Conference Presentations

Meryl Alper

• Alper, M. (2025, June). Disability and the ethical disruption of communication technologies. International Communication Association Annual Conference, Theme Session, Denver, CO. (Remote presentation)
• Alper, M., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., Guberman, J., & Feinberg, S. (2023, November). TikTok as algorithmically mediated biographical illumination: Self-discovery and autism diagnosis on #autisktok. National Communication Association Annual Conference, Human Communication and Technology Division, National Harbor, MD.
• Alper, M., Rodgers, R., Rauchberg, J., Simpson, E., & Harrison, K. (2025, June). “actually an ED and not just a quirky aspect of autism”: TikTok as forum and mediator of autistic food issues and eating disorders. International Communication Association Annual Conference, Health Communication Division, Denver, CO.

Rahul Bharagava 

• Bhargava, R. & Matuk, C. (Feb 2025). Data Sculptures – opening new doors to data literacy through creative arts. Workshop at the Data Science Education K-12: Research to Practice conference.
• Bhargava, R. (Apr 2025). AI for (Contested) Good. Panel speaker at NULab “Social Justice” Conference. Boston, MA.
• Bhargava, R. (Mar 2025). Tools, tips and tough lessons for teaching data journalism. Panel speaker at National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) Annual Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
• Bhargava, Rahul. Data Beyond the Visual. University of Nebraska Data Storytelling Workshop. Lincoln, NE. Jan 2025.
• Bhargava, Rahul. Fight the Bar Chart. VizUM. Miami, FL. Nov 2024.

Zorana Matić

• Matić, Z. & Machry, H. (2024, June 21). Designing for pandemic preparedness: What we learned from Ebola and COVID-19 outbreaks about flexibility and human-centered design. EDRA55, Portland, OR.
• Matić, Z. (2025, March 28). What if AI were used as a tool for urban justice, memory, and cultural resilience? In G. Halegoua (Chair), Biased mobilities and hybrid spaces. Panel at Media in Motion, Center for Transformative Media, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
• Matić, Z., Lee, M., Song, L., & Guo, E. (2025, April 18). Gathering spaces to gentrified places: Development and threat to third places in Boston’s Chinatown. Asian American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
• Matić, Z., Song, L., & Messier, R. (2024, June 20). Reclaiming green open spaces in Boston Chinatown. EDRA55, Portland, OR.

Eileen McGivney 

• Kleinman, E., Jahani, R., McGivney, E., Cooper, S. & Harteveld, C. (2025). From Locked Rooms to Open Minds: Escape Room Best Practices to Enhance Reflection in Extended Reality Learning Environments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025. 26 April – 1 May, 2025. Yokohama, Japan.
• McGivney, E., Varma, M.*, & Pimentel, D. (2025). Work in Progress—The Impact of Guidance on Learning and Agency in a Virtual Reality Game for STEM Education. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference. Immersive Learning Research Network. [Anticipated Publication Fall 2025]
• Zhu, T.*, Cheerman, H. Cheng, M., Kiami, S., Chukoskie, L., & McGivney, E. (2025). Designing VR Simulation System for Clinical Communication Training with LLMs-Based Embodied Conversational Agents. Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Yokohama, Japan: CHI 2025.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719693

Briana Trifiro 

• Danielson, M., Durkin, P., Harris, S., Kim, A., Kothari, N., & Trifiro, B. The Relation of Instagram to Body Dissatisfaction and Desire to Undergo Cosmetic Changes. Manuscript presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Southeast Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2025.
• Danielson, M., Durkin, P., Harris, S., Kim, A., Kothari, N., & Trifiro, B. The Relationship Between Instagram Use, Body Dissatisfaction, and The Desire to Undergo Cosmetic Changes. Manuscript presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, CA, August 2025.
• Trifiro, B. “Sometimes Banning Abortion Doesn’t Mean Fewer Abortions or Fewer Babies Die – It Just Means More Women Die”: A Thematic Analysis of Roe v. Wade Partisan Cable News Coverage. Manuscript presented to the Association of Internet Researchers, October 2025. 
• Trifiro, B. Who Does What to Whom: Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Elements in Cable News. Manuscript presented to the American Political Science Association, Vancouver, Canada, September 2025.