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.
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.
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.