Andrea Forte

Projects

Threat Intelligence for Targets of Coordinated Harassment

In this NSF-funded project (2020-2024), we use a comprehensive set of technical and human-centered methods to advance our understanding of coordinated harassment threats and mitigation techniques.

with Rachel Greenstadt (PI) and Damon McCoy at New York University (co-PI), Jordyn Young and Kejsi Take (PhD students).

Measuring the Value of Anonymity Online

theanonymityproject.org

In this NSF-funded project (2017-2021), we are looking at why and how people seek anonymity online, why and how internet infrastructure supports it, and finding ways to assess the value of anonymous online participation.

with Rachel Greenstadt at NYU (PI), Mako Hill at University of Washington (co-PI), Kaylea Champion, Bao Chao Tran Phi (PhD students)

past teammembers: Nora McDonald (PhD student), Erica Racine (PhD student), Stephanie Bankes, Joseph Zhang

Algorithms and Data Privacy Styles

In this NSF-funded project (2018-2021), we are working to identify different approaches to managing personal data in a data-driven society.

with Eric Baumer at Lehigh University (PI), Houda El Mimouni, Erica Racine, and Patrick Skeba (PhD students).

Designing an Information Savvy Society

In this NSF CAREER award-funded project (2013-2018), my student collaborators and I studied how people share and create information and judge its value and creibility in a variety of contexts.

past teammembers: Heather Willever-Farr and Nazanin Andalibi (PhD students), Gabrielle Frost, Minh Le, and Tim Moesgen (undergraduate researchers).

openHTML

openhtml.org

In this NSF-supported design-based research project (2011-2012; 2013-2018), our team investigated the impact of beginning web development experiences on learners' understandings of Web technologies, infrastructure, and computational concepts.

past teammembers: Brian Dorn, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Erin Knight and Doug Belshaw, Mozilla Foundation; Michael Wagner, Drexel (Co-PIs); Tom Park (post doc) and Meen Chul Kim (PhD student).

past teammembers: Susan Wiedenbeck (Co-PI), Swathi Jagannath (masters student), Ankur Saxena, Sukrit Chhabra, and Brian Lee (undergraduate researchers)

ExCITe Center

drexel.edu/excite

Drexel has established a multi-institutional center to spearhead research and re-invent education at the nexus of science, technology, and the arts: the Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center, led by Drexel University with several regional partners.

Youth and Social Search

youthonline.ischool.drexel.edu/

From 2011-2014, this IMLS-funded project team investigated the social search habits of high school students, with emphasis on how youth interact on social network sites to ask and answer questions of their peers and others.

past teammembers: Denise Agosto (PI), Rachel Magee, Michelle Purcell, Robin Naughton, Michael Dickard (PhD students)

School and Public Library Social Media Practice and Policy, Co-PI

With IMLS support from 2011-2014, we conducted a national survey of public and school libraries about their use of and policies on social technologies to support library services to youth.

past teammembers: Denise Agosto (PI), Rachel Magee (PhD student), and Michelle Purcell (PhD student).

past teammembers: Robin Naughton (graduated PhD Student), Michael Dickard (PhD student)

Papers, etc.

Shusas, Erica, Patrick Skeba, Eric Baumer, and Andrea Forte. (2023) Accounting for Privacy Pluralism: Lessons and Strategies from Community-Based Privacy Groups. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023).

Sannon, Shruti, Jordyn Young, Erica Shusas, and Andrea Forte. (2023) Disability Activism on Social Media: Sociotechnical Challenges in the Pursuit of Visibility. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023).

McDonald, Nora, Rachel Greenstadt, and Andrea Forte. (2023) Intersectional Thinking about PETs: A Study of Library Privacy. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

El mimouni, Houda, Erica Shusas, Patrick Skeba, Eric Baumer, and Andrea Forte. (2023) What Makes a Technology Privacy Enhancing Laypersons’ and Experts’ Descriptions, Uses, and Perceptions of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Proceedings of iConference 2023, Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Sannon, Shruti and Andrea Forte. (2022). Privacy Research with Marginalized Groups: What We Know, What’s Needed, and What’s Next. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (PACM: HCI). CSCW.
* honorable mention *

(pdf) Take, Kejsi, Kevin Gallagher, Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, and Rachel Greenstadt. (2022) It Feels Like Whack-a-mole": User Experiences of Data Removal from People Search Websites. Proceedings of the Symposium on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies. (PoPETS).

