About Me

My name is Jordan and I’m a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon advised by Haiyi Zhu and Sarah Fox. I graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

My research focuses on the values embedded within sociotechnical systems — such as online communities and generative AI models — as well as how members of marginalized communities negotiate these values. At the same time, I am interested in how the design of technology is mediated by the ways researchers and practitioners understand marginalized communities.

Research Interests: Critical HCI, Science & Technology Studies, Queer HCI, Social Computing, Responsible AI

Selected Publications

Jordan Taylor, Joel Mire, Franchesca Spektor, Alicia DeVrio, Maarten Sap, Haiyi Zhu, Sarah Fox. (2025). Un-Straightening Generative AI: How Queer Artists Surface and Challenge the Normativity of Generative AI Models. The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025). (To Appear)

Blakeley H. Payne,* Jordan Taylor,* Katta Spiel, Casey Fiesler. (2025). Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities. ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2025). *Co-First Author.

Jordan Taylor,* Ellen Simpsion,* Anh-Ton Tran,* Jed Brubaker, Sarah Fox, Haiyi Zhu. (2024). Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024). *Co-First Author.

Jordan Taylor, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Kenneth Holstein, Sarah Fox, Haiyi Zhu. (2024). Carefully Unmaking the “Marginalized User:” A Diffractive Analysis of a Gay Online Community. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).

Jordan Taylor, Amy Bruckman. (2024). Mitigating Epistemic Injustice: The Online Construction of a Bisexual Culture. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).

Selected Extended Abstracts

Anh-Ton Tran, Annabel Rothschild, Kay Kender, Ekat Osipova, Brian Kinnee, Jordan Taylor, Louie Søs Meyer, Oliver L. Haimson, Ann Light, Carl Disalvo. (2024). Making Trouble: Techniques for Queering Data and AI Systems. DIS 2024 Workshop.

Blakeley H. Payne, Jordan Taylor, Katta Spiel, Casey Fiesler. (2023). How to Ethically Engage Fat People in HCI Research. CSCW 2023 Poster. (Best Poster Award)

Logan Stapleton, Jordan Taylor, Sarah Fox, Tongshuang Wu, Haiyi Zhu. (2023). Seeing Seeds Beyond Weeds: Green Teaming Generative AI for Beneficial Uses. Shared at ICML Workshop on Challenges in Deployable Generative AI.

Magazine Articles

Jordan Taylor, Adinawa Adjagbodjou. DEI in Computing: Centering the Margins. (2022). XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 28, no. 4.

Jordan Taylor. Decoloniality in Computing: An Interview with Dipto Das. (2022). XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 28, no. 4.

Selected Press

CMU Technologists Look to a More Inclusive Future. (2024). Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science News.

How Should AI Depict Marginalized Communities? (2024). Carnegie Mellon University Newsletter (The Piper).

Louisiana Law Requiring Proof of ID for Porn Site Access Has Privacy Advocates Worried. (2023). Marketplace Tech.

Selected Teaching

CV

Updated CV (last edited July 2024)