Governments and public health institutions across the globe have set social distancing and
stay-at-home guidelines to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. With reduced opportunities to …

Algorithms are an increasingly important element of internet infrastructure in that they are
used to make decisions about everything from mundane music recommendations through to …

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of
machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of …

In times of physical distancing, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic, people are likely to
turn to digital communication to replace in-person interactions. Yet, persisting digital …

What role do ideologically extreme media play in the polarization of society? Here we report
results from a randomized longitudinal field experiment embedded in a nationally …

Aims The COVID-19 pandemic forced closure of most US university campuses in March
2020, obliging millions of students to finish their semesters via remote learning. This study …

AI-based systems, and especially voice-based AI systems, are gaining popularity and set
novel requirements for end users. Research has provided first approaches postulating and …

Despite recent widespread deployment of differential privacy, relatively little is known about
what users think of differential privacy. In this work, we seek to explore users' privacy …

Considerable scholarship has established that algorithms are an increasingly important part
of what information people encounter in everyday life. Much less work has focused on …

With the permeation of digital media into all spheres of life, individual-level efforts to manage
information abundance and constant availability have become more common. To date …