New paper with Gabriela Czarnek, @dgrand.bsky.social and @adamberinsky.bsky.social out in Political Behavior! Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We examine the dynamics of citizens’ trust in public media during government-led efforts to implement major media reforms in a highly polarized context using two cross-sectional experiments. After Pol...
Three BIG shifting dynamics:
• Algorithms are dominating.
• AI content generation is breaking the link between platforms and human content creation.
• Public posting is decreasing dramatically, with conversations moving to non-public facing channels.
Read more:
Ashley Blum
New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5)
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Very excited to share that I'll be joining Social and Decision Sciences @cmu.edu as an assistant professor in the Fall!
So grateful to everyone who has supported me, particularly my amazing advisors @dgrand.bsky.social & Rahul Bhui, family, & friends!
Humanity's ability to know, reason, judge, and act well is the foundation of science, democracy, crisis response, & management of AI itself.
AI poses serious risks to that foundation.
New paper on epistemic risks by 30 experts calls for attention and proposes solutions. Link in thread.