(pdf) Houda Elmimouni, Andrea Forte, and Jonathan Morgan. (2022) Why People Trust Wikipedia Articles: Credibility Assessment Strategies Used by Readers. Proceeding of OpenSym 2022.
* distinguished paper award *

McDonald, Nora, and Andrea Forte. (2021) Powerful Privacy Norms in Social Network Discourse. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (PACM: HCI). CSCW.

Doerfler, Periwinkle, Andrea Forte, Emiliano De Cristofaro. Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn, and Damon McCoy. (2021) “I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job”: Internet-Facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (PACM: HCI). CSCW.

(preprint) Chau Tran, Kaylea Champion, Andrea Forte, Benjamin Mako Hill, Rachel Greenstadt. (2020) Are anonymity-seekers just like everybody else? An analysis of contributions to Wikipedia from Tor. IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy. (Dataset)

McDonald, Nora and Andrea Forte. (2020) The Politics of Privacy Theories: Moving from Norms to Vulnerabilities. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Hawaii, USA.
* honorable mention *

McDonald, Nora, Sarita Schoenebeck, and Andrea Forte. (2019) Reliability and Inter-rater Reliability in Qualitative Research: Norms and Guidelines for CSCW and HCI Practice. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (PACM: HCI). CSCW. * honorable mention *

Champion, Kaylea, Nora McDonald, Stephanie Bankes, Joseph Zhang, Rachel Greenstadt, Andrea Forte, and Benjamin Mako Hill. (2019) A Forensic Qualitative Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Anonymity-Seeking Users. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (PACM: HCI). CSCW.

(pdf) McDonald, Nora, Benjamin Mako Hill, Rachel Greenstadt, and Andrea Forte. (2019) Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Service Providers. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Glasgow, UK.

(pdf) Kim, Meen Chul, Ruixue Liu, Thomas Park, and Andrea Forte. (2019) Understanding Learning Curves and Trajectories in CSS Layout. Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19). Minneapolis, USA.

Andalibi, Nazanin and Andrea Forte. (2018) Responding to Sensitive Disclosures on Social Media: A Decision Making Framework. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).

Nazanin Andalibi, Margaret Morris, and Andrea Forte. (2018) Testing Waters, Sending Clues: Indirect Disclosures of Socially Stigmatized Experiences on Social Media. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW, 2018.

Nazanin Andalibi, Oliver L. Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, Andrea Forte. (2018) Social Support, Reciprocity, and Anonymity in Responses to Sexual Abuse Disclosures on Social Media ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2018.

Nazanin Andalibi and Andrea Forte. (2018) Announcing Pregnancy Loss on Facebook: A Decision-Making Framework for Stigmatized Disclosures on Identified Social Network Sites Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2018, Montreal, Canada.

Andrea Forte, Nazanin Andalibi, Tim Gorichanaz, Meen Chul Kim, Thomas Park, Aaron Halfaker. (2018) Information Fortification: An Online Citation Behavior Proceedings of ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (Group) Sanibel Island, FL, USA.

Andrea Forte, Nazanin Andalibi, Rachel Greenstadt. (2017) Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Tor Users and Wikipedians Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) Portland, OR, USA. * honorable mention *

Nazanin Andalibi, Pinar Ozturk, Andrea Forte. (2017) Sensitive Self-disclosures, Responses, and Social Support on Instagram: the Case of #Depression Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) Portland, OR, USA. * honorable mention *

Magee, Rachel, Denise Agosto, Andrea Forte. (2017) Four Factors that Regulate Teen Technology Use in Everyday Life. Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) Portland, OR, USA.

Forte, Andrea. (2017) Wikis and Wikipedia. In SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning. Kylie Peppler, Ed. New York: Sage.

Andrea Forte, Denise Agosto, Michael Dickard, Rachel Magee. (2016) The Strength of Awkward Ties: Online Interactions between High School Students and Adults Proceedings of GROUP (ACM Conference on Groupwork) Sanibel Island, Fl.

Nazanin Andalibi, Oliver L. Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, Andrea Forte (2016). Understanding Social Media Disclosures of Sexual Abuse Through the Lenses of Support Seeking and Anonymity
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

(pdf) Park, Thomas, Meen Chul Kim, Andrea Forte. (2016). Reading Hierarchies in Code: Assessment of a Basic Computational Skill Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE). Arequipa, Peru.

