Gorelick
Published:04/08/2022
URL: Read at The Markup︎︎︎
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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TitleSplit Screen: How We Built a Facebook Feed Viewer
Authors Surya Mattu, Angie Waller, Jon Keegan, and Micha Gorelick
design Sam Morris
Published04/08/2022
URL Read at The Markup︎︎︎




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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TitleDetecting Objectifying Language in Online Professor Reviews
Authors Angie Waller and Kyle Gorman
Published10/16/2020
URL Read at the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL) Anthology︎︎︎
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.

titlePrecision Medicine Actor Map
researchers Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan
DesignAngie Waller
Published02/26/2018
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.

titleIconoclasm!
designAngie Waller
research Angie Waller and Karen Levy
Published2015
presented atData & 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
designAngie Waller
Published08/2015
URL https://dataprivacyproject.org/learning-modules/historical-overview/#title