Ever wondered how open triads become transitive? Amplification is one way this happens; we use causal inference and a novel Twitter API hack to empirically prove this.
Most Americans don’t follow political accounts on Twitter and see very little political content on average. However, 55% of Americans are worn out by the amount of political content they see on social media. Why? Political content spikes after key events, even (especially) in seemingly apolitical spaces.
When it comes to coverage of transgender issues, the interplay between national news outlets and state outlets is more complicated than a simple national-to-local agenda-setting pattern.
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Published in MIT CMS/W Thesis, 2017
My undergraduate CMS/W thesis on The Discourse, a Tumblr-based debate around asexual inclusion in the LGBTQIA+ community
Recommended citation: Smith, Alyssa. 2017. “The Discourse: An Online Debate.” Undergraduate Thesis, Cambridge, MA: MIT.
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Published in EMNLP, 2021
An open-source tool to help researchers without computational backgrounds do automated frame detection
Recommended citation: Bhatia, Vibhu, Vidya Prasad Akavoor, Sejin Paik, Lei Guo, Mona Jalal, Alyssa Smith, David Assefa Tofu, et al. 2021. “OpenFraming: Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data.” In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 242–50. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.28.
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Published in First Monday, 2023
What kinds of stories are told about Britney Spears online during the #FreeBritney movement?
Recommended citation: Smith, Alyssa Hasegawa, Adina Gitomer, and Brooke Foucault Welles. 2023. “You Want a Piece of Me: Britney Spears as a Case Study on the Prominence of Hegemonic Tales and Subversive Stories in Online Media.” First Monday, December. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i12.13314.
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Published in The Journal of Autoethnography, 2025
[IN PRESS] I draw on my experiences of online bullying via TERFism to make sense of the forces that act in the neoliberal university classroom to preclude transformative learning.
Recommended citation: Smith, Alyssa Hasegawa. 2025. “It Has Been Handled: Hoping for Transformation in the Neoliberal University Setting.“ Journal of Autoethnography, Volume 6 Issue 2.
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Co-presenters: Layla Hashemi, Amy Magnus, and Temitayo Osinubi
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Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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