Samuel Hardman Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 308037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Hardman Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Hardman |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1014-4513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When the Algorithm Understands You (or Doesn’t)
During their daily media use, youth interact with algorithms. Drawing on the algorithm responsiveness process framework, this paper examines the co-construction of identity between youth and algorithmic media, focusing on perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR), perceived algorithm insensitivity (PAI), and algorithm training as sociotechnical processes that structure how LGBTQ+ youth perceive themselves. Study 1 ( N = 335), using six weekly diar…
Parenting the TikTok algorithm
The lonely algorithm problem
Many major social media companies have claimed that their social feed algorithms were designed to promote relational well-being and enhance social connection. This project tested part of these claims by investigating if algorithmic personalization predicted social connectedness on TikTok, where connecting with identity-relevant media content is prioritized over interpersonal interaction. Drawing from the algorithm responsiveness process, we ident…
Lonely algorithms
This research project addresses the role algorithms play in curating meaningful social connections on social media by examining perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR) and perceived algorithm insensitivity (PAI) within the framework of the bidirectional model of social internet use and loneliness. In study 1, a cross-sectional survey found that PAR and PAI on Instagram are both associated with loneliness, and that the association for PAR depends…
Who's Viewing My Post? Extending the Imagined Audience Process Model Toward Affordances and Self-Disclosure Goals on Social Media
This study investigates how individuals use the imagined audience to navigate context collapse and self-presentational concerns on Instagram. Drawing on the imagined audience process model, we analyze how structural (i.e., social media affordances) and individual factors (i.e., self-disclosure goals) impact the imagined audience composition along four dimensions: size, diversity, specificity, and perceived closeness. In a retrospective diary stud…
Algorithmic Folk Theories of Online Harassment
Online harassment is a public health concern, and social media algorithms are often proposed as a solution by social media companies. As online harassment grows, there are concerns that algorithms as content moderators fail to achieve their desired effect because of inabilities to contextualize social issues. This research contributes to the intersection of algorithms and online harassment by investigating the algorithmic folk theories of the vic…
The Spillover of Parenting Stress Onto Marital Qualities and Communication During Parenting Disagreements
This study engages relational turbulence theory to examine relationship functioning and communication among parents of teenagers. The hypotheses assessed associations between relational uncertainty and disrupted interdependence, and communication during conflict episodes related to childrearing, and considered parenting stress and coparenting alliance as antecedents of relationship parameters. Married, parents of teen children (n = 349) reported …
Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics
Researchers often focus on the benefits of adopting open science, yet questions remain whether the general public, as well as academics, value and trust studies consistent with open science compared to studies without open science. In three preregistered experiments (total N = 2,691), we find that the general public perceived open science research and researchers as more credible and trustworthy than non-open science counterparts (Studies 1 and 2…
An Initial Conceptualization of Algorithm Responsiveness
Human-algorithm interaction has emerged as a pressing area in social media research because algorithms curate and govern most communication on social media. In the present study, we focus on the perceptions people have of algorithms as it relates to their identity and goals. Bridging interpersonal communication theory into human-algorithm interactions, we explicate the concepts of perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR) and perceived algorithm i…
Always Available, Always Attached
In this study, we examine the effects of the near-constant use of digital media in everyday life on well-being in the context of close relationships. Building on media multiplexity and attachment perspectives, we argue that communication over a dyad’s media ecosystem, including face-to-face, text messaging, cellphone calls, e-mail, and instant messaging, creates connected availability. Connected availability is the perception that a partner is at…
Revisiting Media Multiplexity
This study investigates how people use multiple media in their romantic relationships, as well as the effects of using multiple media on relational closeness. Revisiting media multiplexity theory, we proposed multimedia frequency, multimedia disclosure, multimedia frequency variability, and multimedia disclosure variability as types of media multiplexity that vary as a function of relational closeness and geographic distance. A six-week longitudi…
Cyberbullying Bystander Intervention
Extending media multiplexity theory to the extended family
Guided by media multiplexity theory (MMT), this article reports results of an experimental study examining how participants say they would respond to hypothetical changes in media use (i.e. increasing or decreasing use frequency) by an extended family member. After contending that MMT addresses both media use patterns and expectations, we employed expectancy violations theory (EVT) to consider the extent to which communication satisfaction (CS) a…
Always Available, Always Attached
In this study, we examine the effects of the near-constant use of digital media in everyday life on well-being in the context of close relationships. Building on media multiplexity and attachment perspectives, we argue that communication over a dyad’s media ecosystem, including face-to-face, text messaging, cellphone calls, e-mail, and instant messaging, creates connected availability. Connected availability is the perception that a partner is at…
Cyberbullying Bystander Intervention
Lonely algorithms
This research project addresses the role algorithms play in curating meaningful social connections on social media by examining perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR) and perceived algorithm insensitivity (PAI) within the framework of the bidirectional model of social internet use and loneliness. In study 1, a cross-sectional survey found that PAR and PAI on Instagram are both associated with loneliness, and that the association for PAR depends…
An Initial Conceptualization of Algorithm Responsiveness
Human-algorithm interaction has emerged as a pressing area in social media research because algorithms curate and govern most communication on social media. In the present study, we focus on the perceptions people have of algorithms as it relates to their identity and goals. Bridging interpersonal communication theory into human-algorithm interactions, we explicate the concepts of perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR) and perceived algorithm i…
Extending media multiplexity theory to the extended family
