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 16, 2023
@andresmh @dan @samanthadalal this is very cool! What're your plans moving forward? Also, you should definitely watch the series about Travis Kalanick/Uber, if you haven't already. It's called "Super Pumped."
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
Show threadSukrit VenkatagiriOct 24, 2023
@jordanwb IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black! I had my students read it for our social computing course but it's super relevant for a database course too
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.
Show threadSukrit VenkatagiriSep 12, 2023
@ali well not like they would say the opposite :) and it's at least a bit of side eye for other companies, "Well what are y'all doing?"
Show threadSukrit VenkatagiriSep 12, 2023
@ali at $200/mo I'm sure 🙈
Show threadSukrit VenkatagiriSep 5, 2023
@luis_in_brief upper level undergrad course! Adapted from several grad courses in social computing.
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.