In the Fall 2024 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working as chair of the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Teaching undergraduate technology and society
• Working on a Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project

In the Summer 2024 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Going to ICA
• Becoming chair of the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Teaching undergraduate technology and society
• Working on a Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project

In the Spring 2024 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Finishing a Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Giving this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2024, April). Interdisciplinary Insights into Fostering Student Engagement in Course Readings. AnnotatED conference.
• Giving this talk: Pearce, K. E., & Malhotra, P. (2024, June). Media trust and misinformation authentication in a low media trust environment: An exploratory study of Armenia. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Gold Coast, AU. (Global Communication & Social Change Division)

In the Winter 2024 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Teaching undergraduate technology and society
• Working on a new Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association

In the Autumn 2023 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Working on a new Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2023, October). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2023, September). Scholarly visibility. Nigeria chapter of the International Communication Association.

In the Summer 2023 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching undergraduate research methods and technology and society
• Working on a new Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Presented: Pearce, K. E. (2023, September). Determinants of engagement with misinformation in Armenia. On panel Misinformation, doubt, and distrust. Paper presented to the American Political Science Association Conference, Los Angeles.

In the Spring 2023 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Working on a new Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Presented: Pearce, K. E. (2023, May). Guardians of cultural authenticity online and offline: Azerbaijani women’s responsibilities. On panel Keeping it Real: Contested meanings of authenticity on social media. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Toronto. (Theme Division)

In the Winter 2023 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on a new Armenia and misinformation project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association — planning the conference
• Keeping my family safe

In the Fall 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association — planning the conference
• Keeping my family safe
• Recruiting new graduate students
• Published:
  • Rice, R. E., Pearce, K. E., & Calderwood, K. (2022). Wither the device divide? Changing relationships between computer or mobile device with online activities. Mobile Media and Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221142134

In the Summer 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Taking over as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Keeping my family safe
• Giving a talk here: Digital divide, culture & intersectionality. Governing Conversations Series, The Digital Interests Lab at NYU and the Yale Information Society Project.
• Participating at #ICTD2022: Coward, C., Sey, A., Pearce, K. E., Malhotra, P.; Bugre, C., & Wack, M. (2022, June). Researching misinformation in ICTD. Panel presented to the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development, Seattle.

In the Spring 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Finishing up a women in Azerbaijan project
• Starting in on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Keeping my family safe
• Published
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan. New Media & Society. http://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221097946
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). The influence of social media discussion on son preference in Azerbaijan: Reinforcing norms, bargaining with patriarchy, space for dissent. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2456-2476. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18127
  • Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2022). Facing falsehoods: Strategies for polite misinformation correction. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2303-2324. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18361
  • Pearce, K. E., & Malhotra, P. (2022). Inaccuracies and izzat: Channel affordances for the consideration of face in misinformation correction. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac004 
  • Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., Bhattacharya, A., Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., & Lee, J. (2022). Joint Media Engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: Families playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. CSCW Conference Proceedings.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3512947
• Presented:
  • Rice, R. E., Pearce, K. E., & Calderwood, K. (2022, May). Wither the device divide? Changing relationships between computer or mobile device with online activities Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Hayes, R., Humphreys, L., Ellison, N. B., Bruns, A., Pearce, K. E., Foucault Welles, B., & Lee, E. (2022, May). Panel Transforming social media scholarship: Future-forward insight on dynamic environments. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Carr, C. T., Wei, R., Kümpel, A., Ellison, N. B., Liu, B. Bazarova, N., & Pearce, K. E. (2022, May). Panel CATching up with the division: A welcome to new and early CAT members. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., Hall, N., Seet, S., Malhotra, P., Pearce, K. E., Tandoc, E., Thorson, K., Battocchio, A., & Kliger-Vilenchik, N. (2022, May). Panel Everyday misinformation and correction on private social media: Relationality, affordances, and emergent norms. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Interdivisional Division)
  • Pearce, K. E., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B., Usher, N., Saldaña, M., & Knight Steele, C. (2022, May). Panel We fucking warned you: A reminder about institutional and organizational resilience. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)
  • Perreault, G., Pearce, K. E., Bowman, N. D., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Kranstuber Horstman, H., Kingsley Westerman, C., Freiling, I., Dubois, E., Kaur, S., Dorrance Hall, E., Denes, A., Baykurt, B., Wirz, D. S., Bowe, B. J., Henrichsen, J., Friedlander, J., & Goodwin, C. (2022, May). Panel The Fulbright experience in communication. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)

In the Winter 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Dealing with the Omicron surge
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Working on a “TikTok” course for undergrads
• Keeping my family safe

In the Autumn 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• First quarter of being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Keeping my family safe
• Attending the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle
• Attending the virtual CSCW conference
• Attending the virtual AOIR conference
• Attending the National Communication Association conference in Seattle
• Published:
  • Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021). I just need to have a White Claw and play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology of Popular Media. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120211056125
  • Fox, J., Pearce, K. E., Massanari, A. L., Riles, J. M., Szulc, L., Ranjit, Y. S., Trevisian, F., Soriano, C. R. R., Vitak, J., Arora, P., Ahn, S. J., Alper, M., Gambino, A., Gonzalez, C., Lynch, T. L., Williamson, L. D., & Gonzales, A. L. (2021). Open science, closed doors? Countering marginalization through an agenda for ethical, inclusive research in Communication. Journal of Communication. http://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab029

In the Summer 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Finishing Animal Crossing and families project
• Finishing a marginality and open science project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Teaching an undergraduate research methods course
• Prepping for a new graduate course on global social media in the fall
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Starting to think about an undergraduate computer-mediated communication course
• Spending time outside

In the Spring 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Finishing replication study
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Published this: Ahn, S. J., Cripe, E. T., Foucault Welles, B., McGregor, S., Pearce, K. E., Usher, N., & Vitak, J. (2021). Academic caregivers on organizational and community resilience in academia (Fuck individual resilience). Communication, Culture, and Critique. http://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab027
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2020 April, rescheduled 2021, April). Socially mediated visibility. Penn State University, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, State College, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. UPenn Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Center for Communication & Public Policy, Evanston, IL.
• Presented this at ICA: Scott, C. R., Tracy, S., Stohl, M., Qiu, J., Cruz, J., Kang, K., Lane, J., Peterson, B., Foot, K., Albu, O., & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Panel Researching dangerous and/or difficult to access settings: Insights from communication experts in the field. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Rollins, D., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Fu, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B, & Knight Steele, C. (2021, May). Panel Caregiving and COVID: Reimagining parenting and academia for a post-pandemic world. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Facing falsehoods: Strategies and channel affordances for polite misinformation correction. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Communication & Technology Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021, May). I just need to have a White Claw and Play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Top paper, Games Studies Division). Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Game Studies Division)

In the Winter 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Pearce, K. E. (2020, April, rescheduled 2021, January). Digital activism in authoritarian societies. Politics from Below Conference, Centre for East European & International Studies, Berlin, Germany.

