• mixed methods, primarily utilizing computational social science approaches alongside interview studies;
• my work is interdisciplinary. i am influenced by political science + government studies, sociology, human-computer interaction, science and technology studies, critical computing + data studies, and feminist theory;
• my dissertation revolves around how community autonomy to self-govern in different ways can bring us to more robust paradigms of platform governance. much of this was inspired by the basic observation that online groups *variably* defer to, transform, and subvert platform governance, which intuitively has implications for platform-level regulation.

apr 2024: i have two active projects i am leading right now, both part of my dissertation. one is an interview study on privacy and community governance on the fediverse, a decentralized social network [link]. another is a quantitative study using digital trace data from English Wikipedia to analyze the impact of (Wikipedia) rules on communities initiativves to counter online content bias (specifically re: gender) [link].

please refer to cv for full list.

🏵️ = award; 🔓 = open-access

forthcoming
(contact for pre-prints!)

• Huang, Evey, Abhraneel Sarma, Sohyeon Hwang, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, and Stevie Chancellor. Opportunities, tensions, and challenges in computational approaches to addressing online harassment. In DIS2024.

peer-reviewed, archival work

• Hwang, Sohyeon, Charles Kiene, Serene Ong, and Aaron Shaw. 2024. Adopting third-party bots for managing online communities. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 216 (April 2024), 25 pages. [doi 🔓]
• Hwang, Sohyeon, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, and Daniel Romero. 2023. Information retention in the multi-platform sharing of science. In Proc. 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Limassol, Cyprus. [doi 🔓]
• Hwang, Sohyeon and Aaron Shaw. 2022. Rules and rule-making in the five largest Wikipedias. In Proc. 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Atlanta, Georgia. [doi 🔓] [wikimedia research showcase]
• 🏵️ Hwang, Sohyeon, and Jeremy Foote. 2021. Why do people participate in small online communities? Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 462 (October 2021), 25 pages. [doi 🔓]

recent workshop, poster, and conference presentations (juried, non-archival)

• Hwang, Sohyeon, Charles Kiene, Serene Ong, and Aaron Shaw. 2024. Adopting third-party bots for managing online communities. 74th Annual ICA Conference. June 2024. Gold Coast, Australia.
• Matt Gaughan, Kaylea Champion, Sohyeon Hwang. 2024. Engineering Formality and Software Risk in Debian Python Packages. SANER2024. March 2024. Rovaniemi, Finland
• Hwang, Sohyeon, Priyanka Nanayakkara, Yan Shvartzshnaider. Whose policy? Privacy challenges of decentralized platforms.
• PrivaCI Symposium 2023, Sept 2023. Toronto, Canada.
• Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously Towards A Research Agenda and New Practice (CHI 2023 Workshop). Hamburg, Germany. April 2023. [link]

i am always happy to talk with folks outside of academic venues about research work in my domain! some stuff in the past:

• Variation and overlap in the peer production of community rules. Wikimedia Research Showcase. 20 September 2023. [recording]
• Lessons on decentralized governance from online communities. Governance Learning Forum 2022. Hosted by Other Internet. 19-20 August 2022.
• Content moderation on Discord. D/ARC (Discord Academic Research Community) - Bonfire Chat. (Panel). 18 May 2022. Virtual. [recording]
• Learning from small and overlapping communities. Science of Community Dialogues, by the Community Data Science Collective. 11 February 2022. Virtual.
• Where do rules come from? Comparing rule creation processes and outcomes across different language Wikipedias. Discord Moderator Discord Academic Talks (DMDAT). 13 January 2022. Virtual Q&A.
• The science of social media. Uncontrolled Variables: A Science & Comedy Show, 2 September 2021. Lincoln Lodge Theater, Chicago, IL.

• Li, Hanlin, Leah Ajmani, Moyan Zhou, Nicholas Vincent, Sohyeon Hwang, Tiziano Piccardi, Sneha Narayan, Sherae Daniel, Veniamin Veselovsky. "Ethical Tensions, Norms, and Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work". Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2022. [site].