Social media platforms shape public discourse through two fundamental design choices: platform architecture and recommendation algorithm.
Academic Research
The epistemologies of trust: conflicting worldviews in the “Trustworthy AI” discourse
The global policy landscape has coalesced around “Trustworthy AI” as a normative goal for AI governance and development.
COVID-19 vaccine uptake among U.S. Latino adults was slower than that of other groups during the pandemic.
By eliminating safeguards against algorithmic bias and recasting equity as an ideological threat to innovation, government policies facilitate exclusion.
Explaining Twitter’s inability to effectively moderate content during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, major social media platforms removed content that violated their medical misinformation policies.
ChatGPT-Based Chatbot for Help Quitting Smoking via Text Messaging: An Interventional Study
Large language model chatbots such as ChatGPT may be able to provide support to people who smoke cigarettes and are trying to quit.
Why Depolarization is Hard: Evaluating Attempts to Decrease Partisan Animosity in America
Affective polarization is a corrosive force in American politics.
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework
Sceptics charge that ordinary citizens are not competent enough to sustain democracy. The researchers challenge this assessment in this paper.
Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework
The researchers examine a new typology for assessing citizen competence.
Perceptions of the European Union (EU) in the United States (US) have changed notably over the past decade.
Misinformation Research Continues to be Urgent Science
By one account, roughly 70% of Americans regard misinformation as a major threat, outpacing fears about climate change and infectious disease.
Coordinated link sharing on Facebook
Malicious actors regularly attempt to manipulate social media using coordinated posting.
Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio
The goal of this paper is to deepen the clarity of Benkler, Farris, and Robert’s “propaganda feedback loop” concept.
The Dangers of AI Nationalism and BeggarThy-Neighbour Policies
As they attempt to nurture and govern AI, some nations are acting in ways that – with or without direct intent – discriminate among foreign market actors.
Participant engagement in a moderated Facebook group to promote COVID-19 vaccination
Interventions with high levels of engagement have been found to be more effective at changing health behavior than those with low levels.
Leveraging International Standards to Protect U.S. Consumers Online, No Congress Required
For decades, the U.S. Congress has been unable to pass comprehensive online platform regulation.
Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right
The Contributors explain democratic backsliding in the 21st century through a cross-disciplinary engagement between democracy scholars & data scientists.
Pressing Play on Politics: Quantitative Description of YouTube
The researchers present a large-scale quantitative analysis of anglophone politics channels on YouTube.
Large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence chatbots using generative language can offer smoking cessation information and advice.
Explaining Twitter’s inability to reduce vaccine misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Users dissatisfied with exposure to objectionable online content have begun to migrate en masse to new social media platforms.