In the Fall 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching a new computer mediated communication graduate seminar
• Pearce, K. E., Gonzales, A. L., Foucault Welles, B. (2020). Introduction: Marginality and social media. Social Media & Society, 1-9. doi: 10.1177/2056305120930413
• Pearce, K. E. (2020). While Armenia and Azerbaijan fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, their citizens battled on social media. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog.

In the Summer 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)
• Teaching COM 303 (research methods)
• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Trying to figure out how on earth caregivers are expected to keep their jobs while also taking care of children

In the Spring 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)

In the Winter 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium

In the Fall 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium
• Gardening

In the Spring 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality
• Gardening
• Giving this talk:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2019, April). International threats. UW Cybersecurity Series, Seattle, WA.
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:
• Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2019, May). Online social support for reproductive health in Azerbaijan: A patriarchal bargaining framework. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Feminist Scholarship Division)
• Pearce, K. E. (2019, May). Amplified socially mediated visibility and power on panel Navigating power online: Self-expression, repression and survival. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Communication & Technology Division)
• Pearce, K. E., & Donohoe, D. (2019, May). Women overcoming barriers to communicating about reproductive health with social media on panel Communicating about reproductive health. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Interpersonal Communication Division)

In the Winter 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality

In the Fall 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Gardening
• Published this:

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility in gang prosecutions. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, x, x-x. doi: 10.1093/jcmc/zmy019 [link]

• Went to these workshops:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). The ethical implications of studying vulnerable populations. The 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) workshop on Exploring Ethical Tradeoffs in Social Media Research, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). When the bad actor is the state: Digitally deterring dissent. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems workshop on Understanding Bad Actors Online, Montreal, QE.

In the Spring 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 grad course on tech and ethics [syllabus]
• Running a graduate reading group on computer-mediated communication [reading list]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Lots of grad students working with empowerment as an outcome
• Gardening
• Gave these talks:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, June). Anti-social media. Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, NY.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Social media and the Armenian revolution. Armenia Tomorrow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnoLxzYqmwU (start at 59:00)
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J.  (2018, May). Socially mediated visibility: An examination of stigma management. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Carr, C. T., Vitak, J., & Hayes, R. A. (2018, May). Conceptualizing socially mediated visibility. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility and power in gang prosecutions. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Popular Communication Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Creeping toward what? Learning from 21st century authoritarian media systems on panel When authoritarianism rattles journalism’s supposed foundations. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Journalism Studies Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). The ethics of data-driven theory building in difficult research environments on panel Communication in the networked age: A discussion of theory building through data-driven research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Computational Methods Interest Group)

In the Winter 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Published this:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2018). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. International Journal of Communication. [link]

In the Fall 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 graduate course on content analysis [syllabus]
• Working on a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Hoping to begin data collection on a social movement organization
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Data access project. Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ

• Giving talks:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, September). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. The National University of Mexico, Mexico City.

Pearce, K. E. (2017, November). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. Northeastern’s NULab and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.

• Going to CESS to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, October). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Seattle WA.

• Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Gay men and trans women were suddenly rounded up in Azerbaijan. Here’s why. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Summer 2017, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
• Preparing a new graduate course on content analysis
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Theorizing communication in a digitally networked age. Penn State, State College, PA

In the Spring 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Giving a talk at Rutgers:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, March). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.

• Giving at talk at NYU/Columbia:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, April). Kompromat: What it is, where it came from, and why everyone is talking about it now. Columbia-NYU New York Russia Public Policy Seminar. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN51tgHl_uM

• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, May). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Rice, R E. (2017, May). Somewhat separate and unequal: Social networking site choice and activity differences and their capital-enhancing potential. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Rice, R. E., Treem, J., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Sivunen, A., Fox, J., & McEwan, B. (author order unimportant) (2017, May). Debating affordances: Defining and refining the contours of affordance measurement and theory. Panel presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

• Going to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, May). Overview. Paper presented to the 22nd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY.

In the Winter 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Giving at talk at the Wilson Center:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, February). Kompromat and the undermining of trust. Bridging the Gap on Cybersecurity Policy. Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. Video: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/bridging-the-gaps-cybersecurity-policy

• • Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Kompromat used to be a KGB tool in the Soviet Union. Now anyone can collect dirty data. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Fall 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social effects of technology [syllabus]
    • Teaching 1 graduate seminar on quantitative methods [syllabus]
    • Going to NCA to present:

Rice, R. E., Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Sivunen, A.,  Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, November). Organizational media affordances: Operationalization & associations with media use. Paper presented to the National Communication Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (Human Communication & Technology Division)

In the Summer of 2016, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Gardening
    • Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
    • Analyzing qualitative data collected in 2015 on risk/motivations of engagement in activism in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing a social network analysis manuscript on a thwarted protest

In the Spring 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Taught an undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Worked with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Presented at Innovate Armenia
    • Went to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Guliyev, F. (2016, April). Digital knives are still knives: The affordances of social media for a repressed opposition against an entrenched authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan on panel Opposition 2.0: Challenging authoritarianism in the 21^st century. Paper presented to the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, New York, NY.

