Writing & Talks
Media features, invited talks, and essays on trust, AI-generated content, and crisis information.
As Featured In
TikTok Insiders and Creators Worry Its Powerful Algorithm Could Lose Its Magic After a Sale — expert commentary on TikTok's recommendation algorithm and its pending sale.
Business Insider · Oct 2025
Facts, Frames, and (Mis)interpretations: Understanding Rumors as Collective Sensemaking — on how social media users collectively make sense of ambiguous information during crisis events.
Center for an Informed Public · Dec 2023
Collaborative Autoethnography as a Method to Explore Short-Lived Social AI Chatbots — with Soobin Cho, Anna Lindner, Joseph S. Schafer, Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, and Mark Zachry.
HAI Conference · Nov 2025
Poster presentation on trust & safety research methods.
Trust and Safety Research Conference · Sept 2025
Selected talks
SAP UA Futures Group — invited talk. [Video link pending — will add once posted to Vimeo]
Know Your User: Design Methods & Frameworks to Use Every Day — a practical workshop on UX research methods for product managers. Watch on YouTube
Dissertation Defense — "Weatherfluencers: Trust and Collective Sensemaking in Severe Weather Livestreams." [Slides link pending]
Writing
Weatherfluencers: How Storm Livestreamers Are Reshaping Crisis Communication
On the rise of real-time severe weather livestreamers and what they mean for crisis communication. — Read essay →
On the rise of real-time severe weather livestreamers and what they mean for crisis communication. — Read essay →
Privatization Concerns: The NOAA Crisis and Its Impact on Weather Information
On NOAA/NWS staffing cuts and what they mean for public weather information. — Read essay →
On NOAA/NWS staffing cuts and what they mean for public weather information. — Read essay →