Shaniece Cri
Biographic Data
| ID | 905135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaniece Cri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaniece |
| FAMILY NAME | Cri |
| SIGNATURE | CRI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Furman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2470-5377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating identity in digital spaces: An exploratory study of social engagement and interactions
Introduction: Through a focus group approach in an exploratory qualitative study, we aim to understand how engagement on digital platforms varies by social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and religion, and the respondents' response to both positive and negative interactions. Methods: This study involved data collection from six focus groups, two included members of the general population, two focused on the ex…
It Is Not Simply Black and White: A Qualitative Study Unpacking How Women Understand Racism and Discrimination
The aim of this exploratory focus group study is to examine how Black women, White women, and White women involved in an anti-racism group perceive race and racism in daily life and the strategies they use or recommend to protect themselves and others. While the primary emphasis is on racial identity and racism, the analysis also considers how these dynamics intersect with gender for women across racial groups. A purposive sample of 30 participan…
Spanking or arrest: Caregiver perceptions of the No Hit Zone policy and poster in pediatric clinics
No Hit Zones (NHZs) represent a policy to prevent corporal punishment (CP) and designate specific spaces where hitting is not permitted, including a caregiver spanking a child. For the current study, the aims were to utilize focus groups to 1) understand caregivers’ perceptions of the NHZ policy, and 2) explore the impressions of the NHZ poster. This study is the first to qualitatively examine caregivers’ perspective of NHZs in pediatric medical …
"HIV Stigma Exists" - Exploring ChatGPT's HIV Advice by Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity
Background Stigma and discrimination are associated with HIV persistence. Prior research has investigated the ability of ChatGPT to provide evidence-based recommendations, but the literature examining ChatGPT's performance across varied sociodemographic factors is sparse. The aim of this study is to understand how ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0 provide HIV-related guidance related to race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity; and if and ho…
Vigilance and Protection: How Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, Latina, and Middle Eastern Women Cope with Racism
Solidarity and strife after the Atlanta spa shootings: A mixed methods study characterizing Twitter discussions by qualitative analysis and machine learning
Background On March 16, 2021, a white man shot and killed eight victims, six of whom were Asian women at Atlanta-area spa and massage parlors. The aims of the study were to: (1) qualitatively summarize themes of tweets related to race, ethnicity, and racism immediately following the Atlanta spa shootings, and (2) examine temporal trends in expressions hate speech and solidarity before and after the Atlanta spa shootings using a new methodology fo…
Racism During Pregnancy and Birthing: Experiences from Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, Latina, and Middle Eastern Women
Examining Exposure to Messaging, Content, and Hate Speech from Partisan News Social Media Posts on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
We investigated the content of liberal and conservative news media Facebook posts on race and ethnic health disparities. A total of 3,327,360 liberal and conservative news Facebook posts from the United States (US) from January 2015 to May 2022 were collected from the Crowd Tangle platform and filtered for race and health-related keywords. Qualitative content analysis was conducted on a random sample of 1750 liberal and 1750 conservative posts. P…
Twitter Fingers and Echo Chambers: Exploring Expressions and Experiences of Online Racism Using Twitter
Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the Covid-19 Vaccine on Twitter
Our analysis demonstrates that Twitter can provide nuances about multiple viewpoints on the vaccine related to race and ethnicity and can be beneficial in contributing to insights for public health messaging
Progress and push-back: How the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd impacted public discourse on race and racism on Twitter
Food cultures and aging: A qualitative study of grandparents’ food perceptions and influence of food choice on younger generations
Objective: To explore food perceptions among grandparents and understand the influence of these perceptions on food choice for the younger generations in their family. Design: Qualitative methodology, thematic analysis of the transcripts from fourteen focus groups. Setting: Grandparents in the southern region of the United States. Subjects: Participants were fifty-eight Black, Hispanic, and White grandparents, predominantly women (72%), ranging i…
