Books

• Lurking: How a person became a user, by Joanne McNeil, 2020
• Networked: The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, 2012
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle, 2011

Research

• Slanted Narratives, Social Media, and Foreign Influence in Libya, Stanford University June 3, 2022
• Distrupted media – disrupted academy: Rethinking African j-schools, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media Politics & Public Policy February 15, 2022
• Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media, Oxford Internet Institute January 2022
• Slanted Narratives, Social Media, and Foreign Influence in Libya, Stanford University’s Internet Observatory 2022
• Slanted Narratives, Social Media, and Foreign Influence in Libya 2022, Cyber Policy Center 2022
• How to save our social media by treating it like a city, MIT Technology Review December 20, 2021
• Middle East Influence Operations: Observations Across Social Media Takedowns, Stanford University August 25, 2021
• Failure to Protect Social media companies are failing to act on antisemitism, Center for Countering Digital Hate July 30, 2021
• Influx of right-wing users led to much greater Reddit polarization before 2016 U.S. election, UofT Schwartz Reisman Institute July 12, 2021
• The geopolitics of ‘platforms’: the TikTok challenge, Queensland University of Technology’s Digitial Media Research Centre May 1, 2021
• Making the Internet Safe for Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press April 13, 2021
• Five perspectives on newsroom social media policies, Tow Center for Digital Journalism 2021
• Middle East Influence Operations: Observations Across Social Media Takedowns, Cyber Policy Center 2021
• #WilltoAct: How social media giants have failed to live up to their claims on the Coronavirus ‘infodemic’, Center for Countering Digital Hate July 4, 2020
• As publishers rethink editorial norms, social media policies must follow, Tow Center for Digital Journalism 2020
• Facebook Friends? The Impact of Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Changes on Nonprofit Publishers, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media Politics & Public Policy October 26, 2019
• Don’t Feed the Trolls: A Practical Guide to Dealing With Hate on Social Media, Center for Countering Digital Hate September 16, 2019
• Disinformation in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy: Impacts and Ethics in an Era of Fake News, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence, The Center for Internet and Society May 17, 2019
• Data Craft: The Manipulation of Social Media Metadata, Data and Society Research Institute November 1, 2018
• Internet Platforms: Observations on Speech, Danger, and Money, Stanford University June 13, 2018
• Remediating Social Media: Why Layers Still Matter for Internet Policy, Stanford University April 19, 2018
• Transparency: What’s Gone Wrong with Social Media and What Can We Do About It? Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media Politics & Public Policy March 27, 2018
• Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time, Association for Psychological Science 2018

Law Review Articles

• Can Social Media Corporations be held Liable Under International Law for Human Rights Atrocities? Pace International Law Review 2022
• Section 230 and the Problem of Social Cost, Brooklyn Journal of Law and Policy 2021
• Regulating Disinformation in Europe: Implications for Speech and Privacy, UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law 2021
• Fixing Social Media: Toward a Democratic Digital Commons, Markets, Globalization, & Development Review 2020

Laws

• Florida’s Social Media Law Meets the First Amendment, Knight First Amendment Institute November 17, 2021

Essays/Blogs

• No one cares about your redesign, Garbageday.email February 16, 2022
• It Could Happen (T)here: Transnational Advocacy Strategies Around Social Media, Medium January 20, 2022
• Facebook’s Former Elections Boss Now Questions Social Media’s Impact on Politics, Wall Street Journal January 8, 2022
• View of TikTok and the “Alorithmized Self”, University of Illinois October 2021
• The False Promise of Web3, Medium January 21, 2021
• The Role of Social Media in Black Lives Matter, Redbrick June 20, 2020
• The Dark Psychology of Social Networks, The Atlantic December 2019
• How Social Media Shapes Our Identity, The New Yorker August 8, 2019

News

• Donald Trump’s Truth Social is off to a glitchy start. NYTimes February 24, 2022
• How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook, Wired February 8, 2022
• How The Sims Became the Internet’s Most Exciting Place to Eat, NYTimes February 7, 2022
• Americans Can’t Quit SMS, NYTimes February 2, 2022
• The New York Times Buys Wordle, NYTimes January 31, 2022
• The New Personal Website Isn’t Really a Website at All, The Atlantic January 26, 2022
• The Boy King of YouTube, NYTimes January 5, 2022
• A Former Facebook Executive Pushes to Open Social Media’s ‘Black Boxes’, NYTimes January 2, 2022
• Former Boston College Student Gets Suspended Sentence in Boyfriend’s Suicide, NYTimes December 23, 2021
• Where the Despairing Log On, and Learn Ways to Die, NYTimes December 9, 2021
• How TikTok Reads Your Mind, NYTimes December 5, 2021
• How the Taliban Turned Social Media Into a Tool for Control, NYTimes August 20, 2021

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