• • • Going to ICA to be a mentor at the Doctoral Consortium and to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2016, June). What can we learn about privacy from those with zero expectation of it? on panel New communication technologies: Issues of privacy, power & control. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, June). The Affordances Test: A conceptual model for understanding affordances in communication research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J. (2016, June). Visible if you do, Visible if you don’t: How social media complicates concealment & disclosure of stigmatized political beliefs in an authoritarian setting. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Treem, J. W., Pearce, K. E., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Schrock, A., Barta, K., Ford J. S., & Shorey, S. (2016, June). Looking back to look forward: Tracing the history of affordances to develop a framework for understanding communication technology. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

In the Winter 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching an undergraduate course in social effect of technology use (COM 303) [syllabus]
    • Teaching a course in communication technology and ethics in our department’s professional masters program [syllabus]
    • Finishing revisions on a book chapter on the ethical challenges of using digital methods in difficult research environments
    • Submitting a manuscript on the impact of social media on stigmatized political beliefs in authoritarian environments
    • Submitted 2 manuscripts on affordances
    • Overseeing undergraduate research assistants conducting a literature review on honor and modesty in Islam
    • Working with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing qualitative data collected in 2015 for analysis, topic is motivations and understanding of risk with engagement in activism in authoritarian environments

In the Fall 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Keeping my family safe
• Recruiting new graduate students

In the Summer 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Taking over as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Keeping my family safe
• Giving a talk here: Digital divide, culture & intersectionality. Governing Conversations Series, The Digital Interests Lab at NYU and the Yale Information Society Project.
• Participating at #ICTD2022: Coward, C., Sey, A., Pearce, K. E., Malhotra, P.; Bugre, C., & Wack, M. (2022, June). Researching misinformation in ICTD. Panel presented to the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development, Seattle.

In the Spring 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Finishing up a women in Azerbaijan project
• Starting in on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Keeping my family safe
• Published
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan. New Media & Society. http://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221097946
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). The influence of social media discussion on son preference in Azerbaijan: Reinforcing norms, bargaining with patriarchy, space for dissent. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2456-2476. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18127
  • Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2022). Facing falsehoods: Strategies for polite misinformation correction. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2303-2324. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18361
  • Pearce, K. E., & Malhotra, P. (2022). Inaccuracies and izzat: Channel affordances for the consideration of face in misinformation correction. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac004 
  • Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., Bhattacharya, A., Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., & Lee, J. (2022). Joint Media Engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: Families playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. CSCW Conference Proceedings.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3512947
• Presented:
  • Rice, R. E., Pearce, K. E., & Calderwood, K. (2022, May). Wither the device divide? Changing relationships between computer or mobile device with online activities Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Hayes, R., Humphreys, L., Ellison, N. B., Bruns, A., Pearce, K. E., Foucault Welles, B., & Lee, E. (2022, May). Panel Transforming social media scholarship: Future-forward insight on dynamic environments. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Carr, C. T., Wei, R., Kümpel, A., Ellison, N. B., Liu, B. Bazarova, N., & Pearce, K. E. (2022, May). Panel CATching up with the division: A welcome to new and early CAT members. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., Hall, N., Seet, S., Malhotra, P., Pearce, K. E., Tandoc, E., Thorson, K., Battocchio, A., & Kliger-Vilenchik, N. (2022, May). Panel Everyday misinformation and correction on private social media: Relationality, affordances, and emergent norms. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Interdivisional Division)
  • Pearce, K. E., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B., Usher, N., Saldaña, M., & Knight Steele, C. (2022, May). Panel We fucking warned you: A reminder about institutional and organizational resilience. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)
  • Perreault, G., Pearce, K. E., Bowman, N. D., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Kranstuber Horstman, H., Kingsley Westerman, C., Freiling, I., Dubois, E., Kaur, S., Dorrance Hall, E., Denes, A., Baykurt, B., Wirz, D. S., Bowe, B. J., Henrichsen, J., Friedlander, J., & Goodwin, C. (2022, May). Panel The Fulbright experience in communication. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)

In the Winter 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Dealing with the Omicron surge
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Working on a “TikTok” course for undergrads
• Keeping my family safe

In the Autumn 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• First quarter of being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Keeping my family safe
• Attending the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle
• Attending the virtual CSCW conference
• Attending the virtual AOIR conference
• Attending the National Communication Association conference in Seattle
• Published:
  • Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021). I just need to have a White Claw and play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology of Popular Media. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120211056125
  • Fox, J., Pearce, K. E., Massanari, A. L., Riles, J. M., Szulc, L., Ranjit, Y. S., Trevisian, F., Soriano, C. R. R., Vitak, J., Arora, P., Ahn, S. J., Alper, M., Gambino, A., Gonzalez, C., Lynch, T. L., Williamson, L. D., & Gonzales, A. L. (2021). Open science, closed doors? Countering marginalization through an agenda for ethical, inclusive research in Communication. Journal of Communication. http://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab029

In the Summer 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Finishing Animal Crossing and families project
• Finishing a marginality and open science project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Teaching an undergraduate research methods course
• Prepping for a new graduate course on global social media in the fall
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Starting to think about an undergraduate computer-mediated communication course
• Spending time outside

In the Spring 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Finishing replication study
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Published this: Ahn, S. J., Cripe, E. T., Foucault Welles, B., McGregor, S., Pearce, K. E., Usher, N., & Vitak, J. (2021). Academic caregivers on organizational and community resilience in academia (Fuck individual resilience). Communication, Culture, and Critique. http://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab027
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2020 April, rescheduled 2021, April). Socially mediated visibility. Penn State University, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, State College, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. UPenn Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Center for Communication & Public Policy, Evanston, IL.
• Presented this at ICA: Scott, C. R., Tracy, S., Stohl, M., Qiu, J., Cruz, J., Kang, K., Lane, J., Peterson, B., Foot, K., Albu, O., & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Panel Researching dangerous and/or difficult to access settings: Insights from communication experts in the field. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Rollins, D., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Fu, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B, & Knight Steele, C. (2021, May). Panel Caregiving and COVID: Reimagining parenting and academia for a post-pandemic world. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Facing falsehoods: Strategies and channel affordances for polite misinformation correction. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Communication & Technology Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021, May). I just need to have a White Claw and Play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Top paper, Games Studies Division). Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Game Studies Division)

In the Winter 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Pearce, K. E. (2020, April, rescheduled 2021, January). Digital activism in authoritarian societies. Politics from Below Conference, Centre for East European & International Studies, Berlin, Germany.

In the Fall 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching a new computer mediated communication graduate seminar
• Pearce, K. E., Gonzales, A. L., Foucault Welles, B. (2020). Introduction: Marginality and social media. Social Media & Society, 1-9. doi: 10.1177/2056305120930413
• Pearce, K. E. (2020). While Armenia and Azerbaijan fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, their citizens battled on social media. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog.

