Press

Sometimes I am in the news! And sometimes it doesn’t even involve Barbies.

TED Talk: How Copyright and the Internet Fuel Creativity

My Popular Press Writings

• Slate – 18 March 2018 – One Way Facebook Can Stop the Next Cambridge Analytica (with Jacob Metcalf)
• Slate – 5 May 2017 – Companies Don’t Really Want You to Read Their Terms of Service
• Slate – 1 February 2017 – What I Learned about the Internet from the Babysitters Club
• Slate – 15 June 2016 – Game Developer Barbie Can Actually Code!
• Slate – 12 November 2015 – How Missouri Could Demonstrate What’s Wonderful About Yik Yak
• Slate – 21 November 2014 – Barbie Really Is a Computer Engineer

Interviews

• The Current on CBC (Radio) – 24 March 2018 – Cambridge Analytica and ethical codes of content
• KGNU (Radio) – 17 August 2016 – Gender Politics and the Olympics
• Tech News Today (Video) – 15 June 2016 – Podcast of the Dolls
• Fansplaining (Podcast) – 27 January 2016 – Death and the Fangirl
• Lost in the Stacks (Podcast) – 9 January 2015 – The Barbie Re-Mix
• NPR All Things Considered (Radio) – 22 November 2014 – After Backlash, Computer Engineer Barbie Gets a New Set of Skills
• Huffington Post Live (Video) – 21 November 2014 – What Barbie’s Engineer Book Should Have Looked Like
• America Weekend (Radio) – 23 May 2014 – If the Service is Free, it’s Likely the Commodity Being Sold is You!

Research Coverage and Quotes

• KUNC Radio – 22 March 2018 – Your tweets can be used for science – with or without your permission, CU Boulder explains 
• The Daily Camera – 21 March 2018 – CU Boulder study probes ethics of researchers’ use of Twitter data
• 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
• Westword – 14 March 2018 – Stephen Hawking and celebrity deaths: Trolls, tears and social media
• The Washington Post – 7 November 2017 – As a conspiracy theory video spread after Texas shooting, YouTube works to tweak its algorithm
• 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

Barbie Remix (selections, November 2014)

• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Georgia Tech Student ReWrites Sexist Barbie Book
• Cosmopolitan – Two Women Fixed This Disturbingly Sexist Barbie Book
• The Daily Dot – Geek Girls Reject Sexist Barbie Book By Remixing It
• The Mary Sue – A Female PhD Student in Computing Re-Wrote That Horrible “Barbie Computer Engineer” Book and Made It Awesome. & The Year In (Peer) Review: Nine Great Moments for Women In STEM From 2014
• Popular Mechanics – Two Real Programmers Fix This Sexist Barbie Computer Engineering Book
• The Toronto Star – Barbie’s controversial computer engineer book gets rewrite