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Shaheen Kanthawala, PhD

@shaheenk

Associate Prof at Uni of Alabama JCM. Media Technology. Health Communication. Social Media.

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I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart

13.10.2025 16:09 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Collecting data in another country came with a slew of unanticipated challenges. In this paper to be presented at this year’s @FAccTConference we discuss these. Led and by the amazing @ankolikawrites, she, @drjessmaddox, and I discuss challenges faced across multiple studies!

12.06.2025 18:13 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, Bibi! And yes please!!!

01.04.2025 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hollering across our offices to each other like we’re 1970s corporate girlies had only about 50% to do with this. Thank you @jessmaddox.bsky.social!! And remember the same about you too!

01.04.2025 15:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I promise this isn’t for April Fools!

But on a more serious note, couldn’t have done it without the so many people in my corner who’ve been there through this process with me!

01.04.2025 14:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A social media professor, mediated: Being subject, object, and spectator in #BamaRush TikTok - Jessica Maddox, 2024 #BamaRushTok is a yearly viral event in which young women at the University of Alabama audition for spots in gender-specific social clubs (sororities). As a res...

New publication! It’s the hardest and most vulnerable thing I’ve ever written - my autoethnography of being a social media researcher experiencing BamaRushTok.

“A social media professor, mediated: Being subject, object, and spectator in BamaRush TikTok”

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

23.12.2024 15:55 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 2

So excited about all these amazing conversations and great research at #NCA2024's (Re)Valuing the Creator Economy pre-conference!

20.11.2024 16:06 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0