After reading 700+ papers that use Reddit data, we qualitatively analyzed the < 150 that had ANY engagement with research ethics. The result is a set of recommendations for ethical considerations in researching Reddit (and other public internet content). cfiesler.medium.com/how-to-remembe…

In this new blog post, I argue that to improve online platforms, we need to study content curation practices. That is pretty hard to do, but we should do it anyway :)

doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/content-cura…

Interested in News Innovation and AI? Our study on news engineering teams at The Washington Post is now officially published in an issue of Digital Journalism ✨

Congrats to Sterling Williams-Ceci, a Cornell Information Science doctoral student, on placing second in Cornell Grad School's Three Minute Thesis Competition! 🥈👏

⭐️NEW PUB⭐️

🖥“Predicting Political Attitudes from Web Tracking Data”💻

This study uses #digital tracing to determine whether website choices can predict #political attitudes.

By: Drs. Nora Kirkizh, Ulloa, Sebastian Stier, & Jürgen Pfeffer 💎 @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very excited to share our #CHI2024 paper on the ✨Situate AI Guidebook✨,

a toolkit designed in collaboration with public sector agencies & community advocacy groups, to scaffold early-stage deliberations around *whether or not* to move forward w/ developing a proposed AI tool🧵

Now out in @nature: Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lisamesseri and edited by the supremely talented Mary Elizabeth rdcu.be/dAv39🧵

Honored and excited to announce a new piece with
Jennifer John in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, in which we identify emotional and informational needs expressed by abortion-seekers post-Dobbs, and examine how r/abortion addressed these needs. Read here!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/P…

***New Paper***
Many of you are familiar with urban scaling, the idea that outcomes such as innovation and crime grow super-linearly with city size. But what if I told you that the 'network of cities' was better at explaining some of these outcomes?

In a new paper led by

Fascinating work! We will be exploring related questions, including how to empirically validate LLM labels if crowd workers can be expected to perform WORSE than LLMs, in our workshop on LLMs as Research Tools at #CHI2024 .

sites.google.com/view/llmsindat…

The deadline to apply for this #chi2024 hybrid workshop about LLMs as Research Tools is ***TODAY***

Come ideate on the future of LLMs in our research processes with us!

2-4 page position papers/works-in progress welcome forms.gle/yAktozYNn3X3xK…

idi.provost.northeastern.edu/the-2024-compu… The 2024 Computation + Journalism Symposium will be held this fall in Boston!

New Reuters Institute factsheet by me that asks: How many news websites block generative AI like ChatGPT and Gemini from using their content to train their models?

It depends on the country. Very large differences in how many top news sites are blocking, and how soon they started.

🙌 Submission deadline for our #CHI2024 workshop extended until 2/26 (Monday)! ⏱️There's still time to submit:
sites.google.com/view/llmsindat…

NEW ISSUE ALERT! 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 Vol 12 Issue 1 is out! Guest edited by Agnes Gulyas and Kristy Hess, this special issue looks at local digital journalism. It features an editorial, an introduction and five articles. Access them below. 👇
➡️tandfonline.com/toc/rdij20/12/1

📢One more week to submit!! Join a discussion at our workshop about LLM use in data work.

I'm creating some (paid) case studies of folks who diversified their rev streams away from or in addition to journalism for a workshop I'm teaching.

Is this you?

Comment below with what your diversification looked like and I'll reach out if it's a fit!

Is the YouTube algorithm radicalizing us?

Our new PNAS paper says: probably not!

But why should you trust this paper rather than other papers or reports saying otherwise?

Because we came up with a way to disentangle the causal effect of the algorithm.

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

So honoured to receive this award for work with madihaza !! I am proud of our focus on privacy-preserving data analysis in this study, and our early approach to qualitative data analysis with LLMs. More to come…

The Special Issue “Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces” is out Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication! This project started in ICA-Paris'22. Thx to Agnes LINK-NU for co-editing w me & to Dr. Nicole Ellison & Dr. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen for their vision. The issue includes seven fantastic articles, more here: academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/2…