In the Summer 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)
• Teaching COM 303 (research methods)
• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Trying to figure out how on earth caregivers are expected to keep their jobs while also taking care of children

In the Spring 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)

In the Winter 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium

In the Fall 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium
• Gardening

In the Spring 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality
• Gardening
• Giving this talk:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2019, April). International threats. UW Cybersecurity Series, Seattle, WA.
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:
• Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2019, May). Online social support for reproductive health in Azerbaijan: A patriarchal bargaining framework. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Feminist Scholarship Division)
• Pearce, K. E. (2019, May). Amplified socially mediated visibility and power on panel Navigating power online: Self-expression, repression and survival. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Communication & Technology Division)
• Pearce, K. E., & Donohoe, D. (2019, May). Women overcoming barriers to communicating about reproductive health with social media on panel Communicating about reproductive health. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Interpersonal Communication Division)

In the Winter 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality

In the Fall 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Gardening
• Published this:

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility in gang prosecutions. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, x, x-x. doi: 10.1093/jcmc/zmy019 [link]

• Went to these workshops:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). The ethical implications of studying vulnerable populations. The 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) workshop on Exploring Ethical Tradeoffs in Social Media Research, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). When the bad actor is the state: Digitally deterring dissent. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems workshop on Understanding Bad Actors Online, Montreal, QE.

In the Spring 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 grad course on tech and ethics [syllabus]
• Running a graduate reading group on computer-mediated communication [reading list]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Lots of grad students working with empowerment as an outcome
• Gardening
• Gave these talks:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, June). Anti-social media. Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, NY.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Social media and the Armenian revolution. Armenia Tomorrow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnoLxzYqmwU (start at 59:00)
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J.  (2018, May). Socially mediated visibility: An examination of stigma management. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Carr, C. T., Vitak, J., & Hayes, R. A. (2018, May). Conceptualizing socially mediated visibility. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility and power in gang prosecutions. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Popular Communication Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Creeping toward what? Learning from 21st century authoritarian media systems on panel When authoritarianism rattles journalism’s supposed foundations. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Journalism Studies Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). The ethics of data-driven theory building in difficult research environments on panel Communication in the networked age: A discussion of theory building through data-driven research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Computational Methods Interest Group)

In the Winter 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Published this:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2018). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. International Journal of Communication. [link]

In the Fall 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 graduate course on content analysis [syllabus]
• Working on a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Hoping to begin data collection on a social movement organization
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Data access project. Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ

• Giving talks:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, September). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. The National University of Mexico, Mexico City.

Pearce, K. E. (2017, November). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. Northeastern’s NULab and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.

• Going to CESS to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, October). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Seattle WA.

• Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Gay men and trans women were suddenly rounded up in Azerbaijan. Here’s why. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Summer 2017, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
• Preparing a new graduate course on content analysis
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Theorizing communication in a digitally networked age. Penn State, State College, PA

In the Spring 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Giving a talk at Rutgers:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, March). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.

• Giving at talk at NYU/Columbia:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, April). Kompromat: What it is, where it came from, and why everyone is talking about it now. Columbia-NYU New York Russia Public Policy Seminar. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN51tgHl_uM

• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, May). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Rice, R E. (2017, May). Somewhat separate and unequal: Social networking site choice and activity differences and their capital-enhancing potential. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Rice, R. E., Treem, J., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Sivunen, A., Fox, J., & McEwan, B. (author order unimportant) (2017, May). Debating affordances: Defining and refining the contours of affordance measurement and theory. Panel presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

• Going to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, May). Overview. Paper presented to the 22nd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY.

In the Winter 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Giving at talk at the Wilson Center:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, February). Kompromat and the undermining of trust. Bridging the Gap on Cybersecurity Policy. Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. Video: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/bridging-the-gaps-cybersecurity-policy

• • Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Kompromat used to be a KGB tool in the Soviet Union. Now anyone can collect dirty data. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Fall 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social effects of technology [syllabus]
    • Teaching 1 graduate seminar on quantitative methods [syllabus]
    • Going to NCA to present:

Rice, R. E., Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Sivunen, A.,  Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, November). Organizational media affordances: Operationalization & associations with media use. Paper presented to the National Communication Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (Human Communication & Technology Division)

In the Summer of 2016, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Gardening
    • Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
    • Analyzing qualitative data collected in 2015 on risk/motivations of engagement in activism in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing a social network analysis manuscript on a thwarted protest

In the Spring 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Taught an undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Worked with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Presented at Innovate Armenia
    • Went to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Guliyev, F. (2016, April). Digital knives are still knives: The affordances of social media for a repressed opposition against an entrenched authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan on panel Opposition 2.0: Challenging authoritarianism in the 21^st century. Paper presented to the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, New York, NY.

• • • Going to ICA to be a mentor at the Doctoral Consortium and to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2016, June). What can we learn about privacy from those with zero expectation of it? on panel New communication technologies: Issues of privacy, power & control. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, June). The Affordances Test: A conceptual model for understanding affordances in communication research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J. (2016, June). Visible if you do, Visible if you don’t: How social media complicates concealment & disclosure of stigmatized political beliefs in an authoritarian setting. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Treem, J. W., Pearce, K. E., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Schrock, A., Barta, K., Ford J. S., & Shorey, S. (2016, June). Looking back to look forward: Tracing the history of affordances to develop a framework for understanding communication technology. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

In the Winter 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching an undergraduate course in social effect of technology use (COM 303) [syllabus]
    • Teaching a course in communication technology and ethics in our department’s professional masters program [syllabus]
    • Finishing revisions on a book chapter on the ethical challenges of using digital methods in difficult research environments
    • Submitting a manuscript on the impact of social media on stigmatized political beliefs in authoritarian environments
    • Submitted 2 manuscripts on affordances
    • Overseeing undergraduate research assistants conducting a literature review on honor and modesty in Islam
    • Working with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing qualitative data collected in 2015 for analysis, topic is motivations and understanding of risk with engagement in activism in authoritarian environments

In the Summer 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Taking over as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Keeping my family safe
• Giving a talk here: Digital divide, culture & intersectionality. Governing Conversations Series, The Digital Interests Lab at NYU and the Yale Information Society Project.
• Participating at #ICTD2022: Coward, C., Sey, A., Pearce, K. E., Malhotra, P.; Bugre, C., & Wack, M. (2022, June). Researching misinformation in ICTD. Panel presented to the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development, Seattle.

