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Employment (13)

University of Regina: Regina, SK, CA

2021-09-01 to present | Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Computer Science)
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Miriam Boon

University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

2019-09-15 to 2021-08-15 | Postdoctoral Fellow (ASCOR)
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Miriam Boon

Northwestern University: Evanston, IL, US

2012-07 to 2019-08 | Research Assistant (Computer Science)
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Northwestern University: Evanston, IL, US

2013-09 to 2019-03 | Teaching Assistant (Computer Science)
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: Batavia, IL, US

2009-07 to 2012-06 | Online Editor, Science Node (Department of Communications)
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Freelance: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2005-01 to 2009-06 | Freelance science and technology journalist and editor
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BBC Focus Magazine: Bristol, GB

2008-04 to 2008-05 | Editorial Intern
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Canadian Office Products Association: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2005 to 2007 | Online Editor
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Freelance: San Francisco, California, US

2002-06 to 2004-12 | Freelance Science and Technology Journalist and Editor
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Wired Magazine: San Francisco, California, US

2003-07 to 2003-12 | Editorial Products Intern
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Palo Alto Weekly: Palo Alto, California, US

2003-03 to 2003-05 | Editorial Intern
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: Menlo Park, CA, US

2002-06 to 2002-10 | Communications Intern (Department of Communications)
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Technology Review: Cambridge, Massachussetts, US

2002-02 to 2002-06 | Editorial Intern
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Education and qualifications (3)

Northwestern University: Evanston, IL, US

2012-07 to 2019-09 | Doctor of Philosophy (Technology and Social Behavior (Computer Science and Communication Studies))
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Ryerson University: Toronto, ON, CA

2007-09 to 2010-01 | Master of Journalism (Journalism)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

1998-09 to 2002-06 | Bachelor of Science (Physics)
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Funding (1)

Health Research Communications Awards

2008-09-01 to 2009-08-31 | Grant
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7621803
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Works (14)

Drag-and-Drop Query Refinement and Query History Visualization for Mobile Exploratory Search

2023-03-19 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3576840.3578282
Contributors: Mohammad Hasan Payandeh; Miriam Boon; Dale Storie; Veronica Ramshaw; Orland Hoeber
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Correction: Null effects of news exposure: a test of the (un)desirable effects of a ‘news vacation’ and ‘news binging’

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
2022-12-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01477-x
Contributors: Magdalena Wojcieszak; Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg; Andreu Casas; Ericka Menchen-Trevino; Sjifra de Leeuw; Alexandre Gonçalves; Miriam Boon
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Null effects of news exposure: a test of the (un)desirable effects of a ‘news vacation’ and ‘news binging’

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
2022-11-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01423-x
Contributors: Magdalena Wojcieszak; Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg; Andreu Casas; Ericka Menchen-Trevino; Sjifra de Leeuw; Alexandre Gonçalves; Miriam Boon
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Null effects of news exposure: A causal test of the (un)desirable effects of a ‘news vacation’ and ‘news binging’

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2021-10-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-909520/v1
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Miriam Boon

Can AI Enhance People’s Support for Online Moderation and Their Openness to Dissimilar Political Views?

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
2021-09-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmab006
Part of ISSN: 1083-6101
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Miriam Boon

Is news to blame? Analyzing the effects of “news vacation” on affective polarization and other outcomes

OSF Registries
2020 | Other
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/r8afs
Contributors: magdalena wojcieszak; Andreu Casas; Miriam Boon; Ericka Menchen-Trevino
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s news to blame? Analyzing the effects of more news on affective polarization and other outcomes

OSF Registries
2020 | Other
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/7zg68
Contributors: magdalena wojcieszak; Miriam Boon; Andreu Casas; Ericka Menchen-Trevino
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Identifying "horse race" stories in election news

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3308557.3308707
EID:

2-s2.0-85074455469
Contributors: Boon, M.; Birnbaum, L.
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In AI we trust: Can AI enhance people’s support for online moderation and their openness to dissimilar political views?

OSF Registries
2019 | Other
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/zey7h
Contributors: Miriam Boon; magdalena wojcieszak; Andreu Casas; Ericka Menchen-Trevino
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Who is the hero, the villain, and the victim? Detection of roles in news articles using natural language techniques

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3172944.3172993
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2-s2.0-85045448324
Contributors: Gomez-Zara, D.; Boon, M.; Birnbaum, L.
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It’s All News to Me: The Remix

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
2018-01-03 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2018.214
ISBN: 9780998133119
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Miriam Boon

Augmenting media literacy with automatic characterization of news along pragmatic dimensions

CSCW 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
2017 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3022198.3024948
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2-s2.0-85016043136
Contributors: Boon, M.
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The news context project

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
2015 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/2732158.2732178
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2-s2.0-84958690833
Contributors: Birnbaum, L.; Boon, M.; Bradley, S.; Wilson, J.
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Information density, Heaps’ Law, and perception of factiness in news

Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science
2014-06 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.3115/v1/w14-2511
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Miriam Boon
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