Joseph J. Trybala III

Boulder, Colorado

Joseph John Trybala III, an aspiring academic tilting at windmills, seeking to find meaning in work. I am a PhD student in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, advised by Dr. Jed Brubaker in the Identity Lab. I am disconnected from social media in a big way — the worst you’ll find me on is LinkedIn. Following an adage I can’t attribute to anyone, “Study what you don’t know,” I have historically done research on social media.

This github page is meant to serve as a kind of directory to all things me. Consider this a living document. It is not finished, as I am, and honestly should remain unfinished as long as possible. If I ever claim it’s finished, please call someone as I need help. Provided I haven’t been slacking, this should be relatively up to date with my projects.

news

Sep 01, 2025	Excited to begin my PhD in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, advised by Dr. Jed Brubaker!
May 01, 2025	Paper accepted at CHI ‘25! “Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms”
Sep 07, 2024	Officially graduated from Drexel University with a Masters in Data Science!
May 11, 2024	First published work! “Support in Short Form: Investigating TikTok Comments on Videos with #Harassment”
May 04, 2019	Graduated from Stockton University with a Bachelors in Computer Science and Information Systems!

selected publications

CHI EA

Support in Short Form: Investigating TikTok Comments on Videos with #Harassment

Atieh Armin, Joseph J Trybala, Jordyn Young, and 1 more author

In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{armin2024support,
  author = {Armin, Atieh and Trybala, Joseph J and Young, Jordyn and Razi, Afsaneh},
  title = {Support in Short Form: Investigating {TikTok} Comments on Videos with \#Harassment},
  booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  series = {CHI EA '24},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {1--8},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery,},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3613905.3650849},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650849},
}

CHI EA

Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms

Tyler Chang, Joseph J Trybala, Sharon Bassan, and 1 more author

In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{chang2025opaque,
  author = {Chang, Tyler and Trybala, Joseph J and Bassan, Sharon and Razi, Afsaneh},
  title = {Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms},
  booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  series = {CHI EA '25},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery,},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3706599.3719829},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719829},
}