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AJ Alvero

@ajalvero.bsky.social
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Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society Affiliations with Departments of Information Science, Sociology, and Computer Science

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Exciting news: CREST Sociology is delighted to welcome two new colleagues: Juliette Saetre and Marshall Taylor! Check out their websites to learn more about their work: www.juliettesaetre.com and marshallataylor.com Welcome, Juliette and Marshall! 🎉
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PhD students (& new PhDs): I'm hiring a postdoc at Cornell (Ithaca) to conduct a novel study at the intersection of political economy and tech. Applications are due Oct 16. There are a LOT more details in the job ad so make sure to read it thoroughly: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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A Researcher Adds What’s Been Missing From the UC Testing Debate: Nuance
A new brief by a prominent scholar argues that some criticisms of the University of California’s test-free policy are predicated on assertions that simply aren’t true.
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Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 Job alert 🚨 The Department of Sociology at Ohio State University is hiring: 1) Asst prof in tech and society 2) Assoc or full prof in social stratification osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers?q... should pull up both openings Happy to answer questions.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/08/2026
This year, the Common App officially opened Aug. 1, marking the start of the 2026-2027 cycle. And like in many areas of education, AI is reshaping the college application experience.
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AI is reshaping college admissions as students navigate varying policies
Some schools offer detailed rules while others offer limited guidance or none at all.
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Annaliese Paulson @annaliesep.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/
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Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...
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Tina Law @tinalaw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I'll be presiding over a really fantastic panel on the Implications of AI for Qualitative, Quantitative, and Computational Sociology Research on Monday at ASA. Come join us and sorry it's so early!
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Chris Quintana @chrisquintana.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Florida loves the Classic Learning Test, an ACT/SAT competitor. It’s not about college applications though. High school leaders use it to pass students who failed the state’s exit exams. Grad rates are up, but some educators ask if that's good, my latest: www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
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Hegseth’s ‘gold standard’ college exam tests middle-school math
Held up as a new route to college admissions, the Classic Learning Test has instead become a remedial high-school graduation test in Florida.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Assistant Professor in Social Inequality
Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!
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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🙋 Looking for emergency reviewers for ARR May / #EMNLP2026 Topics: Interpretability/Explainability, RAG, Answer Attribution, Knowledge Conflicts If you're willing to complete a review before July 6 AoE, please reply or send a DM!
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What used to be the “wrong side of the tracks” is now Miami’s climate escape route, and Black residents are being pushed off the path they built. bit.ly/4efQntl
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As the Sea Rises and Rents Triple, Miami’s Black Neighborhoods Are Disappearing
What used to be the “wrong side of the tracks” is now the city’s climate escape route, and Black residents are being pushed off the path they built.
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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Talked to NPR for this story about the Canvas hacks. Short version: it’d be nice if schools were as concerned about protecting student data when there isn’t a ransom note involved. www.npr.org/2026/05/09/n...
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What to know about the Canvas hack of student data
Millions of students in universities and K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas, a classroom management tool used all over the country.
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Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Recently out in @ersjournal.com: @vanctran.bsky.social, Mehr Mumtaz, and I analyzed 50 years' worth of research about Asian diasporic populations. 🔓 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Asian diaspora research in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1978–2025
What research has been conducted on the Asian global diaspora, and who produces this knowledge? We compiled a corpus of 128 ERS articles published from 1978 to 2025, focusing on four Anglophone cou...
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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"...the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions. The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling..."
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Opinion | This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/03/2026
This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Florida bans sociology from core curriculum at state universities
For years, Republican lawmakers and education leaders have argued that sociology — especially high-enrollment introductory courses — has been overtaken by progressive ideology
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We’re delighted to announce a tenure track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEARCH. Fields: public management, implementation, governance, institutions & policy process. We will start reviewing applicants immediately & until position is filled. Start date is negotiable. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Management at USC
Learn more about applying for Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Management at USC
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Miriam Hurtado Bodell @mhbodell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory? @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future Out now: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...
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Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Ph.D. @divreyes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Academics in the UC and UT systems- please consider participating in this research & share in your networks. 🙏🏽
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Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Call for Submissions: AI for Social Science Methodology (Yale) • Keynote: @nachristakis.bsky.social • Panel with editors of leading journals on publishing AI research • Mentoring roundtables for early-career scholars • Generous travel support Discussion-driven, high-quality research.
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AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New work with Alejandra Regla-Vargas and @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social!!
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Henning Schoenenberger @schoenenberger.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Just read a generative AI sociology review laying out where the discipline stands with AI methods, found it useful. Still low trust in GenAI outputs. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... #OpenScience #Sociology #GenerativeAI
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 19/02/2026
Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.
Tennessee’s House Higher Ed Subcommittee chair has withdrawn his bill to end tenure in public universities after saying he “stumbled into a little bit of the history” and “got a little deeper than I thought I would.”

