Ben Zhang
@bzfzhang.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UMSI study data, AI infrastructure, labor, mobility and identity | he/him
http://benzhang.info
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Many congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social on his successful dissertation defense! @haimson.bsky.social and I are proud advisors, and anticipate great things from him as an assistant professor at Stonybrook University.
August 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Many congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social on his successful dissertation defense! @haimson.bsky.social and I are proud advisors, and anticipate great things from him as an assistant professor at Stonybrook University.
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Big congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social, who just defended his dissertation! It's been such an honor to work with Ben over the past 5 years, along with co-advisor @michaelannephd.bsky.social. Ben will start as Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, & I'm so excited to follow his research!
August 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Big congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social, who just defended his dissertation! It's been such an honor to work with Ben over the past 5 years, along with co-advisor @michaelannephd.bsky.social. Ben will start as Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, & I'm so excited to follow his research!
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Another week full of book events! 📘 🤩 ✈️
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Another week full of book events! 📘 🤩 ✈️
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Can't believe book pub day is here!! *Trans Technologies* is officially published today! Use discount code MITP30 for 30% off today only (unfortunately available only in the US) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...
Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson: 9780262551861 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology. Mainstream technologies often exclude or marginalize tran...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Can't believe book pub day is here!! *Trans Technologies* is officially published today! Use discount code MITP30 for 30% off today only (unfortunately available only in the US) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...
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Congrats to Senami Kojah for publishing her 1st 1st-authored paper! "Dialing it Back: Shadowbanning, Invisible Digital Labor, & how Marginalized Content Creators Attempt to Mitigate Impacts of Opaque Platform Governance" w/ @bzfzhang.bsky.social @bloggeronpole.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
"Dialing it Back:" Shadowbanning, Invisible Digital Labor, and how Marginalized Content Creators Attempt to Mitigate the Impacts of Opaque Platform Governance | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Compute...
Content creators with marginalized identities are disproportionately affected by shadowbanning
on social media platforms, which impacts their economic prospects online. Through
a diary study and inter...
dl.acm.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Congrats to Senami Kojah for publishing her 1st 1st-authored paper! "Dialing it Back: Shadowbanning, Invisible Digital Labor, & how Marginalized Content Creators Attempt to Mitigate Impacts of Opaque Platform Governance" w/ @bzfzhang.bsky.social @bloggeronpole.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...