For more open and equitable public discussions on social media, try “meronymity,” researchers suggest. They found platforms whose users reveal only certain verified aspects of their identity empowered less confident participants to speak up. mitsha.re/Ex2Z50Rj20M

My work on using Meronymity to help mitigate social barriers in public social interaction is featured on the Home Page of MIT News! 🤩

Check out the article: news.mit.edu/2024/litweetur…

Paper link: arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape…

Tune into the OpenAI Forum this Thursday 4/18 to hear me talk about recent work (w/ Quan Ze (Jim) Chen aka @[email protected] Inyoung Cheong Amy Zhang is @[email protected] on Mastodon) on case repositories and how they can be used for collective alignment! forum.openai.com/public/events/…

Engaging with senior researchers publicly can be scary for newbies, but anonymous communication lacks social context. Nouran's #CHI2024 paper introduces #meronymity where users reveal facets of their identity. Read about her rich interviews & field study of the LiTweeture system:

Really excited about this #chi2024 paper led by Nouran and in collaboration with Semantic Scholar Research @ AI2 to explore how to have more inclusive public scholarly conversation!! We balance tradeoffs btwn full identity disclosure and anonymity with the idea of *meronimity*. Read more ➡️