In the Spring 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Finishing up a women in Azerbaijan project
• Starting in on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Keeping my family safe
• Published
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan. New Media & Society. http://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221097946
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). The influence of social media discussion on son preference in Azerbaijan: Reinforcing norms, bargaining with patriarchy, space for dissent. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2456-2476. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18127
  • Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2022). Facing falsehoods: Strategies for polite misinformation correction. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2303-2324. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18361
  • Pearce, K. E., & Malhotra, P. (2022). Inaccuracies and izzat: Channel affordances for the consideration of face in misinformation correction. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac004 
  • Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., Bhattacharya, A., Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., & Lee, J. (2022). Joint Media Engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: Families playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. CSCW Conference Proceedings.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3512947
• Presented:
  • Rice, R. E., Pearce, K. E., & Calderwood, K. (2022, May). Wither the device divide? Changing relationships between computer or mobile device with online activities Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Hayes, R., Humphreys, L., Ellison, N. B., Bruns, A., Pearce, K. E., Foucault Welles, B., & Lee, E. (2022, May). Panel Transforming social media scholarship: Future-forward insight on dynamic environments. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Carr, C. T., Wei, R., Kümpel, A., Ellison, N. B., Liu, B. Bazarova, N., & Pearce, K. E. (2022, May). Panel CATching up with the division: A welcome to new and early CAT members. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., Hall, N., Seet, S., Malhotra, P., Pearce, K. E., Tandoc, E., Thorson, K., Battocchio, A., & Kliger-Vilenchik, N. (2022, May). Panel Everyday misinformation and correction on private social media: Relationality, affordances, and emergent norms. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Interdivisional Division)
  • Pearce, K. E., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B., Usher, N., Saldaña, M., & Knight Steele, C. (2022, May). Panel We fucking warned you: A reminder about institutional and organizational resilience. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)
  • Perreault, G., Pearce, K. E., Bowman, N. D., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Kranstuber Horstman, H., Kingsley Westerman, C., Freiling, I., Dubois, E., Kaur, S., Dorrance Hall, E., Denes, A., Baykurt, B., Wirz, D. S., Bowe, B. J., Henrichsen, J., Friedlander, J., & Goodwin, C. (2022, May). Panel The Fulbright experience in communication. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)

In the Winter 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Dealing with the Omicron surge
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Working on a “TikTok” course for undergrads
• Keeping my family safe

In the Autumn 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• First quarter of being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Keeping my family safe
• Attending the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle
• Attending the virtual CSCW conference
• Attending the virtual AOIR conference
• Attending the National Communication Association conference in Seattle
• Published:
  • Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021). I just need to have a White Claw and play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology of Popular Media. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120211056125
  • Fox, J., Pearce, K. E., Massanari, A. L., Riles, J. M., Szulc, L., Ranjit, Y. S., Trevisian, F., Soriano, C. R. R., Vitak, J., Arora, P., Ahn, S. J., Alper, M., Gambino, A., Gonzalez, C., Lynch, T. L., Williamson, L. D., & Gonzales, A. L. (2021). Open science, closed doors? Countering marginalization through an agenda for ethical, inclusive research in Communication. Journal of Communication. http://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab029

In the Summer 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Finishing Animal Crossing and families project
• Finishing a marginality and open science project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Teaching an undergraduate research methods course
• Prepping for a new graduate course on global social media in the fall
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Starting to think about an undergraduate computer-mediated communication course
• Spending time outside

In the Spring 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Finishing replication study
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Published this: Ahn, S. J., Cripe, E. T., Foucault Welles, B., McGregor, S., Pearce, K. E., Usher, N., & Vitak, J. (2021). Academic caregivers on organizational and community resilience in academia (Fuck individual resilience). Communication, Culture, and Critique. http://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab027
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2020 April, rescheduled 2021, April). Socially mediated visibility. Penn State University, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, State College, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. UPenn Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Center for Communication & Public Policy, Evanston, IL.
• Presented this at ICA: Scott, C. R., Tracy, S., Stohl, M., Qiu, J., Cruz, J., Kang, K., Lane, J., Peterson, B., Foot, K., Albu, O., & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Panel Researching dangerous and/or difficult to access settings: Insights from communication experts in the field. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Rollins, D., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Fu, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B, & Knight Steele, C. (2021, May). Panel Caregiving and COVID: Reimagining parenting and academia for a post-pandemic world. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Facing falsehoods: Strategies and channel affordances for polite misinformation correction. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Communication & Technology Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021, May). I just need to have a White Claw and Play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Top paper, Games Studies Division). Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Game Studies Division)

In the Winter 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Pearce, K. E. (2020, April, rescheduled 2021, January). Digital activism in authoritarian societies. Politics from Below Conference, Centre for East European & International Studies, Berlin, Germany.

In the Fall 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching a new computer mediated communication graduate seminar
• Pearce, K. E., Gonzales, A. L., Foucault Welles, B. (2020). Introduction: Marginality and social media. Social Media & Society, 1-9. doi: 10.1177/2056305120930413
• Pearce, K. E. (2020). While Armenia and Azerbaijan fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, their citizens battled on social media. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog.

In the Summer 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)
• Teaching COM 303 (research methods)
• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Trying to figure out how on earth caregivers are expected to keep their jobs while also taking care of children

In the Spring 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)

In the Winter 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium

In the Fall 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium
• Gardening

In the Spring 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality
• Gardening
• Giving this talk:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2019, April). International threats. UW Cybersecurity Series, Seattle, WA.
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:
• Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2019, May). Online social support for reproductive health in Azerbaijan: A patriarchal bargaining framework. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Feminist Scholarship Division)
• Pearce, K. E. (2019, May). Amplified socially mediated visibility and power on panel Navigating power online: Self-expression, repression and survival. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Communication & Technology Division)
• Pearce, K. E., & Donohoe, D. (2019, May). Women overcoming barriers to communicating about reproductive health with social media on panel Communicating about reproductive health. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Interpersonal Communication Division)

In the Winter 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality

In the Fall 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Gardening
• Published this:

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility in gang prosecutions. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, x, x-x. doi: 10.1093/jcmc/zmy019 [link]

• Went to these workshops:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). The ethical implications of studying vulnerable populations. The 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) workshop on Exploring Ethical Tradeoffs in Social Media Research, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). When the bad actor is the state: Digitally deterring dissent. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems workshop on Understanding Bad Actors Online, Montreal, QE.

