Jesse Haapoja
@jhaapj.bsky.social
Interested in relationships between humans and algorithmic systems. PhD (social psychology). Postdoc at Aalto University.
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Jesse Haapoja
@jhaapj.bsky.social
· Nov 19
New article out!
Our latest research in New Media & Society focuses on the moral judgements of "pleasing the algorithm"—how creators engage with algorithms for visibility on digital platforms. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Our latest research in New Media & Society focuses on the moral judgements of "pleasing the algorithm"—how creators engage with algorithms for visibility on digital platforms. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Moral orders of pleasing the algorithm - Jesse Haapoja, Laura Savolainen, Hanna Reinikainen, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, 2024
This article examines how ‘pleasing the algorithm’, or engaging with algorithms to gain rewards such as visibility for one’s content on digital platforms, is tr...
journals.sagepub.com
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What a lovely #cscw2025 session of authors, papers and audience we had on "bipartisan discourse online". 😍
With Pooja Casula, @richmondywong.bsky.social, Sarchin Pendse and Marina Kogan, @jhaapj.bsky.social and more...
Check out the papers: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/my...
With Pooja Casula, @richmondywong.bsky.social, Sarchin Pendse and Marina Kogan, @jhaapj.bsky.social and more...
Check out the papers: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/my...
October 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
What a lovely #cscw2025 session of authors, papers and audience we had on "bipartisan discourse online". 😍
With Pooja Casula, @richmondywong.bsky.social, Sarchin Pendse and Marina Kogan, @jhaapj.bsky.social and more...
Check out the papers: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/my...
With Pooja Casula, @richmondywong.bsky.social, Sarchin Pendse and Marina Kogan, @jhaapj.bsky.social and more...
Check out the papers: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2025/my...
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I presented our work yesterday at #CSCW2025 extending the algorithmic crystal framework to the social self to account for the increasingly socially-infused nature of personalized algorithms...🧬🔮✨
If you missed it, you can check out our paper here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
If you missed it, you can check out our paper here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Not Just 'For You': How the Algorithmic Crystal Mediates Communication and Identity Work on TikTok's FYP | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Personalized algorithms are central to how people discover information and engage
with media online. Drawing on interviews and screen-sharing sessions with TikTok users
(N=27), we extend the algorithm...
dl.acm.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I presented our work yesterday at #CSCW2025 extending the algorithmic crystal framework to the social self to account for the increasingly socially-infused nature of personalized algorithms...🧬🔮✨
If you missed it, you can check out our paper here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
If you missed it, you can check out our paper here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Back from my hiatus on here to announce our first study on Digital Ideologies. With @jhaapj.bsky.social and @matnel.bsky.social we explored connections between the affordances of social media and political ideologies.
There are differences… 🧵
📄 Get the #CSCW paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
There are differences… 🧵
📄 Get the #CSCW paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Affordances and Design Principles of The Political Left and Right | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Like any form of technology, social media services embed values. To examine how societal
values may be present in these systems, we focus on exploring political ideology as
a value system. We organise...
dl.acm.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Back from my hiatus on here to announce our first study on Digital Ideologies. With @jhaapj.bsky.social and @matnel.bsky.social we explored connections between the affordances of social media and political ideologies.
There are differences… 🧵
📄 Get the #CSCW paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
There are differences… 🧵
📄 Get the #CSCW paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
New article out, just in time before #CSCW2025!
This piece, by @eppfel.bsky.social, me and @matnel.bsky.social, looks at what happens if we ask politicians with different ideological leanings and party affiliations to design social media services.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#hcisky #hci #CSCW
This piece, by @eppfel.bsky.social, me and @matnel.bsky.social, looks at what happens if we ask politicians with different ideological leanings and party affiliations to design social media services.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#hcisky #hci #CSCW
Affordances and Design Principles of The Political Left and Right | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Like any form of technology, social media services embed values. To examine how societal
values may be present in these systems, we focus on exploring political ideology as
a value system. We organise...
dl.acm.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New article out, just in time before #CSCW2025!
