Deadline extended to August 7th! (Acceptances go out by Aug 10, ahead of the Aug 11 early registration deadline.)

JaeWon Kim@jaewonk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Positech is back #CSCW2026 ! Join the wonderful group of organizers for a day of collaborative discussions on how social technologies can help people build the capacity to care about global challenges in ways that are both effective and sustainable :)

Positech is back #CSCW2026 ! Join the wonderful group of organizers for a day of collaborative discussions on how social technologies can help people build the capacity to care about global challenges in ways that are both effective and sustainable :)

Lindsay Popowski@popowski.bsky.social · 3w ago

People today are drowning in awareness of suffering with nowhere productive to put it. This is a problem that social technology research can and should tackle! At our #CSCW2026 workshop, we’ll spend the day exploring how to design toward sustainable care. Apply by Aug 3: positech.github.io/cscw2026

After going down a rabbit hole re: U.S. TikTok's new privacy policy, I couldn't stop thinking about how even if some of the alarm was based on misleading information, it's not surprising that everyone assumes the worst. Anyway, I wrote about this: theconversation.com/fears-about-...

Fears about TikTok’s policy changes point to a deeper problem in the tech industry

Following the app’s sale, the company’s updated privacy policy and terms of service set off alarm bells. The reaction shows Big Tech has lost the public’s trust.

theconversation.com

Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966

I'll be sort of presenting our CSCW paper on teen social media privacy this Tuesday at 2:30pm @Bekken. "Sort of" because I wrote it quite a while ago and my views have shifted since. #CSCW2025 #teen #privacy #socialmedia #anxiety #fear

workshop happening soon! (+will be presenting a paper on teen social media privacy on Tuesday @2pm) #cscw2025 😊

JaeWon Kim@jaewonk.bsky.social · last yr.

Following up on last year’s Positech workshop, thrilled to announce our workshop @acm-cscw.bsky.social 2025 on how design might help us cultivate deliberate hope in the face of complex societal challenges, whether in our everyday or broader aspirations 🌱 cfp 👉 positech-cscw-2025.github.io

Following up on last year’s Positech workshop, thrilled to announce our workshop @acm-cscw.bsky.social 2025 on how design might help us cultivate deliberate hope in the face of complex societal challenges, whether in our everyday or broader aspirations 🌱 cfp 👉 positech-cscw-2025.github.io