In the Spring 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 grad course on tech and ethics [syllabus]
• Running a graduate reading group on computer-mediated communication [reading list]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Lots of grad students working with empowerment as an outcome
• Gardening
• Gave these talks:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, June). Anti-social media. Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, NY.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Social media and the Armenian revolution. Armenia Tomorrow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnoLxzYqmwU (start at 59:00)
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J.  (2018, May). Socially mediated visibility: An examination of stigma management. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Carr, C. T., Vitak, J., & Hayes, R. A. (2018, May). Conceptualizing socially mediated visibility. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility and power in gang prosecutions. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Popular Communication Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Creeping toward what? Learning from 21st century authoritarian media systems on panel When authoritarianism rattles journalism’s supposed foundations. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Journalism Studies Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). The ethics of data-driven theory building in difficult research environments on panel Communication in the networked age: A discussion of theory building through data-driven research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Computational Methods Interest Group)

In the Winter 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Published this:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2018). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. International Journal of Communication. [link]

In the Fall 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 graduate course on content analysis [syllabus]
• Working on a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Hoping to begin data collection on a social movement organization
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Data access project. Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ

• Giving talks:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, September). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. The National University of Mexico, Mexico City.

Pearce, K. E. (2017, November). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. Northeastern’s NULab and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.

• Going to CESS to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, October). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Seattle WA.

• Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Gay men and trans women were suddenly rounded up in Azerbaijan. Here’s why. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Summer 2017, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
• Preparing a new graduate course on content analysis
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Theorizing communication in a digitally networked age. Penn State, State College, PA

In the Spring 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Giving a talk at Rutgers:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, March). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.

• Giving at talk at NYU/Columbia:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, April). Kompromat: What it is, where it came from, and why everyone is talking about it now. Columbia-NYU New York Russia Public Policy Seminar. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN51tgHl_uM

• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, May). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Rice, R E. (2017, May). Somewhat separate and unequal: Social networking site choice and activity differences and their capital-enhancing potential. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Rice, R. E., Treem, J., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Sivunen, A., Fox, J., & McEwan, B. (author order unimportant) (2017, May). Debating affordances: Defining and refining the contours of affordance measurement and theory. Panel presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

• Going to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, May). Overview. Paper presented to the 22nd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY.

In the Winter 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Giving at talk at the Wilson Center:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, February). Kompromat and the undermining of trust. Bridging the Gap on Cybersecurity Policy. Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. Video: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/bridging-the-gaps-cybersecurity-policy

• • Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Kompromat used to be a KGB tool in the Soviet Union. Now anyone can collect dirty data. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Fall 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social effects of technology [syllabus]
    • Teaching 1 graduate seminar on quantitative methods [syllabus]
    • Going to NCA to present:

Rice, R. E., Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Sivunen, A.,  Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, November). Organizational media affordances: Operationalization & associations with media use. Paper presented to the National Communication Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (Human Communication & Technology Division)

In the Summer of 2016, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Gardening
    • Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
    • Analyzing qualitative data collected in 2015 on risk/motivations of engagement in activism in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing a social network analysis manuscript on a thwarted protest

In the Spring 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Taught an undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Worked with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Presented at Innovate Armenia
    • Went to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Guliyev, F. (2016, April). Digital knives are still knives: The affordances of social media for a repressed opposition against an entrenched authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan on panel Opposition 2.0: Challenging authoritarianism in the 21^st century. Paper presented to the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, New York, NY.

• • • Going to ICA to be a mentor at the Doctoral Consortium and to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2016, June). What can we learn about privacy from those with zero expectation of it? on panel New communication technologies: Issues of privacy, power & control. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, June). The Affordances Test: A conceptual model for understanding affordances in communication research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J. (2016, June). Visible if you do, Visible if you don’t: How social media complicates concealment & disclosure of stigmatized political beliefs in an authoritarian setting. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Treem, J. W., Pearce, K. E., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Schrock, A., Barta, K., Ford J. S., & Shorey, S. (2016, June). Looking back to look forward: Tracing the history of affordances to develop a framework for understanding communication technology. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

In the Winter 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching an undergraduate course in social effect of technology use (COM 303) [syllabus]
    • Teaching a course in communication technology and ethics in our department’s professional masters program [syllabus]
    • Finishing revisions on a book chapter on the ethical challenges of using digital methods in difficult research environments
    • Submitting a manuscript on the impact of social media on stigmatized political beliefs in authoritarian environments
    • Submitted 2 manuscripts on affordances
    • Overseeing undergraduate research assistants conducting a literature review on honor and modesty in Islam
    • Working with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing qualitative data collected in 2015 for analysis, topic is motivations and understanding of risk with engagement in activism in authoritarian environments

In the Fall 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Working as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Keeping my family safe
• Recruiting new graduate students

In the Summer 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Taking over as vice-chair for the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association
• Keeping my family safe
• Giving a talk here: Digital divide, culture & intersectionality. Governing Conversations Series, The Digital Interests Lab at NYU and the Yale Information Society Project.
• Participating at #ICTD2022: Coward, C., Sey, A., Pearce, K. E., Malhotra, P.; Bugre, C., & Wack, M. (2022, June). Researching misinformation in ICTD. Panel presented to the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development, Seattle.

