Works In Progress

Understanding Transfeminine Disposability on Bluesky

Transfeminine users on Bluesky are subject to a transmisogynistic politics of disposability. This manifests, either directly or indirectly, in intracommunity attacks that often end with the target ostracized from the community. We argue that these attacks are driven by on-platformm, distributed folklore that evolves emergently within the social network, aided by platform affordances.

Optimally Seeding Influence in Dyadic Networks using Higher-Order Interactions

Using our A Blue Start dataset, which combines a higher-order Bluesky starter pack network with a dyadic following network, we want to figure out whether running influence maximization on a hypergraph (i.e. the starter pack network) can empirically also produce a highly influential set of seed nodes for spreading processes on the dyadic following network.