Master’s Thesis on Weight-Related Journeys on Social Media

The University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI;

Role: Principal Investigator; advised by Dr. Nazanin Andalibi

Designed and executed a graduate thesis that examined the experiences of emerging adults who document weight-related journeys on social media to better understand the motivations and impacts of this content production, and its implications for design

Publications

“I like to See the Ups and Downs of My Own Journey”: Motivations for and Impacts of Returning to Past Content About Weight Related Journeys on Social Media

Nadia Karizat, Nazanin Andalibi

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 7, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023 Apr, pp. 1–41