Press & Public Scholarship
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OpEds and Popular Press Articles
Research Coverage
- Science – 4 November 2022 – As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight
- Inside Higher Ed – 4 November 2022 – #AcademicTwitter will endure, for now
- The Atlantic – 2 November 2022 – Are the libs really leaving?
- Fast Company – 1 November 2022 – Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators
- The Verge – 15 August 2022 – Archive of Our Own’s 15-year journey from blog post to fanfiction powerhouse
- Stanford Social Innovation Review – 30 June 2022 – The Good Web
- The New York Times – 3 May 2022 – Black Twitter is not a place, it’s a practice
- WIRED – 24 November 2021 – What are you going to tweet after you die?
- The Denver Post – 24 November 2021 – Black Twitter is the modern-day Green Book, CU Boulder researcher finds
- Boulder Weekly – 18 November 2021 – A ‘Green Book’ for the digital age
- Protocol – 19 March 2021 – Platforms vs. PhDs: How tech giants court and crush the people who study them
- CNN – 4 February 2021 – This new tool can tell you if your online photos are helping train facial recognition systems
- Forbes – 17 January 2021 – Why Ethics Matter For Social Media, Silicon Valley And Every Tech Industry Leader
- Reclaim the Net – 2 July 2020 – Review of the DMCA fails to address problems with false copyright claims
- Teen Vogue – 24 June 2020 – On K-Pop Fans, Political Activism, and the Nature of Nuance
- The Coloradan – 1 February 2020 – Fanfiction Rising
- Stanford Daily – 8 November 2019 – Complexity Theory: I am just an engineer!
- Wired – 9 September 2019 – What scifi can teach computer science about ethics
- The Atlantic – 27 June 2019 – You No Longer Own Your Face
- Slate – 3 June 2019 – Should researchers be allowed to use YouTube videos and tweets?
- Fast Company – 28 March 2019 – What to change big tech? Change what classes are required for a computer science degree.
- The New Yorker – 11 March 2019 – The challenge of preserving the historical record of #MeToo
- LA Times – 3 December 2018 – Tumblr Is Banning Adult Content, and It’s Already Not Going Over Well
- The Washington Post – 28 August 2018 – When the ancient taboo of speaking ill of the dead goes online
- Wired – 1 August 2018 – The sadness of deleting your old tweets
- FiveThirtyEight – 27 July 2018 – Your tweets are somehow worthy of scientific study
- Lab Manager Magazine – 16 April 2018 – The data debacle: Most unaware their tweets are being studied
- Lexington Herald Ledger – 12 April 2018 – Researchers use your tweets without your ok
- Slate – 29 March 2018 – Why did fans flee LiveJournal, and where will they go after Tumblr?
- KUNC Radio – 22 March 2018 – Your tweets can be used for science – with or without your permission, CU Boulder explains
- The Denver Post – 21 March 2018 – CU Boulder Study: Majority of Twitter Users Don’t Know Researchers Collect, Analyze Their Tweets
- The Daily Camera – 21 March 2018 – CU Boulder study probes ethics of researchers’ use of Twitter data
- Westword – 14 March 2018 – Stephen Hawking and celebrity deaths: Trolls, tears and social media
- The Daily Camera – 23 September 2017 – At CU Boulder, Teaching Tech Companies, Researchers, How To Use Big Data Ethically
- The Denver Post – 18 September 2017 – Researchers Are Studying Your Social Media; What Do You Think of That?
