Casey Fiesler

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
121 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Casey Fiesler is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Casey Fiesler has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 39 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 37 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Casey Fiesler's work include Social Media and Politics (28 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (28 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (22 papers). Casey Fiesler is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (28 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (28 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (22 papers). Casey Fiesler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Casey Fiesler's co-authors include Amy Bruckman, Nicholas Proferes, Jed R. Brubaker, Nathan Beard, Brianna Dym, Jialun Aaron Jiang, Natalie Garrett, Michael Zimmer, Jill Dimond and Sarah Gilbert and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Casey Fiesler

117 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

“Participant” Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2021 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. “Participant” Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics
    2018 331 citations Casey Fiesler, Nicholas Proferes profile →
  2. Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics
    2021 259 citations Nicholas Proferes, Casey Fiesler et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Casey Fiesler United States 31 1.5k 882 787 615 600 121 3.4k
Andrea Forte United States 29 1.8k 1.2× 609 0.7× 1.5k 1.9× 187 0.3× 694 1.2× 92 5.2k
Sarita Schoenebeck United States 30 1.9k 1.3× 549 0.6× 938 1.2× 150 0.2× 685 1.1× 64 3.6k
Pamela Wiśniewski United States 35 2.1k 1.4× 503 0.6× 647 0.8× 204 0.3× 841 1.4× 204 3.6k
Jed R. Brubaker United States 29 1.4k 0.9× 525 0.6× 580 0.7× 274 0.4× 798 1.3× 88 3.2k
Jeremy Birnholtz United States 31 1.3k 0.9× 308 0.3× 601 0.8× 195 0.3× 646 1.1× 98 3.2k
Laura Brandimarte United States 13 2.6k 1.7× 702 0.8× 328 0.4× 402 0.7× 196 0.3× 29 4.4k
Petter Bae Brandtzæg Norway 31 1.9k 1.2× 1.4k 1.5× 995 1.3× 253 0.4× 266 0.4× 72 3.9k
Airi Lampinen Sweden 25 1.6k 1.0× 347 0.4× 421 0.5× 191 0.3× 653 1.1× 87 2.8k
Taina Bucher Norway 14 1.4k 0.9× 267 0.3× 744 0.9× 571 0.9× 228 0.4× 28 2.5k
Amy Bruckman United States 41 2.6k 1.7× 1.2k 1.4× 2.2k 2.8× 306 0.5× 910 1.5× 161 6.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Casey Fiesler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Casey Fiesler

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Madaio, Michael, et al.. (2025). Pragmatic Fairness: Evaluating ML Fairness Within the Constraints of Industry. 628–638. 1 indexed citations
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Spiel, Katta, et al.. (2025). Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 9(1). 1–27.
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Fiesler, Casey, et al.. (2024). Black to the Future - The Power of Designing Afrofuturist Technology with Black Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary People. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2156–2172. 5 indexed citations
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Burke, Robin, et al.. (2024). Recommend Me? Designing Fairness Metrics with Providers. 2389–2399. 4 indexed citations
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Kairam, Sanjay, Michael S. Bernstein, Amy Bruckman, et al.. (2024). Community-Driven Models for Research on Social Platforms. 684–688. 1 indexed citations
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Jost, Emily, Laurel H. Messer, Paul Cook, et al.. (2024). “Obviously, Nothing's Gonna Happen in Five Minutes”: How Adolescents and Young Adults Infrastructure Resources to Learn Type 1 Diabetes Management. PubMed. 2024. 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Fiesler, Casey, et al.. (2024). Teaching Ethics In CS Programs - Questions, Models, Resources, Assessments. 1921–1921. 1 indexed citations
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Spiel, Katta, et al.. (2023). How to Ethically Engage Fat People in HCI Research. 117–121. 9 indexed citations
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Messer, Laurel H., Paul Cook, Stephen Voida, et al.. (2023). Situational Awareness and Proactive Engagement Predict Higher Time in Range in Adolescents and Young Adults Using Hybrid Closed-Loop. Pediatric Diabetes. 2023. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Keegan, Brian, et al.. (2023). Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances. 86–90. 5 indexed citations
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Chancellor, Stevie, et al.. (2023). A Systematic Review of Ethics Disclosures in Predictive Mental Health Research. 1311–1323. 10 indexed citations
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Fiesler, Casey, et al.. (2023). Teaching Ethics in Computing: A Systematic Literature Review of ACM Computer Science Education Publications. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. 24(1). 1–36. 24 indexed citations
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Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus, Jialun Aaron Jiang, Casey Fiesler, & Jed R. Brubaker. (2021). A Framework of Severity for Harmful Content Online. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 5(CSCW2). 1–33. 61 indexed citations
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Fiesler, Casey. (2021). Innovating Like an Optimist, Preparing Like a Pessimist: Ethical Speculation and the Legal Imagination. SSRN Electronic Journal. 14 indexed citations
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Jiang, Jialun Aaron, Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Casey Fiesler, & Jed R. Brubaker. (2021). Understanding international perceptions of the severity of harmful content online. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0256762–e0256762. 39 indexed citations
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Garrett, Natalie, Nathan Beard, & Casey Fiesler. (2020). More Than "If Time Allows". Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society. 272–278. 91 indexed citations
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Fiesler, Casey. (2018). Everything I Needed to Know: Empirical Investigations of Copyright Norms in Fandom. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Keegan, Brian & Casey Fiesler. (2017). The Evolution and Consequences of Peer Producing Wikipedia’s Rules. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 12 indexed citations
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Pater, Jessica, et al.. (2016). Characterizations of Online Harassment. 369–374. 101 indexed citations
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Fiesler, Casey. (2008). Everything I Need To Know I Learned from Fandom: How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations

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