David W. McDonald

Making Sense of the Weather, Together: Collaborative Sensemaking in Severe Weather Livestreams

This paper examines collaborative sensemaking during severe weather events through the emerging phenomenon of “weatherfluencers” or content creators who livestream meteorological interpretation on platforms like YouTube. Drawing from sensemaking theory, crisis informatics, and pl...

Computer-Aided Tagging on Wikimedia Commons: Designing for Human–AI Collaboration in Open Knowledge Work

This study investigates Wikimedia Commons contributors’ lived experiences with the Computer-Aided Tagging (CAT) tool, an AI-assisted image tagging system designed to improve Commons’ discoverability, searchability, accessibility, and multilingual support. Using a qualitative anal...