Publications

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It Has Been Handled: Hoping for Transformation in the Neoliberal University Setting

Published in The Journal of Autoethnography, 2025

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. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2025.6.2.243
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Emergent structures of attention on social media are driven by amplification and triad transitivity

Published in PNAS Nexus, 2025

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.

Recommended citation: Alyssa Hasegawa Smith, Jon Green, Brooke Foucault Welles, David Lazer, Emergent structures of attention on social media are driven by amplification and triad transitivity, PNAS Nexus, 2025;, pgaf106, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf106
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Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses

Published in Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, 2025

[IN PRESS] 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.

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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