Published in Nature Scientific Data, 2026
We combine a higher-order dataset (Bluesky starter packs, which are user-created collections of accounts that other users can then follow en masse with one click) with a dyadic dataset (the Bluesky following network) in a dataset paper. The dataset is available on SOMAR at ICPSR, and we have a preprint of the dataset paper on arXiv.
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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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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Published in Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, 2025
[ACCEPTED] 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.
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 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 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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