Publications & Talks
Peer-reviewed publications, workshop papers, posters, invited talks, conference presentations, media, and essays.
Essays & public writing
Longer-form public writing on trust, weather, and platforms has moved to Substack. Read on Substack →
Peer-reviewed publications
- "Making Sense of the Weather, Together", Julie A. Vera et al. — CSCW '26
CSCW '26. Publishing October 2026. arxiv.org/abs/2605.16285 - Popularity Without Legitimacy? Comparing Trust in Television Meteorologists and YouTube Weatherfluencers, Julie A. Vera — ISCRAM · Jun 2026
ojs.iscram.org/index.php/Proceedings/article/view/306 - Collaborative Autoethnography as a Method to Explore Short-Lived Social AI Chatbots, Soobin Cho, Anna Lindner, Joseph S. Schafer, Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Julie A. Vera, and Mark Zachry — HAI · Nov 2025
doi.org/10.1145/3765766.3765830 - Deep Storytelling: Collective Sensemaking and Layers of Meaning in U.S. Elections, Stephen Prochaska, Julie A. Vera, Douglas Lew Tan, Ben Yamron, Sylvie Venuto, Amaya Kejriwal, Sarah Chu, and Kate Starbird — CSCW · Oct 2025
doi.org/10.1145/3757576 - "They've Over-Emphasized That One Search": Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok's For You Page, Julie A. Vera and Sourojit Ghosh — CHI · Apr 2025
doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713666 - To Screenshot or Not to Screenshot? Tensions in Representing Visual Social Media Platform Posts, Joseph S. Schafer, Brett A. Halperin, Sourojit Ghosh, and Julie A. Vera — AoIR · Oct 2024
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (2024) - How-To in Short-Form: A Framework for Analyzing Short-Format Instructional Content on TikTok, Julie A. Vera, David W. McDonald, and Mark Zachry — Tech. Comm. · May 2024
Technical Communication 71.2 (2024): 5-25 - The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management, Kimberly Perkins, Sourojit Ghosh, Julie A. Vera, Cecilia Aragon, and Adam Hyland — IJAAA · 2022
doi.org/10.15394/ijaaa.2022.1728
Additional contributing-author work available on request or via full CV. Full record on Google Scholar.
Workshop papers
- News Futures Workshop, presenting a research agenda on weatherfluencers and their role in crisis information ecosystems. — CHI, Yokohama · Apr 2025 Workshop details →
- Beyond Viral Dances: Crisis and Disaster Sensemaking on TikTok, Julie A. Vera, Mark Zachry, and David W. McDonald — Sensemaking Workshop, CHI · May 2024 Read paper →
- Misleading Ourselves: How Disinformation Manipulates Sensemaking, Stephen D. Prochaska, Julie A. Vera, and Diana L. Tan. — Sensemaking Workshop, CHI · May 2024
- Hierarchy In/As Complexity, Adam Hyland, Julie A. Vera, and Brett A. Halperin. — Agre After Techno-Utopianism Workshop, University of Siegen · Sep 2022
Posters
- Weathering Trust: Credibility Formation in YouTube's Weather Information Ecosystem — Trust and Safety Research Conference, Stanford · 2025 View poster →
- Yellowstone Is Not Erupting: Rumor Correction and How TikTok Users Made Sense of a Small-Scale Hoax — Trust and Safety Research Conference, Stanford · 2024 View poster →
Invited talks
- SAP UA Futures Group, invited talk. — June 2026
Video link pending, will add once posted to Vimeo. - Know Your User: Design Methods & Frameworks to Use Every Day, a practical workshop on UX research methods for product managers. — Boston Product Management Association · May 2023 Watch on YouTube
Dissertation defense
"Weatherfluencers: Trust and Collective Sensemaking in Severe Weather Livestreams." — University of Washington · May 2026
Recording pending.
Media
- TikTok Insiders and Creators Worry Its Powerful Algorithm Could Lose Its Magic After a Sale: expert commentary on TikTok's recommendation algorithm and its pending sale. — Business Insider · Oct 2025
- Facts, Frames, and (Mis)interpretations: Understanding Rumors as Collective Sensemaking: on how social media users collectively make sense of ambiguous information during crisis events. — Center for an Informed Public · Dec 2023