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by Mor Naaman — Reposted by: Karen Levy

informor.bsky.social
If your community is thinking about Community Notes, we have some notes to guide your Community Notes thinking right here. #CommunityNotes
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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 16d
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?
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

travislloydphd.bsky.social
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...
www.arxiv.org
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Reposted by: Karen Levy, Mor Naaman, James Grimmelmann

travislloydphd.bsky.social
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?
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Reposted by: Karen Levy, Solon Barocas

nkgarg.bsky.social
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
Screenshot of paper abstract, with text: "A core ethos of the Economics and Computation (EconCS) community is that people have complex private preferences and information of which the central planner is unaware, but which an appropriately designed mechanism can uncover to improve collective decisionmaking. This ethos underlies the community’s largest deployed success stories, from stable matching systems to participatory budgeting. I ask: is this choice and information aggregation “worth it”? In particular, I discuss how such systems induce heterogeneous participation: those already relatively advantaged are, empirically, more able to pay time costs and navigate administrative burdens imposed by the mechanisms. I draw on three case studies, including my own work – complex democratic mechanisms, resident crowdsourcing, and school matching. I end with lessons for practice and research, challenging the community to help reduce participation heterogeneity and design and deploy mechanisms that meet a “best of both worlds” north star: use preferences and information from those who choose to participate, but provide a “sufficient” quality of service to those who do not."
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

pegahmoradi.bsky.social
For @thehill.com, I wrote about what the Biden-Trump autopen controversy can tell us about automation, AI, and trust: thehill.com/opinion/whit...
thehill.com
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Reposted by: Karen Levy, Mor Naaman

mariannealq.bsky.social
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.
ischoolui.bsky.social
iSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social · Jun 4
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
photo of Marianne Aubin Le Quéré
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
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!
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Pegah Moradi @pegahmoradi.bsky.social · Jun 3
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...
The Human in the Loop: Pegah Moradi on Automation, Discretion, and the Future of Frontline Work - Siegel Family Endowment
Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and ...
www.siegelendowment.org
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

pegahmoradi.bsky.social
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...
The Human in the Loop: Pegah Moradi on Automation, Discretion, and the Future of Frontline Work - Siegel Family Endowment
Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and ...
www.siegelendowment.org
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Reposted by: Karen Levy, Eric Medvet

joshkovensky.bsky.social
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...
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
Absolutely adore the idea that someone would confuse Deloitte with Deee-lite
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

emmharv.bsky.social
✨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
A screenshot of our paper: Title: “Don’t Forget the Teachers”: Towards an Educator-Centered Understanding of Harms from Large Language Models in Education Authors: Emma Harvey, Allison Koenecke, Rene Kizilcec Abstract: Education technologies (edtech) are increasingly incorporating new features built on LLMs, with the goals of enriching the processes of teaching and learning and ultimately improving learning outcomes. However, it is still too early to understand the potential downstream impacts of LLM-based edtech. Prior attempts to map the risks of LLMs have not been tailored to education specifically, even though it is a unique domain in many respects: from its population (students are often children, who can be especially impacted by technology) to its goals (providing the ‘correct’ answer may be less important than understanding how to arrive at an answer) to its implications for higher-order skills that generalize across contexts (e.g. critical thinking and collaboration). We conducted semi-structured interviews with six edtech providers representing leaders in the K-12 space, as well as a diverse group of 23 educators with varying levels of experience with LLM-based edtech. Through a thematic analysis, we explored how each group is anticipating, observing, and accounting for potential harms from LLMs in education. We find that, while edtech providers focus primarily on mitigating technical harms, i.e. those that can be measured based solely on LLM outputs themselves, educators are more concerned about harms that result from the broader impacts of LLMs, i.e. those that require observation of interactions between students, educators, school systems, and edtech to measure. Overall, we (1) develop an education-specific overview of potential harms from LLMs, (2) highlight gaps between conceptions of harm by edtech providers and those by educators, and (3) make recommendations to facilitate the centering of educators in the design and development of edtech tools.
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
We were made for this moment!!!! 🤖✒️
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

pegahmoradi.bsky.social
this is literally my superbowl
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

pegahmoradi.bsky.social
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...
Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| “A Fountain Pen Come to Life”: The Anxieties of the Autopen | Moradi | International Journal of Communication
Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| “A Fountain Pen Come to Life”: The Anxieties of the Autopen
ijoc.org
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

newsweek.com.web.brid.gy
Joe Biden's 'Autopen' Signatures Spark MAGA Anger: 'Null and Void'
A report allegedly revealing Biden's use of an autopen to sign White House documents resurfaced concerns over his mental decline.
www.newsweek.com
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

pegahmoradi.bsky.social
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
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

pegahmoradi.bsky.social
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:
Text from article: Automation may also have unintended social consequences. Pegah Moradi, a PhD candidate and researcher in Information Science at Cornell University, studies automation in retail. “When [an electronic shelf label] breaks down in the store,” she explained, “the worker has to repair the system even if they don’t have the technical expertise. The customer becomes frustrated: There is no price available, or why has the price changed? The burden falls on the employee to alleviate the tension of that situation.” The technology may put employees in the position of performing what Moradi calls “relationship management,” adding social pressure to service jobs but without additional pay or training.
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

emmapierson.bsky.social
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.
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Reposted by: Karen Levy

allisonkoe.bsky.social
📢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
Banner for CHI 2025 workshop with text: "Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity"
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by Arvind Narayanan — Reposted by: Karen Levy, Matthew Salganik

randomwalker.bsky.social
📢 📢 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: 🧵
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
Exciting! Please tag me when it’s out.
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
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…
lpeproject.org
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Reposted by: Karen Levy, Daniel Zappala

mantzarlis.com
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... 🚡🚡🚡
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
❤️ mine used to say “speaking of…” as a way to announce the topic of what she was going to say. Like “speaking of ice cream, can I have some ice cream?” when nobody had been speaking of ice cream

by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
This was 100% my biggest takeaway from the article too, so glad you also enjoyed 😂
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by Matthew Salganik — Reposted by: Karen Levy

msalganik.bsky.social
As part of a major new initiative in interdisciplinary data science, Princeton has an open rank faculty search. The Department of Sociology is participating. Application review begins Dec 1: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
Also! Looking for teaching faculty across all topic areas: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28402
Cornell University, Information Science
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
academicjobsonline.org
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
Hey! Cornell Information Science is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels in Ithaca, focusing on qual/interpretive methods, CSS/quant approaches, study/design of human/AI interactions. Happy to chat or answer any questions I can! Review starts 11/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405
Cornell University, Information Science
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
academicjobsonline.org
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by Karen Levy

karenlevy.bsky.social
Yesssss! Working with two of my faves on this was a huge treat. So happy it's out!
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