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Published work and public preprints since 2019, when the lab started at Lehigh. Earlier work done elsewhere is not listed.

Journal articles

2025
Independently testing prosocial interventions: methods and recommendations from 31 researchers
Grüning, Kamin, Saltz, Acosta, DiFranzo, Goldberg, Leavitt, Menczer, Musgrave, Wang & Wojcieszak · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1550(1), 108–121
2025
Young people are willing to intervene against rape myths online: a simulated social media experiment
Nicolla, McKenzie, Lazard, DiFranzo, Aghajari, Mao & Dasgupta · Journal of Adolescent Health 76(5), 839–846
2025
Sharing anti-vaping social media messages
Lazard, DiFranzo, Nicolla, Aghajari, Pulido, Mao, Vereen & Dasgupta · Journal of Adolescent Health 77(2), 253–261
2024
Social Media Co-pilot: designing a chatbot with teens and educators to combat cyberbullying
Zou, Yang, DiFranzo, Chen, Hui & Bazarova · International Journal of Child–Computer Interaction 41, 100680
2024
Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval?
Zhao, Bazarova, DiFranzo, Hui, Kizilcec & Margolin · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 29(1), zmad046
2023
Exposure and reactions to cancer treatment misinformation and advice: survey study
Lazard, Nicolla, Vereen, Pendleton, Charlot, Tan, DiFranzo, Pulido & Dasgupta · JMIR Cancer 9, e43749
2023
Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships
Hohenstein, Kizilcec, DiFranzo, Aghajari, Mieczkowski, Levy, Naaman, Hancock & Jung · Scientific Reports 13(1), 5487
2023
The impact of what others do, approve of, and expect you to do: an in-depth analysis of social norms and self-disclosure on social media
Masur, Bazarova & DiFranzo · Social Media + Society 9(1)
2022
Shall AI moderators be made visible? Perception of accountability and trust in moderation systems on social media platforms
Ozanne, Bhandari, Bazarova & DiFranzo · Big Data & Society 9(2)
2021
Do you care who flagged this post? Effects of moderator visibility on bystander behavior
Bhandari, Ozanne, Bazarova & DiFranzo · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 26(5), 284–300
2021
Behavioral contagion on social media: effects of social norms, design interventions, and critical media literacy on self-disclosure
Masur, DiFranzo & Bazarova · PLOS ONE 16(7), e0254670
2020
Robot-assisted tower construction: a method to study the impact of a robot’s allocation behavior on interpersonal dynamics and collaboration in groups
Jung, DiFranzo, Shen, Stoll, Claure & Lawrence · ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction 10(1)

