College of Engineering

Join the Department of Human Centered Design for our spring Preliminary Exam presentations.

HCDE doctoral students in their second year of the PhD program will overview their research project, discuss research methods and any results thus far, and describe how this research contributes to the field. Presentations will be about 15 minutes with time for a brief Q&A after each talk.

This paper advances the understanding of the digital and cultural significance of the online community colloquially known as the “black manosphere.” Through the use of Critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) and virtual ethnography on prominent misogynistic content creators on YouTube catering to black males, we analyze the types of strategies for community building, the information environment, and ideological orientation. This work conceptualizes black manosphere as distinct from the mainstream and extends the landscape for investigation into the community’s narratives, ideology, politics and hierarchical construction of gender online.
 

• 1:30 p.m. | Nisha Devasia, "The Role of Narrative in Misinformation Education Games"
• 2 p.m. | Nina Lutz, “'We’re not all construction workers': Algorithmic Compression of Latinidad on TikTok"
• 2:30 p.m. | Adiza Awwal, "Polarizing Black masculine on YouTube: Influencer pedestalization, information sharing and misogyny"
• 3 p.m. | Anoolia Gakhokidze, "Chokepoints in the Cloud: Generative Potential of Breakdown in Cloud Infrastructures"
• 3:30 p.m. | McKane Andrus, "From Data Activism to Activism in a Time of Dataism: Affirming Epistemological Heterogeneity in Social Movements"

• 1:30 p.m. | Adrian Rodriguez, "Towards Gamified Crafting for Blind and Low-Vision Players"    
• 2 p.m. | Claire Florence Weizenegger, "Everyday Surveillance and Consumer Smart Products: Investigating Privacy, Power, and Interpersonal Dynamics between Primary and Adjacent Users"