This piece, by @eppfel.bsky.social, me and @matnel.bsky.social, looks at what happens if we ask politicians with different ideological leanings and party affiliations to design social media services.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#hcisky #hci #CSCW
This piece, by @eppfel.bsky.social, me and @matnel.bsky.social, looks at what happens if we ask politicians with different ideological leanings and party affiliations to design social media services.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#hcisky #hci #CSCW
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🚨New publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. “Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba” is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚨New publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. “Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba” is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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📚 New paper alert! 🌎 "Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse" was just published in Platforms & Society, a new-ish journal focused on critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization. (1/x)
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📚 New paper alert! 🌎 "Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on digital platform companies’ environmental discourse" was just published in Platforms & Society, a new-ish journal focused on critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization. (1/x)
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Jos käyttäjät saisivat päättää, minkälainen olisi ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja? Tätä selvittivät @jhaapj.bsky.social ja kollegat tuoreessa artikkelissaan. Tuloksissa korostuvat muun muassa pätevyys ja vastuullisuus.
rajapinta.co/2025/09/22/m...
rajapinta.co/2025/09/22/m...
Millainen on ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja?
Sosiaalisen median poliittisilla keskusteluilla on huono maine. Tuoreen artikkelimme mukaan ihanteellista verkkokeskustelun osallistujaa määrittää pätevyys, vastuullisuus ja vilpittömyys, sekä sito…
rajapinta.co
September 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Jos käyttäjät saisivat päättää, minkälainen olisi ihanteellinen poliittisen sosiaalisen median keskustelun osallistuja? Tätä selvittivät @jhaapj.bsky.social ja kollegat tuoreessa artikkelissaan. Tuloksissa korostuvat muun muassa pätevyys ja vastuullisuus.
rajapinta.co/2025/09/22/m...
rajapinta.co/2025/09/22/m...
We had a paper on ideal participants for social media political discussions in #dis2025. While it is a bit late to advertise that paper, I did write a short post about the paper to our research group's substack: sociallycompute.substack.com/p/what-makes...
What makes an ideal participant of social media political discussions?
One only needs to log in to services such as X or BlueSky to see that one prominent way of using social media is to discuss politics with peers.
sociallycompute.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We had a paper on ideal participants for social media political discussions in #dis2025. While it is a bit late to advertise that paper, I did write a short post about the paper to our research group's substack: sociallycompute.substack.com/p/what-makes...
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Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
October 18, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
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DL just around the corner! Apply by May 15 if you're interested in advancing research on theory translation and games
Is your PhD research on game design, game production, HCI, or design theory? I've got three 2-year postdoc positions in my ERC StG project to investigate what makes theory useful and usable in game design / interaction design.
Reposts much appreciated. Thx!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Reposts much appreciated. Thx!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Postdoc positions in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen
The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Postdoc position in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen
candidate.hr-manager.net
May 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
DL just around the corner! Apply by May 15 if you're interested in advancing research on theory translation and games
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Time to wipe your Soundcloud, y'all. Anything on there can be used for AI training per the new Terms and Conditions.
ok then... deleted all our songs that we uploaded to Soundcloud and now closing account:
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
(open the link and search for the word "train")
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
(open the link and search for the word "train")
Terms of Use - Listen to music
soundcloud.com
May 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Time to wipe your Soundcloud, y'all. Anything on there can be used for AI training per the new Terms and Conditions.
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CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...
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journals.sagepub.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
CFP ‘Authoritarianism in the Digital Age’ for SI of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Seeking commentaries (<2,000 words) that reflect on role of digital tech in building & challenging authoritarian rule. Abstracts May 16. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...
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Feminists’ attitudes towards men – Six studies, in the most systematic examination yet of feminists’ actual and perceived attitudes toward men, find that feminists’ attitudes toward men are broadly positive and broadly similar to other people’s attitudes toward men.
Findings:
1/4
Findings:
1/4
April 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Feminists’ attitudes towards men – Six studies, in the most systematic examination yet of feminists’ actual and perceived attitudes toward men, find that feminists’ attitudes toward men are broadly positive and broadly similar to other people’s attitudes toward men.
Findings:
1/4
Findings:
1/4
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What a nightmare. Credit to Deezer for going public about the extent of the problem.
Deezer says ~18% of songs uploaded to the service are AI-generated; 20K AI-generated songs are uploaded daily, nearly twice the number reported four months ago (Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
April 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What a nightmare. Credit to Deezer for going public about the extent of the problem.
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What do creators do when they feel that social media platforms aren’t treating them fairly? Our study of a controversy about racism and bias on YouTube, out now #openaccess in @policyr.bsky.social, offers a new answer: they participate in aspirational platform governance doi.org/10.14763/202...
