I’ve created a blog to highlight some of my recent research. Feel free to follow along or email me your thoughts.
2024
November
November was a busy month for me! Before the presidential election, I served on a panel during the Disinformation & Democracy demonstration and discussion about disinformation. On the 7th, I successfully defended my PhD thesis. I have some minor revisions to make, but you can see the current version here .
Two weeks later, I gave birth to my second baby! I’m spending the rest of 2024 on maternity leave but will be back in the office in 2025. Some things I’m excited to do: publish my international instances of local news hijacking paper, finish a paper with a colleague on URL backlinks to pink slime sites discussing news diversity, and publish a paper analyzing all of the ads pink slime sites have purchased on Meta platforms since 2018.
October
My paper, “Non-credibility scores: Relative ranking of news sites shared on social media to identify new pink slime sites” was published in First Monday! You can read the paper here!
September
I’ll be presenting my paper “Local News Hijacking: A Review of International Instances” at the IDeaS conference September 18-20 at Carnegie Mellon University. I’ll also be in attendance of the SBP-BRiMS 2024 conference presenting a poster titled “Comparing Social-cyber Maneuvers Across Platforms and News Types During the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election.”
I will also be presenting my research on threats to local news at a panel on a Disinformation Day pannel on September 26 at Carnegie Mellon University.
April
My paper, “What News Is Shared Where and How: A Multi-Platform Analysis of News Shared During the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections” was published in Social Media + Society! You can read the paper here, or you can read the blog post I created for it on the IDeaS website. I’m particularly proud of this paper for a few reasons, but mostly I think it is important in defining the “Big 4 News Types” - low credibility news, real news, pink slime, and local news - on a grid of scope and credibility.
February
I successfully proposed my thesis! To read more about it, you can read the document here . I plan to defend the thesis in November of this year.
2023
November
I created the following images along with Matt Hicks and the support of the IDeaS Center at CMU to help spread guidance on spotting disinformation and auto-generated content.
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I attended the Tech Ethics Symposium in Pittsburgh November 9-10 and presented my poster on automated local news (below). I ended up winning best graduate student poster!
October
I attended the Post-API Conference in Philadelphia. I enjoyed the trip to my hometown and getting to hear from other researchers about how they’re handling the changing social media data landscape.
September
I presented at the SBP-Brims and IDeaS Conferences in Pittsburgh September 20-22.
2020
Back in 2020, my department at CMU interviewed me about my research and what information I would share with potential applicants to the PhD program. You can find the video here: