Sukrit Venkatagiri

@sukrit@hci.social
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Oh, hi there 👋

💼 Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College

👨🏽‍💻 HCI, crowdsourcing, collective action

💡 Misinformation in podcasts🎙️, video 📺, AI-generated media (deepfakes) 🤖, and ephemeral content ✨

📆 Fall 2023: Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College.

🔄 Previously: Virginia Tech, Microsoft Research, Facebook

Websitehttps://www.sukritv.com/
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Sukrit VenkatagiriApr 17, 2024
jessica vitak (she/her)Apr 17, 2024
We're excited to share the first CFP for CSCW 2025 with a new paper submission deadline of July 2, 2024. Read for more details and share with your networks: https://cscw.acm.org/2025/ #cscw2025
Sukrit VenkatagiriNov 2, 2023
tarletonNov 2, 2023
Really thoughtful, really provocative. Worth reading in full. Lee Vinsel, "How to Be a Better Reactionary: Time and Knowledge in Technology Regulation"
https://sts-news.medium.com/how-to-be-a-better-reactionary-1630b5098fbc
Sukrit VenkatagiriOct 14, 2023

Ever wonder why Mastodon doesn't have a quote repost feature like Twitter's quote retweet? In our
@acmcompass 2023 paper we found that replies *reframed* the conversation of a post compared to quote retweets. But retweets from *politically opposed* accounts twisted the OPs' words.

Work led by Himanshu Zade and Spencer Williams, with support from Theresa Tran, Christina Smith, (me), Gary Hsieh, and Kate Starbird.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3625680

To Reply or to Quote: Comparing Conversational Framing Strategies on Twitter | ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies

Social media platform affordances allow users to interact with content and with each other in diverse ways. For example, on Twitter,1 users can like, reply, retweet, or quote another tweet. Though it’s clear that these different features allow various ...

ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies
Sukrit VenkatagiriOct 13, 2023
I'll be at #CSCW2023 and can't wait to meet old and new friends! Let's talk if you're interested in cross-platform visual misinformation, the (mis)uses of AI-generated imagery, or what faculty life is like at a liberal arts college. Swarthmore CS is also hiring multiple visiting faculty.
Sukrit VenkatagiriSep 5, 2023
First day teaching Social Computing at Swarthmore College! We did a speculative design exercise — imagining what social technologies will be like in 10 yrs. Students also grappled w/ how we can better design the systems that we inhabit, why we have a responsibility to do so, & why it's so difficult.
Show threadSukrit VenkatagiriAug 11, 2023
We'll research how to resist misinformation & other types of technologically-mediated harm, build sociotechnical systems to repair trust in each other & our institutions, and empower people to advocate for their rights while refusing harmful data & labor practices ✊
Sukrit VenkatagiriAug 11, 2023

I had a wonderful year as a postdoc at UW working with Kate Starbird & so many amazing students. Now, I'm excited to start as an assistant professor of computer science at Swarthmore College where I'll direct the Collective Resilience Lab.

Here's a few photos from my first week!

Show threadSukrit VenkatagiriAug 1, 2023
We've found ones from Michael Bernstein, Amy Zhang, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Eric Gilbert, Juho Kim, Casey Fiesler, Amy Zhang, and Steven Dow. We'd especially welcome syllabi from outside the U.S./North America.
Sukrit VenkatagiriAug 1, 2023

Catherine Grevet Delcourt and I are compiling a list of recently-taught social computing* course syllabi. If you teach one or know someone who does, reply or DM me with a link to the syllabus! 🙏

* Social computing ~= CSCW, not purely computational social science.

Sukrit VenkatagiriJul 27, 2023
Taylor LorenzJul 27, 2023
The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/
HISD to eliminate librarians, turn some libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses

Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and utilizing some of the libraries as ‘Team Centers” where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced.

KPRC Click2Houston