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I want to apply my research of technology, ethics, and social justice issues to a career in UX Research centering the experiences and voices of BIPOC communities.
HIGHLIGHTED RESEARCH
BLACK TWITTER AND THE GREEN BOOK
A Mixed Methods Qualitative Project
I led a team of four other researchers from research design to publication writing. 18 participants were interviewed and over 75,000 tweets were collected using MAXQDA. We used Taguette to conduct open coding. As a group, we wrote and published two papers. News coverage about our research can be seen below and includes a live interview with Zerlina on MSNBC as well as print stories in The Root, Boulder Weekly, and the Denver Post.
RECENT NEWS COVERAGE
Here is a selection of news stories created about my latest research.
Marketplace Tech
November 2022
The Guardian
November 2022
Public News Service
April 2022
The Coloradan
March 2022
The Denver Channel
December 2021
Zerlina | MSNBC
December 2021
The Root
November 2021
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Denver Post
November 2021
Boulder Weekly
November 2021
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Lead a research project across multiple institutions to study Black Twitter and put it in conversation with the Negro Motorist Green Book. We collected tweets using MAXQDA and after obtaining IRB approval conducted 18 semi-structured interviews.
Support NCWIT in updating their online resources including providing more recent research for publications on their website.
Prepare ethics-related assignments and supplementary materials for introductory programming courses in Computer and Information Science.
CSCW
Shamika Klassen, Sara Kingsley, Kalyn McCall, Joy Weinberg, and Casey Fiesler. (2021). More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.5, CSCW2, Article 458 (October 2021), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479602
CHI
Christina N. Harrington, Shamika Klassen, and Yolanda A. Rankin. 2022. “All that You Touch, You Change”: Expanding the Canon of Speculative Design Towards Black Futuring. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502118 [Honorable Mention]
GROUP
Shamika Klassen and Casey Fiesler. 2023. The Stoop: Speculation on Positive Futures of Black Digital Spaces. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, GROUP, Article 17 (January 2023), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3567567 [Best Paper Honorable Mention]
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
- Alice Walker
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