Jeremy Foote
banner
jeremydfoote.com
Jeremy Foote
@jeremydfoote.com
Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
Depends on the manuscript. Some would be much better if they had used AI, so I feel confident they didn't! :)

But the reverse doesn't work - unless there are telltale signs like hallucinated citations, I'm never confident.
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you are interested in studying self-organizing processes of online communities, AI in online communities, and/or how communities influence their members (and vice versa), then you should come!

You should also reach out and introduce yourself - contact info is on my website at jeremydfoote.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Would love to be added! Thanks!
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you found it useful!

Around the same time, another group in our lab, led by @groceryheist.cc, published a related paper that you might also be interested in:

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I've also written about founders and their original goals (often not growth!)
No Community Can Do Everything: Why People Participate in Similar Online Communities | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Large-scale quantitative analyses have shown that individuals frequently talk to each other about similar things in different online spaces. Why do these overlapping communities exist? We provide an answer grounded in the analysis of 20 interviews with ...
dl.acm.org
August 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It's pretty broad. I study online communities - often Reddit - using data about people's posts or comments to try to answer social science questions.
July 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Yes, it's nice. I've really enjoyed living and working there.
July 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
😂
July 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM