Social Media

Part 1 — In the beginning. — Ever since Elon Musk became the CEO of Twitter the platform has drastically changed and according to many users from marginalised groups, that change has been for the worst. One indication of this was the 500% increase in uses of the word n***er soon after Musk was announced as the…

This post summarizes a research paper that explored new designs for findable ad settings on platforms and studied their impact on users’ behavior and sentiment in the context of Facebook. This paper was accepted to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, a premier international conference of…

What's KRAKEN? By Mitchelle Oforah March 25, 2023 Coronavirus (Coronam is a Latin term for "crown," given to the virus due to its spike glycoprotein on its outer genome) is an RNA virus that causes mild to severe respiratory infections in both animals and humans. Two distinct types of coronaviruses…

I suppose that if I’m going to center the majority of my entries around topics relating to disability, I should disclose some level of my own experience with it. While, obviously, it isn’t 100% of my identity, I find that a significant part of the enjoyment I find it writing…

If you are a creator on Medium and feel like your digital presence is in conflict with your identity, change your colours, your background image, and your fonts. Make this place your home before you try to make it a home for your readers. — Last year, when I opened my Medium profile for the first time, I chose blue to represent me and my writing. My header was plain light blue, and my profile picture — well, there was not even a profile picture. …

We as humans have always desired more and more than what we have. What triggers us to this is not exact. Sometimes it is our sense of competition and sometimes it is our desire to be accepted and appreciated by our environment that drives us to do this. …