Kim, Meen Chul, Thomas Park, Andrea Forte. (2016). A Constructionist Toolkit for Learning Elementary Web Development at Scale. Work in Progress. Proceedings of ACM Learning at Scale.

(pdf) Denise E. Agosto, Rachel Magee, Michael Dickard, and Andrea Forte. (2016). Teens, Technology, and Libraries: An Uncertain Relationship. The Library Quarterly: Information, Communication, Policy. vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 248-269.

(open access) Forte, Andrea (2015). The new information literate: Open collaboration and information production in schools International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, pp. 1-17.

Park, Tom, Brian Dorn and Andrea Forte. (2015). An Analysis of HTML and CSS Syntax Errors in a Web Development Course. ACM Transactions on Computing Education.

More…

(ACM authorizer) Andalibi, Nazanin, Pinar Ozturk, and Andrea Forte (2015). Depression-related imagery on Instagram. Poster Abstract. Companion to Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Forte, Andrea, Nazanin Andalibi, Thomas Park, Heather Willever-Farr (2014). Designing Information Savvy Societies: An Introduction to Assessability. Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'14), Toronto, Canada.

(pdf) Forte, Andrea, Michael Dickard, Rachel Magee, and Denise Agosto (2014). What Do Teens Ask Their Online Social Networks? Social Search Practices among High School Students. Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Baltimore, MD, USA. * best paper honorable mention *

(pdf) Willever-Farr, Heather and Andrea Forte (2014). Family Matters: Control and Conflict in Online Family History Production. Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Baltimore, MD, USA.

(pdf) Park, Thomas, Ankur Saxena, Swathi Jagannath, Susan Wiedenbeck, and Andrea Forte (2013). Towards a Taxonomy of Errors in HTML and CSS. Proceedings of the International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER). San Diego, CA. pp.75-82.

(pdf) - Zarro, Mike, Catherine Hall and Andrea Forte (2013) Wedding Dresses and Wanted Criminals: Pinterest.com as an Infrastructure for Repository Building. Proceedings of AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) Boston, MA. pp. 650-658. (A reference has been corrected in this online version.)

(ACM authorizer) Park, Thomas, Swathi Jagannath, Ankur Saxena, Susan Wiedenbeck and Andrea Forte (2013) openHTML: Designing a Transitional Web Editor for Novices. Poster. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

(pdf - preprint) Forte, Andrea and Cliff Lampe. (2013). Defining, Understanding and Supporting Open Collaboration: Lessons from the Literature. American Behavioral Scientist 57(5): 535-547 (browse full issue).

(pdf) Wyche, Susan P., Andrea Forte and Sarita Y. Schoenebeck. (2013). Hustling Online: Understanding Consolidated Facebook Use in an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'13), Paris, France. pp. 2823-2832. * best paper honorable mention *

(pdf) Wyche, Susan, Sarita Schoenebeck and Andrea Forte (2013). "Facebook is a Luxury": An Exploratory Study of Social Media Use in Rural Kenya. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), San Antonio, TX, 2013. pp. 33-44

(pdf) Forte, Andrea, Denise Agosto, Michael Dickard and Rachel Magee. (2013). Teenagers' Online Question Asking and Answering Behavior. Position Paper. Workshop on Social Media Question Asking. CSCW 2013 San Antonio, TX.

(pdf) Forte, Andrea and Thomas Park. (2012). How People Assess Cooperatively Authored Information Resources. Poster. Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '12), Linz, Austria.

(pdf) Forte, Andrea, Melissa Humphreys and Thomas Park. (2012). Grassroots professional development: How teachers use Twitter. Proceedings of the AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). Dublin, Ireland. * best paper nomination *

(pdf) Magee, Rachel M., Robin Naughton, Patri O'Gan, Andrea Forte, and Denise E. Agosto (2012). Social Media Practices and Support in U.S. Public Libraries and School Library Media Centers. Poster. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

(pdf) - Willever-Farr, Heather, Andrea Forte and Lisl Zach. (2012). Cashing in on family: The influence of private companies on online family history construction. Position Paper. Workshop: Heritage Matters: Designing for Current and Future Values Through Digital and Social Technologies. CHI 2012 Austin. TX.

(pdf) Forte, Andrea, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zhu, Amy Bruckman, Robert Kraut. (2012). Coordination and beyond: Social functions of groups in open content production. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2012, Seattle, WA. pp. 417-426.

