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Camille Butera Information Science PhD student at CU Boulder.
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Some current projects I am working on include:

account history
I have been conducting historically driven research on how accounts have evolved as technical and social objects. A primary focus is how that design has been iterated on and expanded over the history of networked and/or shared systems. Why were specific design choices made? What are the threads that tie things together? What is an account in a historical sense (and how is identity latched onto it) and what does that mean for us and the future of design?
account closure
What causes people to abandon or delete their accounts? What is the process by which they make these choices? And how can we build tools to help them navigate this process?
account switching
A project investigating the mechanisms that people use for managing switching between multiple accounts. What are the technical practices involved, and what do they reveal about established industry norms and support for switching between multiple accounts?

Additionally, here are some of my past publications:

Kocik, D., Berge, PS., Butera, C., Oon, C. & Senters, M. ( 2024) “Imagine a Place:” Power and Intimacy in Fandoms on Discord. Transformative Works and Cultures.

"Before You Follow": Digital About Pages and Identity Formation on the Twitter subculture of #danmeitwt. Oxford University MSc Thesis. August 2022.

Martin, C. C., & Butera, C. (2022). Can Brief Interventions Improve Functioning in Engineering Student Dyads?. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 19(1), 14.

“You’re Exactly What I’d Expect from the Confesh”: Identity and Catharsis in a Digital Space of Localized Anonymity. Smith College Honors Thesis. May 2021.

Butera, C. (2019) “'The Dismal Fantasy of the Cold Vacuity': Lovecraft, Lewis, and Science Fiction as a Means of Processing the Great War." The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Butera, C. (2019) "The Failure of the Zhenotdel: The Bolshevik Government and the Lack of Equity Provided to Russian Women between 1917 and 1930." The Birch: The Columbia University Undergraduate Journal of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies.

And conference talks:

"Fan Production and the Paradox of Perception on Discord". Fan Studies Network North America. October 2022.

“Parasocial Relationships in Actual Play Podcasts”, Atlanta GA. Comics and Popular Arts Conference. September 2019.

"'Don’t you ever do anything but cook and read?': Gender and domestic labor in the contemporary children’s fantasy novel," San Diego, CA. Mythopoeic Conference. August 2019.