Exploring U.S. Shifts in Anti-Asian Sentiment with the Emergence of Covid-19
Background: Anecdotal reports suggest a rise in anti-Asian racial attitudes and discrimination in response to COVID-19. Racism can have significant social, economic, and health impacts, but there has been little systematic investigation of increases in anti-Asian prejudice. Methods: We utilized Twitter's Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) to collect 3,377,295 U.S. race-related tweets from November 2019-June 2020. Sentiment analysis…
Pride, Love, and Twitter Rants: Combining Machine Learning and Qualitative Techniques to Understand What Our Tweets Reveal about Race in the US
Objective : Describe variation in sentiment of tweets using race-related terms and identify themes characterizing the social climate related to race. Methods : We applied a Stochastic Gradient Descent Classifier to conduct sentiment analysis of 1,249,653 US tweets using race-related terms from 2015-2016. To evaluate accuracy, manual labels were compared against computer labels for a random subset of 6600 tweets. We conducted qualitative content a…
Media Competition Implementation for the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study (MA-Cord): Adoption and Reach
The Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study (MA-CORD) was a multi-level, multi-sector community intervention with a media competition component to provide an overarching synergy and promote awareness of target behaviors to reduce childhood obesity. Students participating in the media competition were tasked with developing videos, song/rap lyrics, and artwork that reflected the goals. The aim of this study is to document the …
A Cascade of Champions: A Qualitative Study about the MA-Cord Media Competition Implementation
A media competition was part of the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (MA-CORD) Study. Criss et al., previously outlined the development and implementation of the competition, including variation in reach and adoption of the intervention across schools and afterschool programs. In this qualitative study, we examine community, provider, and organizational factors that explain the variation of media competition reach in school …
The Role of Health Information Sources in Decision-Making Among Hispanic Mothers During Their Children’s First 1000 Days of Life
Exploring U.S. Shifts in Anti-Asian Sentiment with the Emergence of Covid-19
Background: Anecdotal reports suggest a rise in anti-Asian racial attitudes and discrimination in response to COVID-19. Racism can have significant social, economic, and health impacts, but there has been little systematic investigation of increases in anti-Asian prejudice. Methods: We utilized Twitter's Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) to collect 3,377,295 U.S. race-related tweets from November 2019-June 2020. Sentiment analysis…
Progress and push-back: How the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd impacted public discourse on race and racism on Twitter
The Role of Health Information Sources in Decision-Making Among Hispanic Mothers During Their Children’s First 1000 Days of Life
Media Competition Implementation for the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study (MA-Cord): Adoption and Reach
The Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study (MA-CORD) was a multi-level, multi-sector community intervention with a media competition component to provide an overarching synergy and promote awareness of target behaviors to reduce childhood obesity. Students participating in the media competition were tasked with developing videos, song/rap lyrics, and artwork that reflected the goals. The aim of this study is to document the …
A Cascade of Champions: A Qualitative Study about the MA-Cord Media Competition Implementation
A media competition was part of the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (MA-CORD) Study. Criss et al., previously outlined the development and implementation of the competition, including variation in reach and adoption of the intervention across schools and afterschool programs. In this qualitative study, we examine community, provider, and organizational factors that explain the variation of media competition reach in school …
Pride, Love, and Twitter Rants: Combining Machine Learning and Qualitative Techniques to Understand What Our Tweets Reveal about Race in the US
Objective : Describe variation in sentiment of tweets using race-related terms and identify themes characterizing the social climate related to race. Methods : We applied a Stochastic Gradient Descent Classifier to conduct sentiment analysis of 1,249,653 US tweets using race-related terms from 2015-2016. To evaluate accuracy, manual labels were compared against computer labels for a random subset of 6600 tweets. We conducted qualitative content a…
Food cultures and aging: A qualitative study of grandparents’ food perceptions and influence of food choice on younger generations
Objective: To explore food perceptions among grandparents and understand the influence of these perceptions on food choice for the younger generations in their family. Design: Qualitative methodology, thematic analysis of the transcripts from fourteen focus groups. Setting: Grandparents in the southern region of the United States. Subjects: Participants were fifty-eight Black, Hispanic, and White grandparents, predominantly women (72%), ranging i…