April 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
What do creators do when they feel that social media platforms aren’t treating them fairly? Our study of a controversy about racism and bias on YouTube, out now #openaccess in @policyr.bsky.social, offers a new answer: they participate in aspirational platform governance doi.org/10.14763/202...
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🔥CFP HOT OFF THE PRESS!🔥 I'm really excited to be editing this special issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI with @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and Daphne Idiz for AI & Society. Abstract submission deadline 30th June, get in touch with questions!
MORE INFO: link.springer.com/journal/146/...
MORE INFO: link.springer.com/journal/146/...
April 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🔥CFP HOT OFF THE PRESS!🔥 I'm really excited to be editing this special issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI with @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and Daphne Idiz for AI & Society. Abstract submission deadline 30th June, get in touch with questions!
MORE INFO: link.springer.com/journal/146/...
MORE INFO: link.springer.com/journal/146/...
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Disney's Action Game Featuring Disney's Hercules
April 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Disney's Action Game Featuring Disney's Hercules
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Interested content creators? Gossip about YouTube's algorithm? Academic articles with unnecessary long titles?
"Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit - John R. Gallagher, Antonia Pecoraro Hernandez, 2025
This paper examines how aspirational content creators (ACCs) on the r/NewTubers subreddit forum understand and discuss YouTube’s algorithm. This study employs t...
journals.sagepub.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Interested content creators? Gossip about YouTube's algorithm? Academic articles with unnecessary long titles?
"Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I've had a review experience where the manuscript contained multiple references with the broad subject area kind of correct, but the studies and their results were still way too far away from the claims. Maybe this explains what was going on in there.
This was chatgpt 4-o
Other models would bring back refs that didn't exist as of old, even with reasoning and search turned on. 4-o gave the real-but-non-supporting refs.
In my experience reviewers often don't check references even for key claims. Nasty combination.
Other models would bring back refs that didn't exist as of old, even with reasoning and search turned on. 4-o gave the real-but-non-supporting refs.
In my experience reviewers often don't check references even for key claims. Nasty combination.
April 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I've had a review experience where the manuscript contained multiple references with the broad subject area kind of correct, but the studies and their results were still way too far away from the claims. Maybe this explains what was going on in there.
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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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~ New publications on datafication and insurance ~
I am happy to share two recently published articles I’ve been working on, both exploring the implementation of digital technologies and data in insurance, with a particular focus on the use of self-tracking technologies.
(A thread)
I am happy to share two recently published articles I’ve been working on, both exploring the implementation of digital technologies and data in insurance, with a particular focus on the use of self-tracking technologies.
(A thread)
March 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
~ New publications on datafication and insurance ~
I am happy to share two recently published articles I’ve been working on, both exploring the implementation of digital technologies and data in insurance, with a particular focus on the use of self-tracking technologies.
(A thread)
I am happy to share two recently published articles I’ve been working on, both exploring the implementation of digital technologies and data in insurance, with a particular focus on the use of self-tracking technologies.
(A thread)
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My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
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Is your PhD research on game design, game production, HCI, or design theory? I've got three 2-year postdoc positions in my ERC StG project to investigate what makes theory useful and usable in game design / interaction design.
Reposts much appreciated. Thx!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Reposts much appreciated. Thx!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Postdoc positions in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen
The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Postdoc position in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen
candidate.hr-manager.net
March 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Is your PhD research on game design, game production, HCI, or design theory? I've got three 2-year postdoc positions in my ERC StG project to investigate what makes theory useful and usable in game design / interaction design.
Reposts much appreciated. Thx!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Reposts much appreciated. Thx!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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This paper has 14 citations in >5 years, yet it's one of the most sophisticated papers I've read in HCI on the complexities of supporting agency.
Apprise: Supporting the Critical-Agency of Victims of Human Trafficking in Thailand
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Apprise: Supporting the Critical-Agency of Victims of Human Trafficking in Thailand
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Apprise | Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
dl.acm.org
March 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This paper has 14 citations in >5 years, yet it's one of the most sophisticated papers I've read in HCI on the complexities of supporting agency.
Apprise: Supporting the Critical-Agency of Victims of Human Trafficking in Thailand
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Apprise: Supporting the Critical-Agency of Victims of Human Trafficking in Thailand
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...