In the Spring 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Finishing up a women in Azerbaijan project
• Starting in on a women in the Global South project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Keeping my family safe
• Published
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan. New Media & Society. http://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221097946
  • Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2022). The influence of social media discussion on son preference in Azerbaijan: Reinforcing norms, bargaining with patriarchy, space for dissent. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2456-2476. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18127
  • Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2022). Facing falsehoods: Strategies for polite misinformation correction. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2303-2324. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18361
  • Pearce, K. E., & Malhotra, P. (2022). Inaccuracies and izzat: Channel affordances for the consideration of face in misinformation correction. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac004 
  • Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., Bhattacharya, A., Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., & Lee, J. (2022). Joint Media Engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: Families playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. CSCW Conference Proceedings.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3512947
• Presented:
  • Rice, R. E., Pearce, K. E., & Calderwood, K. (2022, May). Wither the device divide? Changing relationships between computer or mobile device with online activities Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Hayes, R., Humphreys, L., Ellison, N. B., Bruns, A., Pearce, K. E., Foucault Welles, B., & Lee, E. (2022, May). Panel Transforming social media scholarship: Future-forward insight on dynamic environments. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Carr, C. T., Wei, R., Kümpel, A., Ellison, N. B., Liu, B. Bazarova, N., & Pearce, K. E. (2022, May). Panel CATching up with the division: A welcome to new and early CAT members. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Communication & Technology Division)
  • Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., Hall, N., Seet, S., Malhotra, P., Pearce, K. E., Tandoc, E., Thorson, K., Battocchio, A., & Kliger-Vilenchik, N. (2022, May). Panel Everyday misinformation and correction on private social media: Relationality, affordances, and emergent norms. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Interdivisional Division)
  • Pearce, K. E., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B., Usher, N., Saldaña, M., & Knight Steele, C. (2022, May). Panel We fucking warned you: A reminder about institutional and organizational resilience. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)
  • Perreault, G., Pearce, K. E., Bowman, N. D., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Kranstuber Horstman, H., Kingsley Westerman, C., Freiling, I., Dubois, E., Kaur, S., Dorrance Hall, E., Denes, A., Baykurt, B., Wirz, D. S., Bowe, B. J., Henrichsen, J., Friedlander, J., & Goodwin, C. (2022, May). Panel The Fulbright experience in communication. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Paris. (Blue Sky Division)

In the Winter 2022 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• ON SABBATICAL!
• Dealing with the Omicron surge
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Working on a “TikTok” course for undergrads
• Keeping my family safe

In the Autumn 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• First quarter of being an Associate Editor at the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Keeping my family safe
• Attending the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle
• Attending the virtual CSCW conference
• Attending the virtual AOIR conference
• Attending the National Communication Association conference in Seattle
• Published:
  • Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021). I just need to have a White Claw and play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology of Popular Media. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120211056125
  • Fox, J., Pearce, K. E., Massanari, A. L., Riles, J. M., Szulc, L., Ranjit, Y. S., Trevisian, F., Soriano, C. R. R., Vitak, J., Arora, P., Ahn, S. J., Alper, M., Gambino, A., Gonzalez, C., Lynch, T. L., Williamson, L. D., & Gonzales, A. L. (2021). Open science, closed doors? Countering marginalization through an agenda for ethical, inclusive research in Communication. Journal of Communication. http://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab029

In the Summer 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Finishing Animal Crossing and families project
• Finishing a marginality and open science project
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Teaching an undergraduate research methods course
• Prepping for a new graduate course on global social media in the fall
• Running for vice-chair of the ICA Communication and Technology Division
• Beginning course design for a new undergraduate technology and society gateway course
• Starting to think about an undergraduate computer-mediated communication course
• Spending time outside

In the Spring 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Finishing replication study
• Working on stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Teaching an undergraduate social media and society course
• Published this: Ahn, S. J., Cripe, E. T., Foucault Welles, B., McGregor, S., Pearce, K. E., Usher, N., & Vitak, J. (2021). Academic caregivers on organizational and community resilience in academia (Fuck individual resilience). Communication, Culture, and Critique. http://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab027
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2020 April, rescheduled 2021, April). Socially mediated visibility. Penn State University, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, State College, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. UPenn Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gave this talk: Pearce, K. E. (2021, April). Socially mediated visibility in socially and politically authoritarian societies. Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Center for Communication & Public Policy, Evanston, IL.
• Presented this at ICA: Scott, C. R., Tracy, S., Stohl, M., Qiu, J., Cruz, J., Kang, K., Lane, J., Peterson, B., Foot, K., Albu, O., & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Panel Researching dangerous and/or difficult to access settings: Insights from communication experts in the field. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Rollins, D., McGregor, S., Ahn, S., Fu, S., Cripe, E., Vitak, J., Foucault Welles, B, & Knight Steele, C. (2021, May). Panel Caregiving and COVID: Reimagining parenting and academia for a post-pandemic world. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Blue Sky Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Malhotra, P, & Pearce, K. E. (2021, May). Facing falsehoods: Strategies and channel affordances for polite misinformation correction. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Communication & Technology Division)
• Presented this at ICA: Pearce, K. E., Yip, J. C., Lee, J., Martinez, J., Windleharth, T., Li, Q., & Bhattacharya, A. (2021, May). I just need to have a White Claw and Play Animal Crossing tonight: Parents coping with video games during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Top paper, Games Studies Division). Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. [Virtual COVID19] (Game Studies Division)

In the Winter 2021 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching undergraduate research methods
• Pearce, K. E. (2020, April, rescheduled 2021, January). Digital activism in authoritarian societies. Politics from Below Conference, Centre for East European & International Studies, Berlin, Germany.

In the Fall 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

Surviving

• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Setting up a replication study
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Teaching a new computer mediated communication graduate seminar
• Pearce, K. E., Gonzales, A. L., Foucault Welles, B. (2020). Introduction: Marginality and social media. Social Media & Society, 1-9. doi: 10.1177/2056305120930413
• Pearce, K. E. (2020). While Armenia and Azerbaijan fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, their citizens battled on social media. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog.

In the Summer 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)
• Teaching COM 303 (research methods)
• Working on a misinformation correction project
• Working on an Animal Crossing and families project
• Working on a marginality and open science project
• Trying to figure out how on earth caregivers are expected to keep their jobs while also taking care of children

In the Spring 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

PANDEMIC-ING

• Teaching COM 382 (research methods)

In the Winter 2020 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium

In the Fall 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

ON LEAVE

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-directing the ICA 2020 Communication and Technology Division and Mobile Communication Interest Group doctoral consortium
• Gardening

In the Spring 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality
• Gardening
• Giving this talk:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2019, April). International threats. UW Cybersecurity Series, Seattle, WA.
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:
• Pearce, K. E., Donohoe, D., Barta, K., & Vitak, J. (2019, May). Online social support for reproductive health in Azerbaijan: A patriarchal bargaining framework. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Feminist Scholarship Division)
• Pearce, K. E. (2019, May). Amplified socially mediated visibility and power on panel Navigating power online: Self-expression, repression and survival. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Communication & Technology Division)
• Pearce, K. E., & Donohoe, D. (2019, May). Women overcoming barriers to communicating about reproductive health with social media on panel Communicating about reproductive health. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, DC. (Interpersonal Communication Division)

In the Winter 2019 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Co-organizing an ICA postconference on technology and marginality

In the Fall 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Working on a new Azerbaijan project
• Co-special editing an issue of Social Media + Society about Social Media and Marginality
• Gardening
• Published this:

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility in gang prosecutions. Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, x, x-x. doi: 10.1093/jcmc/zmy019 [link]

• Went to these workshops:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). The ethical implications of studying vulnerable populations. The 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) workshop on Exploring Ethical Tradeoffs in Social Media Research, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018). When the bad actor is the state: Digitally deterring dissent. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems workshop on Understanding Bad Actors Online, Montreal, QE.

