Ankolika De
@ankolika.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Penn State, Information, HCI, Social Media, STS; On the Job Market.
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I think @aoir.bsky.social and @acm-cscw.bsky.social should do a joint conference and just see what happens.
#AoIR2025 #CSCW2025
#AoIR2025 #CSCW2025
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think @aoir.bsky.social and @acm-cscw.bsky.social should do a joint conference and just see what happens.
#AoIR2025 #CSCW2025
#AoIR2025 #CSCW2025
I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart
October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart
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I've been saying this for yearsf: LLM-GENERATED SAMPLES ARE JUST FALSIFIED DATA. It's similar to just lying about what people said, or taking your own best guesses.
HEY FELLOW SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: STOP TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO AVOID ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING
HEY FELLOW SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: STOP TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO AVOID ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I've been saying this for yearsf: LLM-GENERATED SAMPLES ARE JUST FALSIFIED DATA. It's similar to just lying about what people said, or taking your own best guesses.
HEY FELLOW SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: STOP TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO AVOID ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING
HEY FELLOW SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: STOP TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO AVOID ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING
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My college wrote about my and colleagues' work for National Civic Hacking Day. The article covers NSF-funded research with @profprof.bsky.social, @kthorson.bsky.social, @ankolika.bsky.social, @afbat.bsky.social, Marialina Antolini, Benji Davis around volunteer moderators of local online groups.
National Day of Civic Hacking is Sept. 18 | Penn State University
The National Day of Civic Hacking is Sept. 18. Many researchers in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology work on advancing technology for social good.
www.psu.edu
September 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My college wrote about my and colleagues' work for National Civic Hacking Day. The article covers NSF-funded research with @profprof.bsky.social, @kthorson.bsky.social, @ankolika.bsky.social, @afbat.bsky.social, Marialina Antolini, Benji Davis around volunteer moderators of local online groups.
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And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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De, Cotter, Kanthawala, McAtee, Ritchart, Kadur: "Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16851 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.16851
June 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
De, Cotter, Kanthawala, McAtee, Ritchart, Kadur: "Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16851 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.16851
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Replacing human judgement with mathematical models to make things more "fair" and "consistent" is an idea that's been around for over a century, but we keep discovering (again and again) that these models fail due to their design and input while providing cover for systemic cruelty.
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Replacing human judgement with mathematical models to make things more "fair" and "consistent" is an idea that's been around for over a century, but we keep discovering (again and again) that these models fail due to their design and input while providing cover for systemic cruelty.
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Ankolika De: "Business on WhatsApp is tough now- but am I really a businesswoman?" Exploring Challenges with Adapting to Changes in WhatsApp Business https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10913 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.10913 https://arxiv.org/html/2502.10913
February 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Ankolika De: "Business on WhatsApp is tough now- but am I really a businesswoman?" Exploring Challenges with Adapting to Changes in WhatsApp Business https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10913 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.10913 https://arxiv.org/html/2502.10913
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Excited for the incredible Ankolika De to present our work at this year’s FAccT! We call out the “hard to reach” myth for international participants, address IRB’s demands that misalign with participant experiences, & how IRBs don’t understand social media platform specificity @shaheenk.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited for the incredible Ankolika De to present our work at this year’s FAccT! We call out the “hard to reach” myth for international participants, address IRB’s demands that misalign with participant experiences, & how IRBs don’t understand social media platform specificity @shaheenk.bsky.social
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De et al: Who Gets Heard? Calling Out the "Hard-to-Reach" Myth for Non-WEIRD Populations' Recruitment and Involvement in Research
#FAccT2025
#FAccT2025
June 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
De et al: Who Gets Heard? Calling Out the "Hard-to-Reach" Myth for Non-WEIRD Populations' Recruitment and Involvement in Research
#FAccT2025
#FAccT2025
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New OA pub day! Given the dwindling of local newspapers, folks are turning to social media. Platforms are discursively constructing local community groups as a new kind of hub. But local volunteer mods are the ones who are charged to realize these visions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Local platformized utopias? corporate discourse, community groups, and volunteer moderation on Facebook, Reddit, and NextDoor
journals.sagepub.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New OA pub day! Given the dwindling of local newspapers, folks are turning to social media. Platforms are discursively constructing local community groups as a new kind of hub. But local volunteer mods are the ones who are charged to realize these visions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....