Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Books

  • Forthcoming. Machine Liberalism: Reconceptualizing Rights in the Age of AI. Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.
  • 2025. You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract. Bristol University Press.
  • 2012. Facebook Democracy: The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life. Routledge.

Affiliations

Scholarly Articles

Book Chapters

  • 2023. El peligro de la Inteligencia Artificial para la democracia. CIDOB Annuario. Barcelona Center for International Affairs.
  • 2016. "Networked Representation: Latina Legislators on Twitter." in S. Navarro, S. Hernandez and L. Navarro eds. Latinas in American Politics. Rowman and Littlefield.
  • 2013. "Profile Politics: Examining Polarization through Congressional Member Facebook Pages" in S. Kelly and S. Frisch eds. Politics to the Extreme: American Political Institutions in the 21st Century. Palgrave McMillan.
  • 2013. "Facebook's Imact on American Politics" in D. Hartman and C. Uggen eds. The Social Side of Politics W.W. Norton Press.

Articles and Essays

  • 2024. "Is TikTok an Early Casualty of the China-US AI "Cold War"?" Tech Policy Press
  • 2023. Strategic Vexing to Prepare Students for the Age of AI. (London) Times Higher Education.
  • 2023. The Real Danger of AI. Democracy Paradox.
  • 2023. Section 230 Rightly Protects Voice, but Allowing Platforms to Use Amplification Algorithms With Total Impunity Does Harm. Tech Policy Press.
  • 2022. Trust and Algorithm or Trust your Neighbor? New_Public
  • 2021. "Teaching Students to Make Good Choices in an Algorithm-Driven World." EdSurge.
  • 2021. "Twitter Finally Suspended Trump’s Account, but Did They Do It for the Right Reasons?" Tech Policy Press.
  • 2021. "Why the Instaspinions on Finstagate"? Tech Policy Press.
  • 2019. Is Facebook a Community? Digital Experts Weigh In. Just Security.
  • 2019. Teaching what I do not Know. VC Reporter.
  • 2018. My Concern with John Lott's Arizona Study. Latino Decisions.
  • 2018. "Learning from the world’s Facebook experiment," AAPS Forum.
  • 2018. "Overcoming our Fake News Moment," Los Angeles Daily News.
  • 2018. My Concerns with John Lott's Arizona Study. Latino Decisions.
  • 2015. "The Debates Should Be a TV Mini-Series Instead of a Marathon," New York Times.
  • 2011. "Can the Internet be a Door to Increased Latin@ and African American Participation"? with Jessica Lavriega-Monforti. Latino Decisions.

