Libby Hemphill
Associate Professor of Information, School of Information, Research Associate Professor, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research and Associate Professor of the Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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Libby Hemphill directs the Resource Center for Minority Data at ICPSR and holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the UM School of Information. She joined ICPSR in September 2017 from Illinois Institute of Technology where she was an Associate Professor of Communication and Information Studies. She studies politicians, non-profit organizations, and television fans to understand how people use social media to organize, discuss, and enact social change. She also develops automated mechanisms for moderating and classifying content in social media in order to reduce toxicity in online conversations. Hemphill received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan and an A.B. from The University of Chicago.
- Ma, Zihui, Li, Lingyao, Libby Hemphill, Baecher, Gregory B., Yuan, Yubai. 2024. Investigating disaster response for resilient communities through social media data and the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model: A case study of 2020 Western U.S. wildfire season. Sustainable Cities and Society 106:105362.
- Libby Hemphill, Andrea Thomer, Sara Lafia, Fan, Lizhou, David Bleckley, Elizabeth Moss. 2024. A dataset for measuring the impact of research data and their curation. Scientific Data 11:442.
- Gao, Zhenxiang, Li, Lingyao, Ma, Siyuan, Wang, Qinyong, Libby Hemphill, Xu, Rong. 2023. Examining the Potential of ChatGPT on Biomedical Information Retrieval: Fact-Checking Drug-Disease Associations. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 52:1919-1927.
- Libby Hemphill, Angela Schöpke-Gonzalez, Panda, Anmol. 2022. Comparative sensitivity of social media data and their acceptable use in research. Scientific Data 9:643.
- Angela M. Schöpke-Gonzalez, Shubham Atreja, Han Na Shin, Najmin Ahmed, Libby Hemphill. 2022. Why do volunteer content moderators quit? Burnout, conflict, and harmful behaviors. New Media & Society
- Hemphill, Libby, Shapiro, Matthew D. 2019. Appealing to the base or to the moveable middle? Incumbents' partisan messaging before the 2016 U.S. congressional elections. Journal of Information Technology & Politics 16(4):325-341.
- Hemphill, Libby, Kocurek, Carly , Rao, Xi . 2017. Approaches to understanding identity. The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom
- Hemphill, Libby, Wohn, Donghee Yvette, Fiesler, Casey , De Choudhury, Munmun , Matias, J Nathan. 2017. How to Handle Online Risks?: Discussing Content Curation and Moderation in Social Media. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems :1271-1276.
- Shapiro, Matthew D, Hemphill, Libby. 2017. Politicians and the Policy Agenda: Does Use of Twitter by the U.S. Congress Direct New York Times Content?. Policy & Internet 9(1):109-132.
- Hemphill, Libby, Goggins, Sean , Germonprez, Matt , Million, A J, Halfaker, Aaron . 2017. Advancing the OCDX: Building Social Computing Infrastructure. Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing :421-424.