PhD candidate at @CCCatMIT at @MediaLab. @Microsoft Research Fellow. Design & Sociotechnical Systems. Community organizing, civic tech, and data activism.
Cambridge, MA
Joined February 2016
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Maggie Hughes retweeted
🚨🚨 “We need to figure out how to give … us a chance to build up civic muscles” said @BarackObama in his speech today on #disinformation, mentioning the “great work” being done @CCCatMIT in “making online conversations more civil and productive”.
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Maggie Hughes retweeted
From Alinsky to Zoom: Understanding Relational, Structure-Based Organizing in 2021 organized by @_maggatronn and @eslin For more details on this, visit fromalinskytozoom.wordpress.… #CSCW21
Excited to co-host a workshop with @eslin at #CSCW2021 on organizing, mobilizing, and tech, how they relate to one another, and how we might iterate upon a traditional organizing framework (Marshall Ganz's People, Power, Change) informed by our findings fromalinskytozoom.wordpress.…
Interested community organizers, technologists, researchers, designers... apply here by Friday 9/17! forms.gle/SbczpRcAzN85hyoq6 Can't wait to work with you.
Maggie Hughes retweeted
Interested in organizing, mobilizing, and tech? Want to learn with community organizers, technologists, designers, and researchers? Consider applying to @_maggatronn and @eslin's workshop at @ACM_CSCW fromalinskytozoom.wordpress.…
Apps due Friday at this link! forms.gle/zCFzgThQKFEYCXhH8
Maggie Hughes retweeted
I had the best time in session Care(ful) Design & Many (sic) Worthy Topics at #CHI2021 (image courtesy of taking many screenshots & cut/paste to form one cohesive paper session group 😎)
ALT A zoom screenshot with participants Janet Chen, Aisling O'Kane, MinYoung Yoo, Cayla Key, Daniel Lambton-Howard, Jesse Benjamin, Joanna McGrenere, Margaret Hughes, Colin Gray, Miguel Bruns, and Eric Corbett
Looking forward to presenting at #CHI2021 in Care(ful) Designs today at 11AM EDT! I'll be presenting a paper from my masters thesis on designing conversation interfaces informed by in person facilitation practices. Completed with @socialmachines
Maggie Hughes retweeted
It's happening!! Months of work with an excellent team!! Don't miss it! So excited to see so many women, non-binary, and men attendees joining us today!
#WiML2020 Program Book: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Gather.town:
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Thank you to the organizers of #WiML2020 for their efforts and creativity in planning this year's event! Say hi to them on Gather.Town! They are @XinyiChen2, @ermgrant, @kristyechoi, @kammitama, @xenia_mis, @judyhshen, @bcsaldias, @raquelaoki, @melosare, & @liz_wood.
So valued our discussion in the Mediated Interactions poster session at #CSCW where I describe my master's thesis work at @socialmachines ✨ Check out the small paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3…
Maggie Hughes retweeted
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections:
Maggie Hughes retweeted
To everyone who just met us: ty so much for the support! We are a long term abolitionist bail fund in MA, posting bail since 2013 -> 3500 bails, $1.4 million. All $$ donated goes directly to bail - either for protest arrests or bail requests from the community. #FreeThemAll