Emelia Hughes

Personal Websites

• Emelia Hughes

Recent Publications:

• Hughes, Wang, Juneja, Mitra, Zhang: Introducing Credibility Signals and Citations to Video-Sharing Platforms, ICWSM 2021 Workshop Paper
• Moran, Prochaska, Schlegel, Hughes, Prout: Misinformation or Activism: Mapping Networked Moral Panic Through An Analysis of #SaveTheChildren, AoIR 2021 Selected Paper

Projects:

• Study of algorithmically driven and event-based communities, focusing on TikTok
• TikTok Hot or Not - determining whether the engagement (likes, views, etc) a video receives correlates to user’s true preferences

About me:

I am a first year PhD student working in the area of Social Computing, mainly focusing on online communities, social media, and the spread of information online. Right now, I am working on projects related to algorithmically driven and event based communities on TikTok.

Before starting at Notre Dame, I was at the University of Washington, where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Informatics and a Bachelor of Arts in Drawing & Painting. I worked with Dr. Amy Zhang at the Social Futures Lab on combating misinformation on video-sharing platforms. I also worked with Dr. Rachel Moran at the Center for an Informed Public on the #SaveTheChildren QAnon movement on Instagram.

Research Interests:

social computing, social media, misinformation

Education:

• BS, Informatics (human-computer interaction)
• BA, Drawing & Painting