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Cassidy Pyle

Hi! I'm a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan School of Information. I study social media, algorithms, and identity, broadly. I'm especially excited about investigating social media and algorithms' impact on college access patterns for minoritized students, such as first-generation and low-income students.


I am advised by Dr. Nicole Ellison and Dr. Nazanin Andalibi. I am affiliated with the Social Media Research Lab, ESC, and the Marginality in Socio-Technical Systems Lab (MiSTS). 

My work has been featured at the CHI, CSCW, and ICA conferences and in Social Media + Society and Current Opinion in Psychology.

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Publications

FORTHCOMING AT CSCW '23

Social Media and College-Related Social Support Exchange for
First-Generation, Low-Income Students: The Role of Identity Disclosures

Pyle, C., Ellison, N., & Andalibi, N. (2023). Social Media and College-Related Social Support Exchange for
First-Generation, Low-Income Students: The Role of Identity Disclosures. Forthcoming at ACM’s Conference on
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ’23)

CHI 2023

Conceptualizing Algorithmic Stigmatization

Andalibi, N., Pyle, C., Barta, K., Xian, L., Jacobs, A. Z., & Ackerman, M. S. (2023). Conceptualizing Algorithmic Stigmatization. Forthcoming at ACM's Conference on Human-Factors in Computing (CHI).

FORTHCOMING AT CSCW '23

Toward a Feminist Social Media Vulnerability Taxonomy

Barta, K., Pyle, C., Andalibi, N. (2023). Toward a Feminist Social Media Vulnerability Taxonomy. Proceedings of the ACM in Human-Computer Interaction (PACM). To be presented at CSCW '23.

SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY

"On My Head About It": College Aspirations, Social Media Participation, and Community Cultural Wealth

Brown, M., Pyle, C., Ellison, N.B. (2022). “On My Head About It”: College Aspirations, Social Media Participation, and Community Cultural Wealth. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221091545

CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY

Scholarship on Well-Being and Social Media: A Sociotechnical Perspective

Ellison, N.B., Pyle, C., Vitak, J. (2022). Scholarship on Well-Being and Social Media: A Sociotechnical Perspective. Current Opinion in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101340.

CHI 2021

LGBTQ Persons' Pregnancy Loss Disclosures to Known Ties on Social Media: Disclosure Decisions & Ideal Disclosure Environments

Pyle, C., Roosevelt, L., Lacombe-Duncan, A., & Andalibi, N. (2021, May). LGBTQ Persons' Pregnancy Loss Disclosures to Known Ties on Social Media: Disclosure Decisions and Ideal Disclosure Environments. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445331

CHI 2021

First-Generation, Low-Income Students as Data Subjects in Higher Education Profiling and Prediction AI/ML Applications

Pyle, C., Andalibi, N. (2021). First-Generation, Low-Income Students as Data Subjects in Higher

Education Profiling and Prediction AI/ML Applications. Workshop on Artificially Intelligent Technology for the Margins: A Multidisciplinary Design Agenda. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.

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Ph.D. Milestone Projects

DECEMBER 2022

Field Prelim Exam - Full Paper

This is the full paper of my field prelim exam on first-generation, low-income students' social comparison experiences on social media during the transition to college

DECEMBER 2022

Field Prelim Exam - Slides

This is the slide deck for the defense of my field prelim exam on first-generation, low-income students' social comparison experiences on social media during the transition to college.

FEBRUARY 2022

Pre-Candidacy Paper

This is my full pre-candidacy paper on first-generation, low-income students' identity disclosures on social media.

FEBRUARY 2022

Pre-Candidacy Slides

This is the slide deck for the defense of my pre-candidacy paper on first-generation, low-income students' identity disclosures on social media.

MAY 2021

Pre-Candidacy Proposal

This is my very first Ph.D. milestone, a proposal for my pre-candidacy paper on first-generation, low-income students' identity disclosures on social media.

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