Press & Public Scholarship

Sometimes I am in the news!

OpEds and Popular Press Articles

• The Conversation – 18 April 2023 – AI has social consequences, but who pays the price? Tech companies’ problem with ‘ethical debt’
• Slate – 28 March 2023 – Congress Doesn’t Understand Something Big About TikTok
• The Conversation – 3 November 2022 – Mass migration from Twitter is likely to be an uphill battle – just ask ex-Tumblr users
  • Updated 9 July 2023 – Meta’s Threads is surging, but mass migration from Twitter is likely to remain an uphill battle
• NBC THINK – 22 October 2022 – Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ album gives TikTok fan groups more fodder — and community
• Slate – 27 August 2022 – The plight of the former fanfiction author
• NBC THINK –  26 January 2022 – What TikTok’s ‘West Elm Caleb’ says about dating, social media — and us
• Slate – 17 September 2020 – Dolls Who Code: American Girl’s “Courtney” is the Game Developer the 80s Needed
• WIRED – 16 September 2020 – Ethical Tech Starts with Addressing Ethical Debt (with Natalie Garrett)
• Authors Alliance – 30 June 2020 – The Missing Stakeholder of DMCA 512: Non-Infringing Users
• Slate – 9 April 2019 – Why Archive of Our Own’s Hugo Nomination Is Such a Big Deal
• How We Get to Next – 20 March 2019 – Scientists Like Me Are Studying Your Tweets – Are You OK With That?
• Slate – 5 December 2018 – Fandom’s Fate is Not Tied to Tumblr’s (with Brianna Dym)
• How We Get to Next – 5 December 2018 – What Our Tech Ethics Crisis Says About Computer Science Education
• How We Get to Next – 15 October 2018 – Black Mirror, Light Mirror: Teaching Technology Ethics Through Speculation
• 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 Daily Camera – 2 August 2023 – CU Boulder to improve ‘bionic pancreas’ to help people with diabetes
• 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

• The Mary Sue – 12 September 2023 – Ethics Professor Weighs in on Save Scumming ‘Debate’ Reignited by ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’
• The New Stack – 30 July 2023 – This Barbie Is a Programmer: Could Barbie Inspire the Youth to Pursue Tech?
• VOX – 29 July 2023 – Why TikTokers are drinking laundry detergent
• NBC News – 14 June 2023 – Why this tool is reducing Asian influence in AI-generated art
• Vice – 16 May 2023 – ‘Sickfluencers’: Why Are People Faking Illnesses on TikTok?
• Slate France – 20 April 2023 – Tumblr n’est pas mort, vive Tumblr
• Science News – 8 April 2023 – How ChatGPT and similar AI will disrupt education
• TechCrunch – 25 March 2023 – ‘So infuriating’: TikTokers are fuming over potential ban
• CU Independent – 7 March 2023 – CU Boulder faculty express concerns about ChatGPT on campus
• CU Boulder Today – 20 February 2023 – 5 burning questions about ChatGPT, answered by humans
• The Denver Post – 10 February 2023 – Colorado schools brace for artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT: “This is going to be huge”
• Buzzfeed News – 8 February 2023 – What Happens When You Become Viral Content Without Your Consent
• Science – 8 February 2023 – Twitter’s plan to cut off free data access evokes ‘fair amount of panic’ among scientists
• WIRED – 7 February 2023 – The Mastodon Bump is Now a Slump
• Fortune – 15 December 2022 – Is ChatGPT the end of trust? Will the college essay survive?
• Insider Higher Ed – 1 December 2022 – The Gradual, Disjointed Dispersion of Academic Twitter
• 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

Interviews

• Vergecast (The Verge podcast) – 5 December 2022 – The Dark, Uncertain World of Creator Funds
• CBC Spark (Radio) – 4 March 2022 – Heroes and Villains
• ABC Denver 7 (TV) – 3 November 2021 – Facebook to stop using facial recognition technology
• FOX31 (TV) – 4 October 2021 – Business impacted by Facebook outage?
• KOAA News (TV) – 19 January 2021 – Why Twitter can suspend President Trump, but politicians can’t block users
• KKTV News (TV) – 7 January 2021 – Social media sites suspending President Trump: what experts say
• KOAA News (TV) – 8 January 2022 – Bad influence? Social media and the current political climate
• FOX31 (TV) – 8 January 2021 – President Trump permanently suspended from Twitter
• FOX31 (TV) – 7 January 2021 – CU professor: Stopping spread of misinformation on social media will take more than censorship
• 9NEWS (TV) – 13 May 2019 – This teenager from Longmont makes 6 figures doing makeup tutorials on YouTube
• ABC Denver7 (TV) – 21 January 2019 – Clearing your past on social media
• 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