Shanley Jule Corvite

Shanley Corvite is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, where her work focuses on how social technologies can contribute to young adults’ career development. Her dissertation specifically explores how social media use can expose young adults to career messages, shaping how they make sense of the working world and subsequent expectations and interests. She is an experienced qualitative researcher, with several years of experience conducting interviews, content analyses, and survey studies. She has a strong record of publications and presentations in the fields of human-computer interaction/social computing and computer-supported cooperative work. Throughout her research career, she developed a passion for exploring how technology can support education and workforce development initiatives through research.

Pronouns

she/her/hers

Dissertation title

Social Media's Role in Career Development During Young Adulthood

Dissertation abstract

As the next generation of young adults enters the workforce, it is essential to examine how they develop career interests, aspirations, and ultimately make career decisions. Social media has become a pervasive feature of everyday life, exposing young people to a wide range of ideas and narratives about work. My dissertation explores how this exposure may shape how young adults make sense of work, value different careers, and form expectations about the workplace through a multi-phase project. Through a content analysis of social media posts, think-aloud sessions with young adults, and a survey study, my dissertation identifies career messages from social media, how young adults make sense of the working world through these online career messages, and compare these messages with those from traditional information sources. By highlighting how social media use influences young people’s socialization into the working world, my dissertation builds on theory and empirical research in human-computer interaction and social computing, vocational psychology, and communication and media studies.

Areas of interest

Young Adulthood, Career Development/Vocational Psychology, Social Media Use & Effects

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information, University of Michigan School of Information, 2022 
PhD in Information, University of Michigan School of Information, Anticipated 2027

Selected publications

Corvite, S., & Hui, J. (2026). Career Advice, Norms, and Aspirations on Social Media: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Short-Form TikTok Videos. ACM Transactions on Social Computing. [forthcoming]

Corvite, S., Matz, R. L., Mills, M., & Hui, J. (2026, April). Instructional Mechanisms for Professional Writing: A Comparison of Scaffolded Annotation and ChatGPT. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-18). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3790915

Corvite, S., & Hui, J. (2024). Social media as a lens into careers during a changing world of work. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), 1-27. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3687053

Corvite, S., Roemmich, K., Rosenberg, T. I., & Andalibi, N. (2023). Data subjects' perspectives on emotion artificial intelligence use in the workplace: A relational ethics lens. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-38. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579600

Haimson, O. L., Carter, A. J., Corvite, S., Wheeler, B., Wang, L., Liu, T., & Lige, A. (2021). The major life events taxonomy: Social readjustment, social media information sharing, and online network separation during times of life transition. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(7), 933-947. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24455