Presentations

  • 2025. "Good for Whom? Identifying Predictors of Participatory AI among UN Sustainable Development AI For Good Projects" at the 2025 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. Seattle, WA. April 17-19.
  • 2025. Invited Participant: Conference on World Affairs. University of Colorado-Boulder.
  • 2024. "You are an Algorithmic Problem: AI and the Threat of Factory Farmed Citizens" at the 2024 Socio-technical Consequences of AI conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on September 13th, 2024.
  • 2024. "The Promise of LLM based AI Classification in Expanding Narrative Policy Analysis" at the Workshop on Generative AI as a Method in Social Sciences organized by the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University and the Imagining Sustainable Digital Futures (Aalto University, Finland) on June 24, 2024.
  • 2024. "The Importance of Thinking Small: Incorporating Case Study and Fuzzy Set Methodology to the study of Social Media" at the Researching Social Media After The API workshop hosted by the Center for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy at the University of Liverpool.
  • 2021. “Fracking Twitter: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Tools for the Identification of Coalition and Causal Narratives”. With Will Cipolli and Jose Marichal. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. April 9, 2022.
  • 2019. Topic Modeling Trump Tweets: A Computational Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Social Media Political Talk. Presented at the 2019 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. April 19-22.
  • 2019. Fracking Twitter: Applying the Narrative Policy Framework to fracking debates in New York. Presented at the 2019 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. April 4-7. With Andy Pattison and William Cipioli.
  • 2018. Factory Farmed Citizens: Social Media, the Public Sphere and Algorithmic Obligation. Presented at the Eight Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics at Loyola University. Chicago, IL. November 9, 2018. With Brian Collins and Richard Neve.
  • 2018. Antagonistic Bias: Developing a Typology of Agonistic Talk on Twitter Using Gun Control Networks. Presented at the 2018 Western Political Science Assocation Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. April 14-16. With Richard Neve.
  • 2018. The Role of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Democratic Life. Invited Talk at Whitman College. Walla Walla, Washington. April 23, 2018.
  • 2017. A Social network Analysis of the Resistance Twitter Ecology. Presented at the 2017 APSA Political Neworks Conference. Columbus, OH. June 14-16. With Ryan Mundy and Jack Rockwood.
  • 2015. Microactivism: Explaining the Determinants of Effective Campaigns through Social Media Ecologies. Presented at the 2015 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV. April 2-4.
  • 2014. Civic Hacking, Place Based Social Networks and Urban Power. Presented at the 2014 Western Political Science Assocation Annual Conference. Seattle, WA. April 17-19.
  • 2013. Roundtable: Public Intellectualism: Academics who Engage in Real-Time Politics Through New Media. Presented at the 2014 Western Political Science Assocation Annual Conference. Hollywood, CA. April 17-19.
  • 2012. Latino Participation Dynamics in the 2011 Occupy Wall Street Movement. Presented at the 2012 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. Portland, OR. March 22-24, 2012.
  • 2011. Bringing the Blogosphere into the Classroom: Strategies for Incorporating External Discourses. Presented at the 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV. August 22, 2011.
  • 2011. The Role of Digital Skills in the Formation of Trust and Efficacy Among Latinos. Presented at the 2011 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. April 23, 2011. With Jessica Lavariega Monforti.
  • 2010. "Political Facebok Groups: Microactivism and the Digital Front Stage." Presented and the Oxford Internet Institute's Internet, Poltics, Policy: an Impact Assessment Conference. Oxford, England. September 16-17, 2010.
  • 2010. "Red State, Red Blog, Blue State, Blue Blog?" with Ryan Kushigemachi. Presented at the 2010 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. March 31, 2010.
  • 2010. Citizenship in the Cloud: Exploring Civic Obligations in Web 2.0 Space. Presented at the 2010 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. April 1, 2010.
  • 2009. CyberPower: Social Production and Urban Politics. Presented at the 2009 American Sociological Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. August 10, 2009.
  • 2008. "Diversity in the Cloud." Keynote Talk at the 2008 Association of Lutheran College Faculty Annual Conference. Decorah, IA. June 30.
  • 2008. "When Diversity Works: Revising Putnam's Hunkering Thesis Using Off The Line Case Selection." Presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. March 17.
  • 2007. “Improving HIV Prevention and Care for Ventura County Latinos: A Case Study of Community-Based Action Research” with Adina Nack. Presented as part of the CLU Center for Leadership and Values Alma Peterson Distinguished lecture Series. May 3, 2007 and as part of the Social for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference. New York, New York. August 10.
  • 2007. “Youth Civic Engagement: Diversifying Neighborhood Councils in Los Angeles” with Haco Hoang. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Westin Hotel, Seattle, Washington. April 23.
  • 2007. “Will this Engagement Make it to the Alter? The Paradox of Diversity and Civic Engagement.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, California. February 17.
  • 2006. “Creating Cross-Culturally Engaged Citizens: The Challenge and Opportunities for Lutheran Higher Learning.” presented at the 2006 Association of Lutheran College Faculty annual conference, Nelson Room, Thousand Oaks, CA. October 5.
  • 2006. “You Call This Service? The Effect of Project Type on Deficiency Paradigms in a Service Learning Project.” Presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 20.
  • 2006. ”Boliamos Solos o Juntos? (Do we Bowl Alone or Together?): A Survey of Leadership Framings among Latino Youth.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mar 17. Also presented at the 2006. Segerhammer Faith and Life Conference. February 10, 2006.
  • 2006. “The Role of Frames in Promoting Diversity at Public Universities.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 20.
  • 2005. “Diversity Regimes: Building Coalitions for Increased Access at Public Universities” Presented at the 2005 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. Oakland, CA.
  • 2005. “When Does Gender fit into Diversity: Unpacking the Micropolitics of Diversity” Presented as part of the CLU Gender and Women’s Studies Speaker Series. March.
  • 2005. “The Struggle Over "Scapes": Bringing Identity into Minority Incorporation Theory” Presented as part of the CLU Gender and Women’s Studies Speaker Series. March.
  • 2005. Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, CA. 2004. “Governing Difference: The Role of Diversity Ecologies.” American Association of Colleges and Universities Diversity and Learning Conference. Nashville, TN. October 2004.