Guided by media multiplexity theory (MMT), this article reports results of an experimental study examining how participants say they would respond to hypothetical changes in media use (i.e. increasing or decreasing use frequency) by an extended family member. After contending that MMT addresses both media use patterns and expectations, we employed expectancy violations theory (EVT) to consider the extent to which communication satisfaction (CS) a…
The lonely algorithm problem
Many major social media companies have claimed that their social feed algorithms were designed to promote relational well-being and enhance social connection. This project tested part of these claims by investigating if algorithmic personalization predicted social connectedness on TikTok, where connecting with identity-relevant media content is prioritized over interpersonal interaction. Drawing from the algorithm responsiveness process, we ident…
Who's Viewing My Post? Extending the Imagined Audience Process Model Toward Affordances and Self-Disclosure Goals on Social Media
This study investigates how individuals use the imagined audience to navigate context collapse and self-presentational concerns on Instagram. Drawing on the imagined audience process model, we analyze how structural (i.e., social media affordances) and individual factors (i.e., self-disclosure goals) impact the imagined audience composition along four dimensions: size, diversity, specificity, and perceived closeness. In a retrospective diary stud…
The Spillover of Parenting Stress Onto Marital Qualities and Communication During Parenting Disagreements
This study engages relational turbulence theory to examine relationship functioning and communication among parents of teenagers. The hypotheses assessed associations between relational uncertainty and disrupted interdependence, and communication during conflict episodes related to childrearing, and considered parenting stress and coparenting alliance as antecedents of relationship parameters. Married, parents of teen children (n = 349) reported …
Extending media multiplexity theory to the extended family
Guided by media multiplexity theory (MMT), this article reports results of an experimental study examining how participants say they would respond to hypothetical changes in media use (i.e. increasing or decreasing use frequency) by an extended family member. After contending that MMT addresses both media use patterns and expectations, we employed expectancy violations theory (EVT) to consider the extent to which communication satisfaction (CS) a…
Revisiting Media Multiplexity
This study investigates how people use multiple media in their romantic relationships, as well as the effects of using multiple media on relational closeness. Revisiting media multiplexity theory, we proposed multimedia frequency, multimedia disclosure, multimedia frequency variability, and multimedia disclosure variability as types of media multiplexity that vary as a function of relational closeness and geographic distance. A six-week longitudi…
Cyberbullying Bystander Intervention
Always Available, Always Attached
In this study, we examine the effects of the near-constant use of digital media in everyday life on well-being in the context of close relationships. Building on media multiplexity and attachment perspectives, we argue that communication over a dyad’s media ecosystem, including face-to-face, text messaging, cellphone calls, e-mail, and instant messaging, creates connected availability. Connected availability is the perception that a partner is at…
Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics
Researchers often focus on the benefits of adopting open science, yet questions remain whether the general public, as well as academics, value and trust studies consistent with open science compared to studies without open science. In three preregistered experiments (total N = 2,691), we find that the general public perceived open science research and researchers as more credible and trustworthy than non-open science counterparts (Studies 1 and 2…
An Initial Conceptualization of Algorithm Responsiveness
Human-algorithm interaction has emerged as a pressing area in social media research because algorithms curate and govern most communication on social media. In the present study, we focus on the perceptions people have of algorithms as it relates to their identity and goals. Bridging interpersonal communication theory into human-algorithm interactions, we explicate the concepts of perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR) and perceived algorithm i…
Algorithmic Folk Theories of Online Harassment
Online harassment is a public health concern, and social media algorithms are often proposed as a solution by social media companies. As online harassment grows, there are concerns that algorithms as content moderators fail to achieve their desired effect because of inabilities to contextualize social issues. This research contributes to the intersection of algorithms and online harassment by investigating the algorithmic folk theories of the vic…
The Spillover of Parenting Stress Onto Marital Qualities and Communication During Parenting Disagreements
This study engages relational turbulence theory to examine relationship functioning and communication among parents of teenagers. The hypotheses assessed associations between relational uncertainty and disrupted interdependence, and communication during conflict episodes related to childrearing, and considered parenting stress and coparenting alliance as antecedents of relationship parameters. Married, parents of teen children (n = 349) reported …
Parenting the TikTok algorithm
The lonely algorithm problem
Many major social media companies have claimed that their social feed algorithms were designed to promote relational well-being and enhance social connection. This project tested part of these claims by investigating if algorithmic personalization predicted social connectedness on TikTok, where connecting with identity-relevant media content is prioritized over interpersonal interaction. Drawing from the algorithm responsiveness process, we ident…
Lonely algorithms
This research project addresses the role algorithms play in curating meaningful social connections on social media by examining perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR) and perceived algorithm insensitivity (PAI) within the framework of the bidirectional model of social internet use and loneliness. In study 1, a cross-sectional survey found that PAR and PAI on Instagram are both associated with loneliness, and that the association for PAR depends…
Who's Viewing My Post? Extending the Imagined Audience Process Model Toward Affordances and Self-Disclosure Goals on Social Media
This study investigates how individuals use the imagined audience to navigate context collapse and self-presentational concerns on Instagram. Drawing on the imagined audience process model, we analyze how structural (i.e., social media affordances) and individual factors (i.e., self-disclosure goals) impact the imagined audience composition along four dimensions: size, diversity, specificity, and perceived closeness. In a retrospective diary stud…
When the Algorithm Understands You (or Doesn’t)
During their daily media use, youth interact with algorithms. Drawing on the algorithm responsiveness process framework, this paper examines the co-construction of identity between youth and algorithmic media, focusing on perceived algorithm responsiveness (PAR), perceived algorithm insensitivity (PAI), and algorithm training as sociotechnical processes that structure how LGBTQ+ youth perceive themselves. Study 1 ( N = 335), using six weekly diar…
Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social media (7 works) · World Wide Web (7 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (6 works) · Perception (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Algorithm (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works)