alice e marwick
@alicetiara.bsky.social
Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
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The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy
"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental schis...
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Wrote a big hot take for Nieman’s 2025 predictions & managed to shoehorn in a lot of pet peeves while using “epistemic” sparingly www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...
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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS
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Very exciting to see activists launching a new nonprofit today to keep building on the community of volunteers that came together to get Mamdani elected.
Our Time is a 501(c)(4) and plans to start events in December.
Our Time is a 501(c)(4) and plans to start events in December.
Our Time
A campaign for an affordable NYC
ourtime.nyc
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Very exciting to see activists launching a new nonprofit today to keep building on the community of volunteers that came together to get Mamdani elected.
Our Time is a 501(c)(4) and plans to start events in December.
Our Time is a 501(c)(4) and plans to start events in December.
Genuine question: who is advising Mamdani on tech, surveillance, AI, etc?
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Genuine question: who is advising Mamdani on tech, surveillance, AI, etc?
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Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
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There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.
Read more from my fantastic team at D&S studying how people use general purpose LLMs for mental health and emotional support, including a new Big Data & Society paper:
“The perennial availability of AI is rapidly reshaping our expectations of care,” @briana-v.bsky.social and Ranjit Singh write in a new blog post about this piece. “Care is not mere output. It lives in the slow, difficult work of attunement, which no machine can truly provide.”
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Read more from my fantastic team at D&S studying how people use general purpose LLMs for mental health and emotional support, including a new Big Data & Society paper:
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents - Communication and Change
Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile applications to address structural gaps in me...
link.springer.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Since moving to civil society, I've noticed a huge dearth of support for researchers working in the space - although there are tons of us! Come join this D&SxACLUxCDT event where we talk about the opportunities and challenges of research to support tech policy & advocacy!
Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society.
Join us on November 13 for an online discussion featuring @alicetiara.bsky.social @mkgerchick.bsky.social @jordanaut.bsky.social and me.
Organized by @cdt.org @datasociety.bsky.social @aclu.org
cdt.org/event/advoca...
Join us on November 13 for an online discussion featuring @alicetiara.bsky.social @mkgerchick.bsky.social @jordanaut.bsky.social and me.
Organized by @cdt.org @datasociety.bsky.social @aclu.org
cdt.org/event/advoca...
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Since moving to civil society, I've noticed a huge dearth of support for researchers working in the space - although there are tons of us! Come join this D&SxACLUxCDT event where we talk about the opportunities and challenges of research to support tech policy & advocacy!
KOSA KEEPS RISING FROM THE DEAD - DON'T LET THIS ZOMBIE BILL SUCCEED. It would implement widespread age verification across all 50 states and censor queer/reproductive content!
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
KOSA KEEPS RISING FROM THE DEAD - DON'T LET THIS ZOMBIE BILL SUCCEED. It would implement widespread age verification across all 50 states and censor queer/reproductive content!
mom's group chat at my son's old school poppin' this morning because a kid sent a TikTok to the kids group chat "Where Peppa comes home to find her family slain in pools of blood, and she kills Shrek with a sword in revenge"
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
mom's group chat at my son's old school poppin' this morning because a kid sent a TikTok to the kids group chat "Where Peppa comes home to find her family slain in pools of blood, and she kills Shrek with a sword in revenge"
OK, given Harvard's news, thinking through a drastically reduced PhD student workforce:
* Fewer grad student labor for TAs: Best case: new tenured positions! More likely: more adjuncts
* Fewer graduates of PhD programs. Best case: More PhD candidates get jobs! More likely: Fewer jobs
* Fewer grad student labor for TAs: Best case: new tenured positions! More likely: more adjuncts
* Fewer graduates of PhD programs. Best case: More PhD candidates get jobs! More likely: Fewer jobs
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
OK, given Harvard's news, thinking through a drastically reduced PhD student workforce:
* Fewer grad student labor for TAs: Best case: new tenured positions! More likely: more adjuncts
* Fewer graduates of PhD programs. Best case: More PhD candidates get jobs! More likely: Fewer jobs
* Fewer grad student labor for TAs: Best case: new tenured positions! More likely: more adjuncts
* Fewer graduates of PhD programs. Best case: More PhD candidates get jobs! More likely: Fewer jobs
Great! So great! Everything is just great!
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Great! So great! Everything is just great!
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D&S Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social talks to @kqedforum.bsky.social about what increasingly realistic deepfake videos mean for our ability to trust what we see online, with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social & @maxread.info. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Deepfake Videos Just Got More Realistic…and More Dangerous | KQED
We talk about OpenAI's Sora and what kind of destabilizing impact could it have on our society.
www.kqed.org
October 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
D&S Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social talks to @kqedforum.bsky.social about what increasingly realistic deepfake videos mean for our ability to trust what we see online, with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social & @maxread.info. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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🎙️ ON AIR:
We're talking to journalist @maxread.info, @datasociety.bsky.social's @alicetiara.bsky.social and @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the impact that increasingly realistic deepfake videos could have on our society.
