Press

Sometimes I am in the news! And it isn’t always about 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

Research Coverage 

• 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

• 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

Interviews

• Colorado Public Radio (radio) – 30 July 2018 – Barbie’s now a computer engineer; this CU professor helped make it happen
• 9NEWS (TV) – 27 July 2018 – CU professor helps Barbie break barriers
• CBS Denver (TV) – 25 July 2018 – CU Professor Helping Shape Barbie’s Future Image on the Job
• Channel 2 Daybreak (Live TV) – 25 July 2018 – Campaign to Make Barbie Better
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Radio) – 25 March 2018 – Could the next Cambridge Analytica be prevented by opening access to data? 
• 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!

Barbie Remix (selections from 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