kevin zheng

(he/they)

social media researcher • public interest technologist • fan of phoebe bridgers

phd student at the university of michigan school of information

[email protected] • schedule a meeting

bluesky • linkedin • github • last.fm • concert archives • record collection

cv • google scholar

current projects

• understanding how transparency tools and APIs can support value-driven social media platforms
• studying remembrance practices on digital obituary platforms (presenting at 4S 2025!)
• collecting and analyzing random samples of youtube (tubestats.org) and tiktok

affiliations

• advised by eric gilbert (professor of information) and christian sandvig (professor of digital media)
• member of comp.social and infra.lab
• member of the political economy and algorithms reading group

• affiliate, initiative for digital public infrastructure at the manning college of information and computer sciences, umass amherst

• researcher, media cloud

• member, coalition for independent technology research

p.s. refresh the page for another of my favorite artists!