- Fast Company – 27 August 2017 – Bots Are Scraping Your Data For Cash Amid Murky Law and Ethics
- Men’s Health – 22 September 2016 – Why You Should Read the Terms of Service
- The Learned Fangirl – 12 August 2016 – Creating (and Protecting) Community Through Private Groups
- The Escapist – 12 December 2014 – Copyright Isn’t Just Confusing, It Can Result In Us Seeing Less Art
- The New York Times – 28 April 2014 – Didn’t Read Those Terms of Service? Here’s What You Agreed to Give Up
- Engadget – 17 April 2014 – It’s Not Just You: Terms of Service Really Are Confusing, Study Finds
Press Mentions & Quotes
- NBC News – 17 November 2022 – This TikToker is ‘consensually doxxing’ people to teach them about social media privacy
- The New Stack – 9 November 2022 – Fear and layoffs: How to cope with tech’s uncertain times
- The Washington Post – 5 November 2022 – With Musk at the helm, tweeting at the boss may actually change Twitter
- Daily Camera – 4 November 2022 – Impact of layoffs at Boulder Twitter office hard to quantify
- New York Times – 2 November 2022 – Tumblr says clothing is optional again
- Protocol – 31 October 2022 – 2022 midterms will be a major test for TikTok
- Times Higher Ed – 27 October 2022 – What I learned from 3 years researching TikTok
- The Boston Pilot – 27 October 2022 – Summit explores role of ethics in development of artificial intelligence
- The Daily Beast – 23 October 2022 – Is it time to rethink the rules of fanfiction?
- The Washington Post – 22 October 2022 – Sorry you went viral
- The Grid – 4 October 2022 – The rise of the natural disaster influencer
- TechCrunch – 3 August 2022 – Netflix’s lawsuit against the ‘Bridgerton Musical’ could change online fandom
- The Daily Beast – 15 September 2022 – Image Generators Like DALL-E Are Mimicking Our Worst Biases
- EdTech – 27 June 2022 – 30 Higher Education IT Influencers to Follow
- Buzzfeed – 16 June 2022 – I don’t Google anymore; I TikTok
- CNN – 7 June 2022 – How a fake juror in Depp vs. Heard went viral on TikTok
- Jezebel – 6 May 2022 – TikTokers say their pro-abortion content is being censored
- WIRED – 4 May 2022 – Europe’s new law will force secretive TikTok to open up
- Yahoo News – 7 April 2022 – Out of prison, TikTok influencers are reshaping how we think about life behind bars
- CBC – 4 March 2022 – How TikTok’s design helps turn ordinary people into villains
- Forbes – 24 February 2022 – Suicide Hotline Left Ethics Board Out Of The Loop About Data-Sharing With For-Profit Spinoff
- Business Insider – 23 January 2022 – A social media app just for ‘females’ intentionally excludes trans women — and some say its face-recognition AI discriminates against women of color, too
- The Washington Post – 23 January 2022 – Couch Guy to West Elm Caleb: Inside the making of a TikTok Villain
- Insider – 21 January 2022 – TikTok helped dozens of NYC women realize they had dated the same man. The ‘West Elm Caleb’ phenomenon shows the dark side of both dating apps and internet sleuthing
- The Washington Post – 17 December 2021 – Law enforcement, schools downplay unconfirmed TikTok shooting threats that prompted tighter campus security
- Fortune – 14 December 2021 – A View from A.I.’s Biggest Conference
- Phys.org – 17 November 2021 – Researchers study TikTok platform’s use in academia
- The Denver Post – 10 November 2021 – Want companies to stop curating your social media, internet results? Ken Buck’s new bill is meant to help
- Inverse – 12 October 2021 – Is Captain America bisexual? Why a queer Steve Rogers matters
- Rolling Stone – 15 July 2021 – A Video Spreading Conspiracy Theories About a Satanic Sex-Trafficking Ring Is Going Viral
- MIT Technology Review – 13 July 2021 – Welcome to TikTok’s Endless Cycle of Censorship and Mistakes
- The Washington Post – 20 May 2021 – Twitter drops automated image-cropping tool after determining it was biased
- Elle – 16 March 2021 – Inside the Peloverse
