A Better Burst
Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, argues in a new co-authored pre-print, that today’s AI landscape looks a lot like past infrastructure booms—and that this moment is an opportunity to realign it with the public interest.
When Influencers Delegate Replies: How Social AI Agents Shape User Engagement
Steven Johnson, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, co-authored a new paper that he hopes will contribute to the emerging scholarship on the understanding of platform-enabled delegation of social relationship management to AI agents — which we refer to as Social AI Agents.
The case for stakeholder-driven AI auditing in automatic speech recognition
Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, has contributed to new work in Nature Machine Intelligence on why it is essential to center stakeholder-derived "ground truth" in AI.
Digital Resilience for the Climate Crisis: A Multi-Perspective Analysis
Steven Johnson, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, is among the scholars who have contributed to joint research commentary in Management Information Systems Quarterly exploring multiple perspectives on the potential use of digital technologies to improve organizational resilience in the context of climate change.
Media Rurality
Megan Wiessner, DTD Lab postdoc, has contributed a chapter to a new book investigating the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings. The book will be released in mid-April and can be pre-ordered now.
How will chatbots and AI-generated content influence the 2026 elections?
David Nemer, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, contributed to a new report by the newspaper O Globo about the influence of Chatbots and AI-generated content in the 2026 elections.
Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It’s embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organize our most intimate lives and our interactions with the most fundamental institutions of society, from government agencies to banks and schools. In these linkages are embedded assumptions about who we are, what we can do, and where we belong.
The Boundaries of Evidence-based Policymaking for Night-time Governance
Jess Reia, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, has a new paper out in which they examine the challenges posed by big data and AI-generated content to decision-making processes.
Digital construction comes to the Pacific Northwest: Timber and the landscapes of automation
Megan Wiessner, DTD Lab postdoctoral research fellow, has contributed an article to an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) special issue, "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn".
Online propagation of emotions: A study of resharing dynamics on social media following celebrity suicides
Ehsan Nouri, DTD Lab postdoctoral research fellow, co-authors a paper about emotional contagion on social media, particularly following shocking and tragic events, which often unfolds through widespread resharing, amplifying affective responses that are typically intense and negative.