“It got me to thinking about political lines, pendulums, they’re always moving … I kind of think that way about tenure,” Republican Justin Lafferty told his subcommittee Wednesday in a brief but wide-ranging explanation for dropping the bill.

According to a video of the meeting posted on the state General Assembly’s website, Lafferty said he learned tenure goes back to the 1600s or 1700s, “a time when there weren’t that many highly educated folks,” so “it was very important to keep the best and the brightest.”
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Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026
La course des nouveaux usages associés aux modèles génératifs met la professions scientifiques à rude épreuve. Article précieux pour suivre l'état des usages #GenAI en sociologie sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... par @oms279.bsky.social, @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com et M. Taylor
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic OpportunityIntergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Now out in Sociological Science (How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
NEW: AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall A. Taylor, "Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Corrected link: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le
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Klint Kanopka @klint.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Excited to share a new call for papers for a special issue in Psychometrika focused on Data Intensive Methods in Psychometrics that I'll be guest editing with @kyliegorney.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social, @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social, and Ben Domingue: www.psychometricsociety.org/post/call-sp...
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Call for Papers: Psychometrika Special Issue - Psychometric Society
Data Intensive Methods in Psychometrics
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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How do Black and White Americans assess the legitimacy of another person’s racial self-identification? Using a series of survey experiments, authors @marissathompson.bsky.social, Sam Trejo, @ajalvero.bsky.social, and @daphmarts.bsky.social illustrate the characteristics that drive racial conceptions
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Policing the Boundaries of Blackness: How Black and White Americans Evaluate Racial Self-Identifications | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our new preprint. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!
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AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Sharing new work! The paper, forthcoming in Sociological Science, provides insight into two basic questions: are sociologists incorporating generative AI into their research practices? Why or why not? Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship. A growing body of work in sociology and related fields demonstrate...
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline Forthcoming, Sociological Science Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship, even among those who typically do not rely on #sociology link
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SocArXivBot @socarxivbot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline: osf.io/28wsq
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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall Taylor: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884 arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16884 arxiv.org/html/2511.16884
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AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Sharing a short piece I wrote for Hispanic Outlook about disaggregating Hispanic data in college admissions www.hispanicoutlook.com/articles/dis...
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Disaggregating Hispanic Data for Sharper Insights into College Admission Patterns
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Aggregating Hispanic data masks important subgroup differences in col...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/11/2025
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
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Starts in five minutes!!!!!
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AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Looking forward to the conversation!
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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Cornell Information Science is hiring a Teaching Professor! Apply this week for full consideration: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
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Cornell University, Information Science
Job #AJO30763, 2025-2026 CORNELL INFORMATION SCIENCE FULL-TIME TEACHING FACULTY SEARCH (OPEN-RANK TEACHING PROFESSOR), ITHACA CAMPUS  , Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Inspired to share some papers that I found at #COLM2025! "Register Always Matters: Analysis of LLM Pretraining Data Through the Lens of Language Variation" by Amanda Myntti et al. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01542
Title, authors, and abstract of the paper.Figure 3: Change of accuracy from first to final checkpoint on individual benchmarks shown as a range, with grey indicating the first checkpoint and colours indicating the last checkpoint. The random-guess threshold is shown as a grey vertical line in cases where at least one model falls below it. Bars and legend shown in order of average accuracy.
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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 11/09/2025
Research highlights the "state-of-the-art fallacy" in sociology, showing advanced NLP methods may not provide better insights than older ones. It emphasizes the need for methodological pluralism to align analysis with research questions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199
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Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
ArXiv link for Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang: Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08199 arxiv.org/html/2509.08199
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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
a thought I've been sitting on for a while is that AI researchers have conspicuously thin ideas about how language works, and have participated in violent reshapings of the world to make these ideas, and the technologies premised on them, make sense. more here: tisjune.github.io/papers/cscw_...
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Haley L. @haleyhaala.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I am so excited to host a panel with @ajalvero.bsky.social at #4S2025! If you're around next Saturday, join us for discipline-blending sessions and conversation under the theme of "Writing Things Down: Textual Technologies and their Consequences." @4sweb.bsky.social
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AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Swing by on November 6th! Will be on Zoom as well. Excited to share ongoing work about GenAI and sociology 😎
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Haley L. @haleyhaala.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies. doi.org/10.1177/0894...
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Linguistic Affordances Framework: A Linguistic-Sociological Approach for the Social Study of Language Technology - Haley Lepp, AJ Alvero, 2025
This paper describes a three-part framework to study how language technologies elucidate and shape linguistic relations in society. Reframing a mountain of evid...
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