❓Are AI videos changing how you use the internet?
📻 Listen:
We're talking to journalist @maxread.info, @datasociety.bsky.social's @alicetiara.bsky.social and @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the impact that increasingly realistic deepfake videos could have on our society.
❓Are AI videos changing how you use the internet?
📻 Listen:
Deepfake Videos Just Got More Realistic…and More Dangerous | KQED
We talk about OpenAI's Sora and what kind of destabilizing impact could it have on our society.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎙️ ON AIR:
We're talking to journalist @maxread.info, @datasociety.bsky.social's @alicetiara.bsky.social and @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the impact that increasingly realistic deepfake videos could have on our society.
❓Are AI videos changing how you use the internet?
📻 Listen:
We're talking to journalist @maxread.info, @datasociety.bsky.social's @alicetiara.bsky.social and @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the impact that increasingly realistic deepfake videos could have on our society.
❓Are AI videos changing how you use the internet?
📻 Listen:
This was such a great convo and thrilled to be part of a whole series on scams and schemes. Thanks @alixdunn.com !
How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...
The Maybe
www.themaybe.org
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This was such a great convo and thrilled to be part of a whole series on scams and schemes. Thanks @alixdunn.com !
Are there any AI-specific journals that publish qual work?
October 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Are there any AI-specific journals that publish qual work?
fantastic op-ed from my D&S colleagues Ranjit Singh and Livia Garofolo about the needs of guardrails on general purpose LLMs for mental health undark.org/2025/09/18/o...
AI Chatbots Need Guardrails to Protect Users’ Mental Health
Opinion | Chatbots are designed to keep people engaged. But without certain boundaries, AI-driven conversations could cause harm.
undark.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
fantastic op-ed from my D&S colleagues Ranjit Singh and Livia Garofolo about the needs of guardrails on general purpose LLMs for mental health undark.org/2025/09/18/o...
hey y'all, working on an R&R and I need some good criticisms of CASA (computers as social actors) applied to AI. I'm having a really hard time finding good articles or overviews. Any suggestions? I already have Suchman.
September 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
hey y'all, working on an R&R and I need some good criticisms of CASA (computers as social actors) applied to AI. I'm having a really hard time finding good articles or overviews. Any suggestions? I already have Suchman.
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First up, on September 5 @ 6 pm ET: a grounding conversation about how AI technologies are reshaping daily life, featuring D&S director of research @alicetiara.bsky.social, advisors @merbroussard.bsky.social & Mimi Ọnụọha, & board member @geomblog.bsky.social. www.showclix.com/event/unders...
August 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
First up, on September 5 @ 6 pm ET: a grounding conversation about how AI technologies are reshaping daily life, featuring D&S director of research @alicetiara.bsky.social, advisors @merbroussard.bsky.social & Mimi Ọnụọha, & board member @geomblog.bsky.social. www.showclix.com/event/unders...
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Hi hello @onthemedia.bsky.social is rerunning some interviews I did. One with @beccalew.bsky.social and another with Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team. The episode also features @mmasnick.bsky.social, and @mollyfication.bsky.social’s excellent interview with @amandahess.bsky.social. Great show! Listen:
Silicon Valley's Rightwing Roots. Plus, the CEO of Bluesky Reimagines Social Media | On the Media | WNYC Studios
When Donald Trump returned to office, tech companies donated millions of dollars to his inaugural committee. On this week’s On the Media, the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley. Plus, ...
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August 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Hi hello @onthemedia.bsky.social is rerunning some interviews I did. One with @beccalew.bsky.social and another with Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team. The episode also features @mmasnick.bsky.social, and @mollyfication.bsky.social’s excellent interview with @amandahess.bsky.social. Great show! Listen:
I'm looking for smart people doing interesting work on what AI means for scientific knowledge production & epistemology.. any recs? I already know @mjcrockett.bsky.social of course
July 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I'm looking for smart people doing interesting work on what AI means for scientific knowledge production & epistemology.. any recs? I already know @mjcrockett.bsky.social of course
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New work from @alicetiara.bsky.social, Courtlyn Pippert, Elaine Schnabel, and me recently published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/6)
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July 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New work from @alicetiara.bsky.social, Courtlyn Pippert, Elaine Schnabel, and me recently published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/6)
Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...
Data Centers Aren’t the Future of American Prosperity
Tamara Kneese and Maia Woluchem cut through lobbying points and speculative myths to focus on what the evidence reveals about the tech industry’s claims.
datasociety.net
July 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...