jonathan zong
@jonathanzong.com
information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
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jonathan zong
@jonathanzong.com
· Sep 4
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
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Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
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Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
Hiding participant identities is standard research ethics practice. But is it always the best fit for HCI accessibility work?
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
Abstract
data-and-design.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hiding participant identities is standard research ethics practice. But is it always the best fit for HCI accessibility work?
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
hello #ASSETS2025!
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
October 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
hello #ASSETS2025!
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Charts and diagrams use visual structure to convey meaning. For example, spacing and alignment groups data, spatial proximity links labels to elements. But this visual structure is typically invisible to screen readers.
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
Benthic: Perceptually Congruent Structures for Accessible Charts and Diagrams | MIT Visualization Group
Graphical representations—such as charts and diagrams—have a visual structure that communicates the relationship between visual elements. For instance, we might consider two elements to be connected w...
vis.mit.edu
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Charts and diagrams use visual structure to convey meaning. For example, spacing and alignment groups data, spatial proximity links labels to elements. But this visual structure is typically invisible to screen readers.
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
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✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I will be speaking next week at CU Boulder's Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium on @data-and-design.org's work co-designing accessible data visualization tools with blind and low-vision people.
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium
www.colorado.edu
October 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I will be speaking next week at CU Boulder's Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium on @data-and-design.org's work co-designing accessible data visualization tools with blind and low-vision people.
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
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This short paper by @jonathanzong.com has been brought up in more discussions in my day to day than any other piece. I love it immensely and it's something that anybody who is doing work with people (disabled, marginalized, or not) should at least read and consider.
One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com:
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
In accessibility research involving human subjects, researchers conventionally anonymize their research participants to protect privacy. However, a lack of intentionality about who to publicly acknowl...
arxiv.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This short paper by @jonathanzong.com has been brought up in more discussions in my day to day than any other piece. I love it immensely and it's something that anybody who is doing work with people (disabled, marginalized, or not) should at least read and consider.
be my colleague!
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology
jobs.colorado.edu
September 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
be my colleague!
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
I'm a speaker this year for @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social, a free 24-hour online livestream event on inclusive design and accessibility.
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
inclusivedesign24.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm a speaker this year for @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social, a free 24-hour online livestream event on inclusive design and accessibility.
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
last night i got to attend @loriemerson.net's amazing book launch lecture-performance event at boulder public library. here's my recap. so excited to read my new copy of the book!
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
Another Internet is Possible: Lori Emerson on “Other Networks”
How have people resourcefully used technology to create their own communication networks, and how can learning about this history help us reimagine the future of the internet?
data-and-design.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
last night i got to attend @loriemerson.net's amazing book launch lecture-performance event at boulder public library. here's my recap. so excited to read my new copy of the book!
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
rip haru urara. i'll keep trying my best
September 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
rip haru urara. i'll keep trying my best
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A whole issue of Dilettante Army on ekphrasis — from the method's origins; to image description / alt text + accessibility, to AI-based pattern recognition; to practices of describing films and maps and photobooks; to extremists' paranoid forensic *over*-analysis of memes + videos
Ekphrasis
Fall 2025
dilettantearmy.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A whole issue of Dilettante Army on ekphrasis — from the method's origins; to image description / alt text + accessibility, to AI-based pattern recognition; to practices of describing films and maps and photobooks; to extremists' paranoid forensic *over*-analysis of memes + videos
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
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Haptics stuff: historically, haptics development & coding has gotten kind of black boxed, so people don't understand what's going on underneath the hood. This piece from Razer on haptics implementation in Marvel Rivals attempts to undo that a bit.
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
Immersion Redefined: The Tech Behind Marvel Rivals’ Sensory Revolution - WYVRN
We often hear about immersion in video games—it's one of the few forms of art where this term is used so frequently, and for good reason: video games have a tool that other art forms lack—interaction....
www.wyvrn.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Haptics stuff: historically, haptics development & coding has gotten kind of black boxed, so people don't understand what's going on underneath the hood. This piece from Razer on haptics implementation in Marvel Rivals attempts to undo that a bit.
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
Reposted by jonathan zong
One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com:
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
In accessibility research involving human subjects, researchers conventionally anonymize their research participants to protect privacy. However, a lack of intentionality about who to publicly acknowl...
arxiv.org
August 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com:
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
the thing about using a university email to log into things is sometimes you leave the university but still need to log into those things
August 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
the thing about using a university email to log into things is sometimes you leave the university but still need to log into those things
time to rawdog my mental health until i have a mon mothma-style crashout set to the niamos chandrilan club mix
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
time to rawdog my mental health until i have a mon mothma-style crashout set to the niamos chandrilan club mix
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I hesitate to post this but since I’m not running for anything or trying to get you to subscribe to a Substack I’ll use this as a chance to say
1) If this president does something illegal to you, don’t go along with it.
1) If this president does something illegal to you, don’t go along with it.
July 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I hesitate to post this but since I’m not running for anything or trying to get you to subscribe to a Substack I’ll use this as a chance to say
1) If this president does something illegal to you, don’t go along with it.
1) If this president does something illegal to you, don’t go along with it.
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Our Kickstarter campaign for Slice of Life by Qu is now officially in it's final week! We've creeping up to 70% funded and know we'll get there! Thank you so much for the support thus far!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...
Slices of Life: A Comic Montage by Qu
Bulgilhan Press presents the complete English-language release of Qu's wonderful collection of sublime comics about life!
www.kickstarter.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Our Kickstarter campaign for Slice of Life by Qu is now officially in it's final week! We've creeping up to 70% funded and know we'll get there! Thank you so much for the support thus far!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...
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Wrote about how CITY The Animation came to be: a lasting friendship between author and studio, Keiichi Arawi's direct involvement, and director Taiichi Ishidate's strong belief that creators mustn't only make new things, but specifically do so in new ways blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/07/07/c...
July 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Wrote about how CITY The Animation came to be: a lasting friendship between author and studio, Keiichi Arawi's direct involvement, and director Taiichi Ishidate's strong belief that creators mustn't only make new things, but specifically do so in new ways blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/07/07/c...
there is some really savvy data storytelling happening in this video
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
there is some really savvy data storytelling happening in this video
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Honestly, I have listened to this several times and it's great. It was the lead track to the Queen of Katwe official movie soundtrack, which Zohran Mamdani curated and produced as the film's co-music supervisor: www.teenvogue.com/story/queen-...
June 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Honestly, I have listened to this several times and it's great. It was the lead track to the Queen of Katwe official movie soundtrack, which Zohran Mamdani curated and produced as the film's co-music supervisor: www.teenvogue.com/story/queen-...
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“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
www.bostonreview.net
June 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
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So honored to have been able to translate "Circular Universe" by @chitawei.bsky.social ! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
You can find this piece and many other incredible stories of trans and queer futurity in AMPLITUDES, ed. @leemandelo.bsky.social and published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
You can find this piece and many other incredible stories of trans and queer futurity in AMPLITUDES, ed. @leemandelo.bsky.social and published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
bookshop.org
May 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
So honored to have been able to translate "Circular Universe" by @chitawei.bsky.social ! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
You can find this piece and many other incredible stories of trans and queer futurity in AMPLITUDES, ed. @leemandelo.bsky.social and published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
You can find this piece and many other incredible stories of trans and queer futurity in AMPLITUDES, ed. @leemandelo.bsky.social and published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...