Alyssa Hasegawa Smith

Alyssa Hasegawa Smith

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I use mixed methods to study mobilization on social media.

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

You Want a Piece of Me: Britney Spears as a Case Study on the Prominence of Hegemonic Tales and Subversive Stories in Online Media.

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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OpenFraming: Open-Sourced Tool for Computational Framing Analysis of Multilingual Data.

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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The Discourse: An Online Debate

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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