- Scientific America – 17 December 2020 – A Smile at a Wedding and a Cheer at a Soccer Game Are Alike the World Over
- The Straits Times – 8 November 2020 – As ex-president, Trump will no longer enjoy immunity from social media rules
- Yahoo Finance – 3 September 2020 – Facebook to ban new political ads on cusp of U.S. election
- Washington Post – 25 August 2020 – Burnout, splinter factions and deleted posts: Unpaid online moderators struggle to maintain divided communities
- Business Insider – 24 July 2020 – A researcher created a ‘Weird A.I. Yancovic’ algorithm that generates parodies of existing songs, and now the record industry is accusing him of copyright violations
- Vice – 23 July 2020 – The record industry is going after parody songs written by an algorithm
- The Colorado Gazette – 13 July 2020 – Hate speech is a difficult constitutional conversation
- YR Media – 9 July 2020 – Is Twitter trolling us? Why voice tweets are already problematic
- Marketplace – 6 July 2020 – Tech companies should make it someone’s job to think about ethics
- OneZero – 22 June 2020 – A tweet filled with porn noises demonstrates Twitter is unprepared for audio
- PC Mag – 27 April 2020 – Disney power grab for #Maythe4th Star Wars content sparks Twitter rebellion
- Daily Dot – 24 April 2020 – How safe is Zoom? These are the security issues around the software
- Tech Crunch – 5 September 2019 – Teaching ethics in computer science the right way
- Forbes – 31 March 2019 – Too Many Tabs Open: Save Your PC or Mac From Overheating
- The Nation – 21 February 2019 – Fixing Tech’s Ethics Problem Starts in the Classroom
- Wired – 12 February 2019 – The Redditors Who Reclaimed Vile Subs
- Wired – 21 January 2019 – For women job seekers, networking like a man isn’t enough
- University Affairs – 11 December 2018 – Why Great Applicants Get Turned Down
- Polygon – 10 December 2018 – Despite the looming fear of social media exodus, many fandom Tumblr users will staunchly remain on the platform
- Wired UK – 7 December 2018 – Tumblr’s Porn Ban Is Another Internet Blackout for Sex Workers
- The Verge – 6 December 2018 – Tumblr’s Porn Ban Could Be Its Downfall – After All, It Happened to LiveJournal
- Wired – 4 December 2018 – Tumblr’s Porn Ban Reveals Who Controls What We See Online
- Washington Post – 4 December 2018 – Before Tumblr Announced Plans to Ban Adult Content, It Was a Safe Space for Exploring Identity
- CNN – 3 December 2018 – How Tumblr’s Adult Content Crackdown Could Alienate Users
- Boing Boing – 19 November 2018 – How To Use Science Fiction to Teach Ethics
- The Daily Texan – 15 October 2018 – STEM Classrooms Should Bring Ethics to the Forefront
- Wired – 24 July 2018 – Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists?
- The Daily Camera – 21 July 2018 – CU Boulder Researcher is Campaigning to Make Barbie Better
- EdSurge – 26 June 2018 – In Tynker’s Partnership with Mattel, Kids Can Undertake Maker Careers with Barbie
- Colorado Politics – 10 April 2018 – Colorado was potential target of Facebook data breach, IT expert says
- The Guardian – 18 March 2018 – Data scandal is huge blow for Facebook – and efforts to study its impact on society.
- Refinery29 – 18 March 2018 – Cambridge Analytica’s “expectation violation” is the new normal in elections
- Today – 1 February 2018 – People Reveal the First Thing They Ever Bought on Amazon, and It’s Hilarious
- The Chronicle of Higher Education – 19 January 2018 – How Twitter Hooks Up Students with Ghostwriters
- The Conversation – 17 January 2018 – STEAM not STEM: Why Scientists Need Arts Training
- Boing Boing – 20 November 2017 – More than 50 Tech Ethics Courses, with Links to Syllabi
- The Washington Post – 7 November 2017 – As a conspiracy theory video spread after Texas shooting, YouTube works to tweak its algorithm
- Wired – 14 July 2017 – Google’s Academic Influence Campaign: It’s Complicated
- Mashable – 16 June 2016 – Barbie Has a New Career as a Game Developer
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