publications

academic publications

Journal Articles (peer reviewed, archival)

  1. In Submission: New Media and Society - Alper, M., Rodgers, R., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., and Harrison, K. (2024). “actually an ED and not just a quirky aspect of autism”: TikTok as Forum and Mediator of Autistic Food Issues and Eating Disorders

  2. Alper, M., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., Feinberg, S. (2023). TikTok as Algorithmically Mediated Biographical Illumination: Autism, Self-Discovery, and Platformed Diagnosis on #autisktok. To Appear in: New Media and Society. read a preprint here

  3. Dym, B., Simpson, E., Fong, O., and striegl, l. (2023). The Internet is Not Forever: Challenges and Sustainability in Video Game Archiving and Preservation. To Appear In: The Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1123/jege.2022-0041

  4. Simpson, E., Dalal, S., and Semaan, B. (2023). “Hey, Can You Add Captions?”: The Critical Infrastructuring Practices of Neurodiverse People on TikTok. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, Article 57 (APR 2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3579490 read a preprint here

  5. Wu, Q., Williams, L.K., Simpson, E., and Semaan, B. (2022) Conversations About Crime: Re-enforcing and Fighting Against Platform Racism on Reddit. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW1, Article 54 (April 2022), 38 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3512901

  6. Yoon, N., Hemsley, J., Smith, A., Simpson, E., & Eakins, J. (2022). Super‐amplifiers! The role of Twitter extended party networks in political elections. Policy & Internet. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.295

  7. Simpson, E., Hamann, A., Semaan, B. (2022). How to Tame “Your” Algorithm: LGBTQ+ Users’ Domestication of TikTok. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction. Vol. 6, GROUP, Article 22 (January 2022), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492841 read a preprint here

best paper, GROUP ‘23

Conference Papers (peer reviewed, archival)

  1. In Submission: CHI - Simpson, E. and Semaan, B. (2024). Infrastructures for Inspiration: The Routine Construction and Maintenance of Inspiration on the Creative Internet.

  2. Taylor, J. Simpson, E., Tran, A.*, Brubaker, J., Fox, S., and Zhu, H. Cruising the ACM on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI. (2024). In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642494 read a preprint here [equal contributions]

  3. Simpson, E., and Semaan, B. (2023). Rethinking Creative Labor: A Sociotechnical Examination of Creativity & Creative Work on TikTok. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.35 read a preprint here

  4. Simpson, E. and Semaan, B. (2021). For You, or For “You”?: Everyday LGBTQ+ Encounters with TikTok. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. 4, CSCW3, Article 252 (January 2021), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3432951 read a preprint here

Special Interest Groups and Workshops (lightly peer reviewed, archival)

  1. DeVito, M. A., Lustig, C., Simpson, E., Allison, K., Chuanromanee, T., Spiel, K., Ko, A., Rode, J., Dym, B., Muller, M., Scheuerman, M.K., Walker, A.M. Brubaker, J., and Ahmed, A. (2021, May). Queer in HCI: Strengthening the Community of LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-3). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3450403

  2. DeVito, M.A., Walker, A.M., Lustig, C., Ko, A., Spiel, K., Ahmed, A., Allison, K., Scheuerman, M., Dym, B., Brubaker, J., Simpson, E., Bagalkot, N., Raval, N., Muller, M., Rode, J., and Gray, M.L. (2020, April). Queer in HCI: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Researchers and Research Across Domains. Special Interest Group Convened at the 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381058

Posters (lightly peer reviewed, archival)

  1. Simpson, E. (2018). Integrated & Alone: The Use of Hashtags in Twitter Social Activism. In Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2018) (pp. 237-240). New York: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274064

Abstracts (lightly peer reviewed, non-archival)

  1. Rauchberg, J.S., Alper, M., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., and Feinberg, S. (2023). “Here to have fun and flight ableism”: #Autisktok User Bios as NeuroQueer Micro-Activist Platform Affordances. To be presented at the 2023 Association of Internet Researchers Conference in Philadelphia, PA. October 18-21, 2023.

  2. Dym, B., Simpson, E., and striegl, l.r. (2022) Accidental Archiving and Sustainable Game Preservation Work. (Submission for special issue on Diversity and Sustainability in Electronic Gaming and Esports)

Positioning Papers (lightly peer reviewed, non-archival)

  1. Simpson, E. (2021). Resilience Strategies for LGBTQ+ TikTok Users. Workshop paper for Against Platform Determinism Academic Workshop, held by Data and Society in conjunction with the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy (MTD) at McGill University. Online Asynchronous and Montreal, QC (March, 2021).

  2. Simpson, E., and Semaan, B. (2019). Resisting Identity Invalidation: Exploring Danger in Assumed Safe Spaces Online Amongst Transgender Women. Workshop on Digital Wellbeing for Marginalized Communities, held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2019), Austin, TX. New York: ACM.

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations

  1. Alper, M., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., Feinberg, S. (2023). TikTok as Algorithmic Biographical Illumination: Autism, Self-Discovery, and Platformed Diagnosis on #autisktok. To be presented at the 109th National Communication Association Annual Convention – Human Communication and Technology Division. National Harbor, Maryland. November 16-19, 2023.

  2. Rauchberg, J.S., Alper, M., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., and Feinberg, S. (2023). “Here to have fun and flight ableism”: #Autisktok User Bios as NeuroQueer Micro-Activist Platform Affordances. To be presented at the 2023 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference. Philadelphia, PA. October 18-21, 2023.

  3. Alper, M., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., Feinberg, S. (2023). “I’m My Own Target Audience”: Platform Affordances and Neurodivergent Young People’s Cultural Production on #Autisktok. TikTok Cultures Research Network Research Symposium on TikTok and Children. Online, May 8, 2023.

  4. Nutt, R. Gray, L., Simpson, E., Yeon, J. (2022). Visualizing Collective Voices Online: Narrative, literacy, and African American Information Communities in a Photographic Archive 54th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association. Jyväskylä, Finland, 10-12 August 2022.

  5. Gray, L., Simpson, E., and Yeon, J. (2021). Information Community Identity: Examining the Photographic Legacy of Henry Booth Settlement House in Chicago, 1900-1965. Library History Seminar XI, Spring 2021, Baton Rouge, LA.

  6. Gray, L., Simpson, E., and Yeon, J. (2020). (Re)Constructing an African American Communal Space: An Information Analysis of a Chicago Public Housing Archive, 1955-1970. 2020 SIG AH Virtual Symposium: Data Curation and Visualization in the Arts & Humanities.