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Katie GachÌýis a digital ethnographer studying human experiences on social platforms. For her dissertation, she is researching how people manage post-mortem social media data. Her work has directly influencedÌýchanges to Facebook's memorialization options,Ìýand has examined how people respond to celebrity deaths. Katie earned a master's degreeÌýin Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University in 2015, and a Bachelor of ArtsÌýin cultural anthropology at Kansas State University in 2009. Her advisor isÌýJed Brubaker,Ìýan assistant professor inÌýthe Information Science Department.

For more information about Katie, view herÌýpage.ÌýÂ鶹ÒùÔº'Ìýpersonal pages are rarely updated after graduation.

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Publications:

Katie Z. Gach and Jed R. Brubaker. 2020. Experiences of Trust in Postmortem Profile Management. Trans. Soc. Comput. 3, 1, Article 2 (February 2020), 26 pages. DOI:

Katie Z. Gach,ÌýCasey Fiesler, andÌýJed R. Brubaker. 2017.Ìý. Proc.ÌýACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 47, 18 pages. DOI:ÌýÌý(December 2017).

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