(pdf) Forte, Andrea (panel organizer), Judd Antin, Shaowen Bardzell, Leigh Honeywell, John Riedl, Sarah Stierch. (2012). Some of all Human Knowledge: Gender and participation in peer production. Panel. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2012, Seattle, WA. pp. 417-426.

(pdf) Willever-Farr, Heather, Lisl Zach, and Andrea Forte. (2012). Tell Me About My Family: A Study of Cooperative Research on Ancestry.com. Proceedings of the iConference, 2012. Toronto, Canada. pp. 303-310.

(email me) - Agosto, D. E., Forte, A., & Magee, R. (2012). Cyberbullying and teens: What YA librarians can do to help. Young Adult Library Services, 10(1): 38-43.

(email me)- Lampe, Cliff, Paul Resnick, Andrea Forte, Sarita Yardi, Dana Rotman, Todd Marshall, Wayne Lutters. (2010) Educational priorities for technology-mediated social participation. IEEE Computer. November, 2010, pp.1-8.

(pdf)- Berland, Leema and Andrea Forte. (2010). When Students Speak, Who Listens? Constructing Audience in Classroom Argumentation . Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. pp 428-435.

(pdf)- - Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2009). Writing, Citing, and Participatory Media: Wikis as Learning Environments in the High School Classroom. International Journal of Learning and Media. 1(4). pp 23-44.

(pdf, preprint version) - Forte, Andrea, Vanessa Larco and Amy Bruckman. (2009) Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance. Journal of Management Information Systems. 26(1) pp 49-72.

Shorter Conference Version:
(pdf) - Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2008). Scaling consensus: increasing decentralization in Wikipedia governance. Proceedings of Hawaiian International Conference of Systems Sciences (HICSS). (online)

(pdf) - Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2008). Information Literacy in the Age of Wikipedia. In Symposium on Learning and Research in the Web 2 Era: Opportunities for Research (Organized by James Slotta) Proceedings of International Conference on the Learning Sciences.

(pdf) - Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2007). Constructing text: wiki as a toolkit for (collaborative?) learning. Proceedings of WikiSym 2007. (Montreal, Canada.) pp 31-42.

(email me) - Bruckman, Amy, Alisa Bandlow and Andrea Forte. (2007). HCI for Kids. In The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications. 2nd Ed. Edited by Julie Jacko and Andrew Sears. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

(pdf) - Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. (2006). Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on Facebook. Poster/Extended Abstract, CSCW 2006.

(pdf) - Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2006) From Wikipedia to the classroom: exploring online publication and learning. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Vol 1. Bloomington, IN, pp. 182-188.

(pdf) - Bryant, Susan, Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman. (2005). Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia. Proceedings of GROUP International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, FL, pp. 1-10.

(pdf) - Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2005). Why do people write for Wikipedia? Incentives to contribute to open-content publishing. Position Paper. GROUP 05 workshop: Sustaining community: The role and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems. Sanibel Island, FL.

(pdf) - Forte, Andrea and Mark Guzdial. (2005). Motivation and non-majors in computer science: identifying discrete audiences for introductory courses. IEEE Transactions on Education. (48)2: 248-253.

(pdf) - Guzdial, Mark and Andrea Forte. (2005). Design process for a non-majors computing course. Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 361-365.

(pdf) - Forte, Andrea and Mark Guzdial. (2004). Computers for communication, not calculation: media as a motivation and context for learning. Proceedings of the Hawaiian International Conference of Systems Sciences, Big Island, HI.

(pdf) - Forte,Andrea. (2003). Programming for communication: overcoming motivational barriers to computation for all. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposia on Human-Centered Computing Languages and Environments, Auckland, NZ.

PhD Students

Current:
Jordyn Young
Erica Racine

Graduated:
Meen Chul Kim
Houda El Mimouni
Nora McDonald
Nazanin Andalibi
Rachel Magee
Heather Willever-Farr
Thomas Park

Past Post Docs

Shruti Sannon
Thomas Park

Select Events and Travel

Oct 2023, CSCW, Minneapolis, MN

March 2023, iConference, Barcelona, Spain

Feb 2023, University of Nebraska, Omaha

Community Engagement

Web Workshops: As part of the openHTML project, our team developed a web building workshop for young people in West Philly neighborhoods of Powelton and Mantua.