just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN. It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.

Sarah Brayne, Sarah Lageson and Karen Levy have a nice paper on “surveillance deputies.” Ring wants to deputize your pet dog. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Community Notes" are reshaping how millions encounter information on social media--but what makes them work (or not)? We term these "Crowdsourced Context Systems" (CCS) and introduce a framework for designing and evaluating them in a new #CHI26 paper 🧵

Interesting new statistical analysis, again confirming that mandatory electronic monitoring in trucking—ostensibly a safety measure—led to *increased* accident and fatality rates after implementation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The unintended consequences of monitoring technologies: Evidence from the Electronic Logging Device mandate

The electronic logging device (ELD) final rule was passed in 2015 and implemented in phases over the course of four years. The mandate required that m…

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Today for @lpeblog.bsky.social I have a short piece on clinical academic freedom and the challenges we face in vindicating our rights as clinical faculty amid political interference. This piece stems from an Essay I have forthcoming on the topic in 2026. lpeproject.org/blog/clinics...

Clinics Under Fire: Defending Legal Education from Political Interference

While legal clinics have long been vulnerable to pressure from outside forces, recent attacks by the federal government represent an alarming new level of interference. Protecting clinical work now…

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AI in the workplace isn’t just automation. Workers report discrimination, intensified workloads, and even automated firing. New state policies aim to center workers, write Mishal Khan and Annette Bernhardt from our Technology and Work Program. www.techpolicy.press/evaluating-t...

Evaluating Trends and Challenges in State Regulation of Workplace Technologies | TechPolicy.Press

The 2025 US state legislative session has been something of a watershed moment for tech and work policy, write Mishal Khan and Annette Bernhardt.

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Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · 10mo ago

🚨New Issue Out Now!! Open Access!! Navigate all the fresh #sociology with our clickable table of contents (contexts.org/articles/su2...), listen to the issue's companion playlist (open.spotify.com/playlist/5PB...), and read the "digest" (mailchi.mp/ea0c38553548...) to learn more!

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

If your community is thinking about Community Notes, we have some notes to guide your Community Notes thinking right here. #CommunityNotes

travis lloyd (træve)@travislloydphd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New preprint! Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) like X's and Meta's Community Notes are popping up on various social media platforms. How can we better understand, critique, and design such systems?

We hope this framework will guide an HCI research agenda on this impactful new class of social media system. Check out the full paper here: www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.15434 @informor.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social @tungdnguyen.bsky.social

Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems

Social media platforms are increasingly developing features that display crowdsourced context alongside posts, modeled after X's Community Notes. These systems, which we term Crowdsourced Context Syst...

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New preprint! Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) like X's and Meta's Community Notes are popping up on various social media platforms. How can we better understand, critique, and design such systems?

New piece, out in the Sigecom Exchanges! It's my first solo-author piece, and the closest thing I've written to being my "manifesto." #econsky #ecsky arxiv.org/abs/2507.03600

For @thehill.com, I wrote about what the Biden-Trump autopen controversy can tell us about automation, AI, and trust: thehill.com/opinion/whit...

It's finally public! 🎉 Excited to announce I'll be joining UIUC's iSchool as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. My lab will focus on AI information ecosystems, computational social science, and social computing. I will start recruiting PhD students this cycle, so please reach out if interested.

iSchool at Illinois@ischoolui.bsky.social · last yr.

The #iSchoolUI is pleased to announce that Marianne Aubin Le Quéré (@mariannealq.bsky.social) will join the faculty as an assistant professor in August 2026. Her work traces how AI and other emerging technologies impact online news and civic information ecosystems. ▶️ bit.ly/4kObZ0l

This is a great interview with a real one: a wonderful peek into the brain of @pegahmoradi.bsky.social and her work on automation and labor!

Pegah Moradi@pegahmoradi.bsky.social · last yr.

I had a great conversation with Madison Snider at Siegel about how various technologies—from complex AI tools to basic self checkout—are changing the nature of service jobs for millions of Americans 🛒 Give it a read to learn more about my recent work! :) www.siegelendowment.org/insights/the...

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

✨New Work✨ by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social forthcoming at #CHI2025: "Don't Forget the Teachers": Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14592

Absolutely adore the idea that someone would confuse Deloitte with Deee-lite

this is literally my superbowl

but that doesn't mean it wasn't ever controversial (and perhaps always has been!), per my paper with @karenlevy.bsky.social on what the autopen can tell us about values embedded in digital replication :) ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

The Heritage Foundation-backed "Oversight Project" pointing out that Biden used an autopen to sign a number of documents *would* be damning...if it wasn't the case that nearly every president since JFK has done the same

Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business,…@newsweek.com.web.brid.gy · last yr.

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

My paper (with @karenlevy.bsky.social and Cristobal Cheyre!) on how self-checkout deepens these relational demands for cashiers is forthcoming in @acm-cscw.bsky.social 2025 :) 🔗 Link here: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00205

I spoke with @annlarson.bsky.social about how store tech can increase demands on frontline retail workers, for her latest in The Nation! Workers often have to make shoppers feel better when store tech frustrates or confuses them, making retail work more socially and relationally demanding:

The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 2y ago

Electronic price labels are prone to malfunction, which forces employees to work harder to make it clear to shoppers what they would be charged at checkout. What is the logic of retailers spending money on glitchy technology that doesn’t improve service?

Our article on using LLMs to promote health equity is out in New England Journal of Medicine AI! 85% of equity-related LLM papers focus on *harms*. But also vital are the equity-related *opportunities* LLMs create: detecting bias, extracting structured data, and improving access to health info.

📢Announcing 1-day CHI 2025 workshop: Speech AI for All! We’ll discuss challenges & impacts of inclusive speech tech for people with speech diversities, connecting researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community members. 🎉Apply to join us: speechai4all.org

📢 📢 Come join our vibrant interdisciplinary group of about 40 scholars at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy working to understand and improve the relationship between technology and society. We are looking at all levels: 🧵

An exciting opportunity for PhD students to spend a summer at our campus in NYC and be part of our new Security, Trust, and Safety (SETS) Initiative! Deadline: January 21, 2025.

Alexios Mantzarlis@mantzarlis.com · 2y ago

Attention PhD students interested in digital safety: applications are now open for the Security, Trust, and Safety Fellowships at Cornell Tech! Eligible projects must focus on adversarial threats to security, privacy and user safety on digital infrastructures. 🚡🚡🚡 mailchi.mp/tech/applica... 🚡🚡🚡

We have surprisingly little good empirical data on the prevalence of worker monitoring; we tend to rely on media reports or just vibes. No more! Great new nationally representative survey from @awhf.bsky.social: lpeproject.org/blog/your-bo...

Your Boss is Probably Spying on You: New Data on Workplace Surveillance

New research reveals that more than two-thirds of U.S. workers are subject to electronic monitoring, and that more intensive productivity monitoring is associated with higher levels of anxiety…

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