Afsaneh Razi
afsanehrazi.bsky.social
Afsaneh Razi
@afsanehrazi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Drexel
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New paper time! 📄🎉

With @afsanehrazi.bsky.social, Aleksandra Sarcevic, @drchole.bsky.social, @robin-burke.bsky.social, and Katherine Wright, we write about how #RecSys for social good needs participatory design & evaluation. Coming soon to arXiv & ACM TORS. md.ekstrandom.net/pubs/tors-co...
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TORS paper on the need for participatory approaches to designing and evaluating recommender systems and other information access systems.
md.ekstrandom.net
August 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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🧒 Youth Online Safety in News w/@afsanehrazi.bsky.social,@elhamagk.bsky.social , @md.ekstrandom.net , and Matt Namvarpour,
📰 3.9K+ articles (2002–2024)
📈 Focus shifted to tech platforms & bullying
💬 Sentiment more negative over time
📌 Trends linked to policy & events
👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
May 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The ETHOS Research Lab had a strong presence at today’s DEGS conference at Drexel University. Our doctoral students presented their research on chatbots and teen online safety, tech for epilepsy self-management, and generative AI-risks for youths.
#DEGS2025 #ETHOSLab #Drexel
May 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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We are excited to share that our paper "Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms" was presented at ACM CHI 2025. Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1145/3706...
Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
doi.org
May 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Chatbots Shouldn’t Harass You

We reviewed 35,000+ user reviews of the Replika chatbot and found over 800 cases of harassment — including sexual advances, unwanted photo requests, and emotional manipulation.
May 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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new paper is up! we look at drug-related hashtags on tiktok to see how they are used and their content. what we find? no, #tiktok users are NOT using the platform to promote harmful behavior but rather to provide support for those in #recovery, advocate for #harmreduction
arxiv.org/abs/2501.16123
From #Dr00gtiktok to #harmreduction: Exploring Substance Use Hashtags on TikTok
The rise of TikTok as a primary source of information for youth, combined with its unique short-form video format, creates urgent questions about how substance use content manifests and spreads on the...
arxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Howdy 👋 We are the Data, Ontology, Networks, Usability, Textuality, and Safety (DONUTS) Collaboratory
@ Drexel College of Computing and Informatics led by @afsanehrazi.bsky.social @rezapour.bsky.social
John Seberger! Here is where you can find us:
🌐: donutscolab.com
🐦: twitter.com/DONUTSColab
DONUTS
Data Ontology Networks Users Textuality Safety
donutscolab.com
March 7, 2024 at 6:22 PM