Analysis and Theory

’22-’23 Visiting Scholar Elissa Redmiles co-authors this report outlining how platforms can mitigate the risk of image-based sexual abuse when consenting adults share intimate images.

Visiting Scholar Jeffrey Hall co-authors this article on how the level of engagement in live chats during video game streams may influence how participants respond to negative comments and behavior.

RSM Senior Research Coordinator Kalie Mayberry explores how AI may affect established online communities by changing how we search for information on the Internet.

Assembly Fellow Ben Grosser shares insights from his analysis of Minus, a finite social media platform he built to demonstrate a different kind of social media.

Assembly Fellow Nate Lubin joins the TechSequences podcast to discuss his research on methods that could help mitigate societal harms caused by social media.

Assembly Fellow Siva Mathiyazhagan and coauthors explore opportunities to use ChatGPT in social work and call for the development of a comprehensive ethical framework for using LLMs in research.

Visiting Scholar Jon Penney and BKC affiliate Bruce Schneier outline the ease with which AI could be used to issue legal microdirectives, but caution that such usage could render the law inscrutable over time.

Writing in the New York Times, Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick expresses concern over allowing “ideologically lopsided courts in far-flung federal jurisdictions” to dictate national Internet policy.

Assembly Fellow Nathaniel Lubin and his coauthors argue that transparency with regard to tech companies’ experimentation can lead to better and more informed regulation.

Visiting Scholar Gregory Gondwe joins Newsroom Robots to share how journalists across sub-Saharan Africa and the Global South use ChatGPT in their work, and explains how stereotypes and biases built into generative AI models put journalists at a disadvantage.