In the Spring 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 grad course on tech and ethics [syllabus]
• Running a graduate reading group on computer-mediated communication [reading list]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Lots of grad students working with empowerment as an outcome
• Gardening
• Gave these talks:
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, June). Anti-social media. Personal Democracy Forum, New York City, NY.
  • Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Social media and the Armenian revolution. Armenia Tomorrow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnoLxzYqmwU (start at 59:00)
• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J.  (2018, May). Socially mediated visibility: An examination of stigma management. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Carr, C. T., Vitak, J., & Hayes, R. A. (2018, May). Conceptualizing socially mediated visibility. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Communication & Technology Division)

Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility and power in gang prosecutions. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Popular Communication Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). Creeping toward what? Learning from 21st century authoritarian media systems on panel When authoritarianism rattles journalism’s supposed foundations. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Journalism Studies Division)

Pearce, K. E. (2018, May). The ethics of data-driven theory building in difficult research environments on panel Communication in the networked age: A discussion of theory building through data-driven research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. (Computational Methods Interest Group)

In the Winter 2018 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergrad social network analysis course [syllabus]
• Finishing a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Working on a big visibility project
• Published this:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2018). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. International Journal of Communication. [link]

In the Fall 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 graduate course on content analysis [syllabus]
• Working on a new collaboration about socially-mediated visibility in a different context: police surveillance of marginalized groups
• Hoping to finish up stigma project
• Hoping to begin data collection on a social movement organization
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Data access project. Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ

• Giving talks:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, September). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. The National University of Mexico, Mexico City.

Pearce, K. E. (2017, November). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. Northeastern’s NULab and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.

• Going to CESS to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, October). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Seattle WA.

• Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Gay men and trans women were suddenly rounded up in Azerbaijan. Here’s why. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Summer 2017, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
• Preparing a new graduate course on content analysis
• Going to workshops:

2017    Participant, Theorizing communication in a digitally networked age. Penn State, State College, PA

In the Spring 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Gardening
• Giving a talk at Rutgers:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, March). Socially-mediated visibility in authoritarianism. School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.

• Giving at talk at NYU/Columbia:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, April). Kompromat: What it is, where it came from, and why everyone is talking about it now. Columbia-NYU New York Russia Public Policy Seminar. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN51tgHl_uM

• Going to ICA to be a doctoral consortium mentor and to present:

Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Barta, K. (2017, May). Socially mediated visibility: Friendship and dissent in authoritarian Azerbaijan. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Rice, R E. (2017, May). Somewhat separate and unequal: Social networking site choice and activity differences and their capital-enhancing potential. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., Rice, R. E., Treem, J., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Sivunen, A., Fox, J., & McEwan, B. (author order unimportant) (2017, May). Debating affordances: Defining and refining the contours of affordance measurement and theory. Panel presented to the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. (Communication & Technology Division)

• Going to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, May). Overview. Paper presented to the 22nd Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY.

In the Winter 2017 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
• Giving at talk at the Wilson Center:

Pearce, K. E. (2017, February). Kompromat and the undermining of trust. Bridging the Gap on Cybersecurity Policy. Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. Video: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/bridging-the-gaps-cybersecurity-policy

• • Published this:

Pearce, K. E. (2017). Kompromat used to be a KGB tool in the Soviet Union. Now anyone can collect dirty data. Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. [link]

In the Fall 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 1 undergraduate course in social effects of technology [syllabus]
    • Teaching 1 graduate seminar on quantitative methods [syllabus]
    • Going to NCA to present:

Rice, R. E., Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Sivunen, A.,  Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, November). Organizational media affordances: Operationalization & associations with media use. Paper presented to the National Communication Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (Human Communication & Technology Division)

In the Summer of 2016, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching 2 undergraduate courses in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Gardening
    • Finishing revisions on a number of manuscripts
    • Analyzing qualitative data collected in 2015 on risk/motivations of engagement in activism in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing a social network analysis manuscript on a thwarted protest

In the Spring 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Taught an undergraduate course in social network analysis [syllabus]
    • Worked with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Presented at Innovate Armenia
    • Went to ASN to present:

Pearce, K. E., & Guliyev, F. (2016, April). Digital knives are still knives: The affordances of social media for a repressed opposition against an entrenched authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan on panel Opposition 2.0: Challenging authoritarianism in the 21^st century. Paper presented to the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, New York, NY.

• • • Going to ICA to be a mentor at the Doctoral Consortium and to present:

Pearce, K. E. (2016, June). What can we learn about privacy from those with zero expectation of it? on panel New communication technologies: Issues of privacy, power & control. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2016, June). The Affordances Test: A conceptual model for understanding affordances in communication research. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Pearce, K. E., & Vitak, J. (2016, June). Visible if you do, Visible if you don’t: How social media complicates concealment & disclosure of stigmatized political beliefs in an authoritarian setting. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

Treem, J. W., Pearce, K. E., Evans, S. K., Vitak, J., Schrock, A., Barta, K., Ford J. S., & Shorey, S. (2016, June). Looking back to look forward: Tracing the history of affordances to develop a framework for understanding communication technology. Paper presented to the International Communication Association Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. (Communication & Technology Division)

In the Winter 2016 quarter, I’m doing the following:

• • • Teaching an undergraduate course in social effect of technology use (COM 303) [syllabus]
    • Teaching a course in communication technology and ethics in our department’s professional masters program [syllabus]
    • Finishing revisions on a book chapter on the ethical challenges of using digital methods in difficult research environments
    • Submitting a manuscript on the impact of social media on stigmatized political beliefs in authoritarian environments
    • Submitted 2 manuscripts on affordances
    • Overseeing undergraduate research assistants conducting a literature review on honor and modesty in Islam
    • Working with a graduate student on a comprehensive literature review on Internet in authoritarian environments
    • Preparing qualitative data collected in 2015 for analysis, topic is motivations and understanding of risk with engagement in activism in authoritarian environments