Conference papers

2026
Who gets credit? Operationalizing AI disclosure as epistemic coordination in human–AI teams
Shi & DiFranzo · CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts (Late-Breaking Work)
2026
Outer Limits: an experimental approach to controlled content manipulation within the Reddit interface
Mao, Shi, Jia, Unguryan, Baumer & DiFranzo · CSS 2026, Santa Fe · camera-ready October 2026
arXiv
2026
Exploring COVID-19 framing across diverse platforms
Shi, Aghajari, DiFranzo, Jia & Baumer · ICWSM 2026, 20(1), 2149–2164
2026
Designing for safety in sensitive online spaces: the role of pseudonymity and verification friction
Gallagher, Shi & DiFranzo · ACM Web Science 2026, 381–391
2026
Artful reconfiguration: decoupling novelty and design in a computer-saturated world
Steup, Chigozie-Okwum, Gavade & Baumer · PACM HCI
2026
Reverse engineering as a component of digital ethnography: studying platformic management on Honor
Nam & Steup · CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts
2025
SocialSim: an open source platform for conducting behavioral intervention research on social media
Agha, Martinez, Ali, DiFranzo & Wisniewski · CSCW 2025 Companion, 528–531
2025
Unpacking the dilemma: the dual impact of AI instructors’ social presence on learners’ perceived learning and satisfaction
Chen & DiFranzo · ACM Web Science 2025, 22–31
2025
The fears, the hopes, the oscillations: a critical analysis of tech startups targeting autism
Wang, Seetharaman, Steup, Su & Ringland · ASSETS 2025
2025
Exploring resistance and other oppositional responses to AI
Baumer, Cha, Khovanskaya, Steup, Vertesi & Wong · CSCW 2025 Companion
2025
A relationship-centered perspective on home care work
Steup & Jung · PACM HCI 9(7), 1–23
2024
Investigating the mechanisms by which prevalent online community behaviors influence responses to misinformation
Aghajari, Baumer, Lazard, Dasgupta, Wang & DiFranzo · CHI 2024
2024
Tricky vs. transparent: toward an ecologically valid and safe approach for evaluating online safety nudges for teens
Agha, Park, Wan, Ali, Wang, DiFranzo, Badillo-Urquiola & Wisniewski · CHI 2024
2024
Exploring saliency bias in manipulation detection
Krinsky, Tang, Moreira & Bharati · IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024), 3257–3263
Paper
2023
A containerization framework for bioinformatics software to advance scalability, portability, and maintainability
Tam, Chua, Gallagher, Omene, Okun, DiFranzo & Chen · ACM-BCB 2023
2023
Methodological middle spaces: addressing the need for methodological innovation in experimental studies of AI-mediated communication
Aghajari, Baumer, Hohenstein, Jung & DiFranzo · PACM HCI 7(CSCW1)
2023
Reviewing interventions to address misinformation: the need to expand our vision beyond an individualistic focus
Aghajari, Baumer & DiFranzo · PACM HCI 7(CSCW1)
2023
What’s the norm around here? Individuals’ responses can mitigate the effects of misinformation prevalence
Aghajari, Baumer & DiFranzo · CHI 2023, Hamburg
2020
“I just shared your responses”: extending communication privacy management theory to interactions with conversational agents
Sannon, Stoll, DiFranzo, Jung & Bazarova · PACM HCI 4(GROUP)
2019
Accountability and empathy by design: encouraging bystander intervention to cyberbullying on social media
Taylor, DiFranzo, Choi, Sannon & Bazarova · PACM HCI 3(CSCW)
2019
Social Media TestDrive: real-world social media education for the next generation
DiFranzo, Choi, Purington, Taft, Whitlock & Bazarova · CHI 2019, Glasgow

Workshop papers, posters & extended abstracts

2026
Pathway Lab: a design probe for redirecting adolescent peer conflict before it becomes bullying
Shi & DiFranzo · CSCW 2026 Companion (Posters) · conditionally accepted
2026
ClassPulse: a bidirectional AI-supported programming homework platform for teaching signals and student learning support
Shi & DiFranzo · AIED 2026 Late-Breaking Work, 282–288
2026
Human control is the anchor, not the answer: early divergence of oversight in agentic AI communities
Shi & DiFranzo · CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Agent Collaboration
arXiv
2026
Alignment in time: peak-aware orchestration for long-horizon agentic systems
Shi & DiFranzo · CHI 2026 AutomationXP Workshop
arXiv
2026
The fluency trap: culture-aware governance for multilingual LLM tutors
Shi & DiFranzo · CATS 2026 Workshop @ AIED
2026
Strategic missingness in AI help-seeking traces for programming education
Shi & DiFranzo · CSEDM 2026 Workshop @ AIED
2026
When learning signals become safety signals: a bounded-confidentiality framework for educational AI agents
Shi & DiFranzo · IRAISE 2026 Workshop, PMLR, 123–128
2025
Building trust in multilingual large language models for cross-cultural collaboration
Shi & DiFranzo · HCII 2025 Workshop on Generative AI for Collaborative Experiences

Preprints

2026
Culturally-grounded governance for multilingual language models
Shi & DiFranzo · arXiv:2602.00497
arXiv
2026
When visibility outpaces verification
Shi & DiFranzo · arXiv:2602.11412
arXiv
2026
When readability and source retention diverge: an evaluability gap in AI translation
Mao, Shi, Jia, Wegrzyn & DiFranzo · arXiv:2608.19083
arXiv