What We Do
Researching online safety, ethics and AI governance to preserve agency, safety and dignity amid rapid technological change
The DONUTS Collaboratory, co-founded by three faculty in Drexel University’s Information Science Department at CCI, brings a values-centered, data-driven, and language-driven approach to sociotechnical problems. Improving people’s everyday lives, by preserving their agency, safety and dignity amid rapid technological change, lies at the heart of the DONUTS team’s research into digital discourse, ethics, privacy, safety and AI governance.
Research Faculty & PhD Students
- Afsaneh Razi, PhD, professor and lab co-director
- Shadi Rezapour, PhD, professor and lab co-director
- John S. Seberger, PhD, professor and lab co-director
- Elham Aghakhani, PhD student
- Layla Bouzoubaa, PhD student
- Sanonda Datta Gupta, PhD student
- Matt Namvarpour, PhD student
- Aria Pessianzade, PhD student
View a complete list of researchers on the DONUTS Collaboratory’s website.
Recent Publications
- Bouzoubaa, L., Rezapour, R. (In press). "Euphoria’s Hidden Voices: Examining Emotional Resonance and Shared Substance Use Experience of Viewers on Reddit." In Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable. Workshop Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.
- Becker, M., Han, K., Werthmann, A., Rezapour, R., Lee, H., Diesner, J., and Witt, A. (In press). "Detecting Impact Relevant Sections in Scientific Research." In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).
- Abdessamed, Y., Rezapour, R., & Wilson, S. (2024). "Identifying Narrative Content in Podcast Transcripts." In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 2631-2643). Link to full paper
- Razi, Afsaneh & Seberger, John & Alsoubai, Ashwaq & Naher, Nurun & Choudhury, Munmun & Wisniewski, Pamela. (2024). "Toward Trauma-Informed Research Practices with Youth in HCI: Caring for Participants and Research Assistants When Studying Sensitive Topics." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8. 1-31. 10.1145/3637411. Link to full paper
- McDonald, Nora & Seberger, John & Razi, Afsaneh. (2024). "For Me or Not for Me? The Ease With Which Teens Navigate Accurate and Inaccurate Personalized Social Media Content." 1-7. 10.1145/3613904.3642297. Link to full paper
- Bouzoubaa, Layla & Young, Jordyn & Rezapour, Rezvaneh (Shadi). (2024). "Exploring the Landscape of Drug Communities on Reddit: A Network Study." 558-565. IEEE International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). 10.1145/3625007.3629125. Link to full paper
- Ehsani, Ramtin & Rezapour, Rezvaneh (Shadi) & Chatterjee, Preetha. (2023). "Exploring Moral Principles Exhibited in OSS: A Case Study on GitHub Heated Issues." In the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE). Link to full paper
View a complete list of publications on the DONUTS Collaboratory’s website.
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