Exploring U.S. Shifts in Anti-Asian Sentiment with the Emergence of Covid-19
Background: Anecdotal reports suggest a rise in anti-Asian racial attitudes and discrimination in response to COVID-19. Racism can have significant social, economic, and health impacts, but there has been little systematic investigation of increases in anti-Asian prejudice. Methods: We utilized Twitter's Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) to collect 3,377,295 U.S. race-related tweets from November 2019-June 2020. Sentiment analysis…
Twitter Fingers and Echo Chambers: Exploring Expressions and Experiences of Online Racism Using Twitter
Advocacy, Hesitancy, and Equity: Exploring U.S. Race-Related Discussions of the Covid-19 Vaccine on Twitter
Our analysis demonstrates that Twitter can provide nuances about multiple viewpoints on the vaccine related to race and ethnicity and can be beneficial in contributing to insights for public health messaging
Progress and push-back: How the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd impacted public discourse on race and racism on Twitter
Solidarity and strife after the Atlanta spa shootings: A mixed methods study characterizing Twitter discussions by qualitative analysis and machine learning
Background On March 16, 2021, a white man shot and killed eight victims, six of whom were Asian women at Atlanta-area spa and massage parlors. The aims of the study were to: (1) qualitatively summarize themes of tweets related to race, ethnicity, and racism immediately following the Atlanta spa shootings, and (2) examine temporal trends in expressions hate speech and solidarity before and after the Atlanta spa shootings using a new methodology fo…
Racism During Pregnancy and Birthing: Experiences from Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, Latina, and Middle Eastern Women
Examining Exposure to Messaging, Content, and Hate Speech from Partisan News Social Media Posts on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
We investigated the content of liberal and conservative news media Facebook posts on race and ethnic health disparities. A total of 3,327,360 liberal and conservative news Facebook posts from the United States (US) from January 2015 to May 2022 were collected from the Crowd Tangle platform and filtered for race and health-related keywords. Qualitative content analysis was conducted on a random sample of 1750 liberal and 1750 conservative posts. P…
Spanking or arrest: Caregiver perceptions of the No Hit Zone policy and poster in pediatric clinics
No Hit Zones (NHZs) represent a policy to prevent corporal punishment (CP) and designate specific spaces where hitting is not permitted, including a caregiver spanking a child. For the current study, the aims were to utilize focus groups to 1) understand caregivers’ perceptions of the NHZ policy, and 2) explore the impressions of the NHZ poster. This study is the first to qualitatively examine caregivers’ perspective of NHZs in pediatric medical …
"HIV Stigma Exists" - Exploring ChatGPT's HIV Advice by Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity
Background Stigma and discrimination are associated with HIV persistence. Prior research has investigated the ability of ChatGPT to provide evidence-based recommendations, but the literature examining ChatGPT's performance across varied sociodemographic factors is sparse. The aim of this study is to understand how ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0 provide HIV-related guidance related to race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity; and if and ho…
Vigilance and Protection: How Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, Latina, and Middle Eastern Women Cope with Racism
Navigating identity in digital spaces: An exploratory study of social engagement and interactions
Introduction: Through a focus group approach in an exploratory qualitative study, we aim to understand how engagement on digital platforms varies by social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and religion, and the respondents' response to both positive and negative interactions. Methods: This study involved data collection from six focus groups, two included members of the general population, two focused on the ex…
It Is Not Simply Black and White: A Qualitative Study Unpacking How Women Understand Racism and Discrimination
The aim of this exploratory focus group study is to examine how Black women, White women, and White women involved in an anti-racism group perceive race and racism in daily life and the strategies they use or recommend to protect themselves and others. While the primary emphasis is on racial identity and racism, the analysis also considers how these dynamics intersect with gender for women across racial groups. A purposive sample of 30 participan…
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Racism (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (7 works) · Social media (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Ethnic group (5 works)