Weekly Media Update

Week of August 1, 2025

Warren Center Affiliates at IC2S2

Twenty-one posters, sessions, tutorials, and keynote talks from Warren Center faculty affiliates appeared at the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping, Sweden. A huge congratulations to these affiliates for their impressive research. See more about their work in the links below.

Trump’s AI Plan Calls for Massive Data Centers. Here’s How It May Affect Energy in the US

President Trump’s plan to boost AI and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it. In a recent AP News article, Benjamin C. Lee shares an informed perspective on how the building of massive data centers will impact the energy needs of the US.

Returning to Prosperity: Harnessing Technology to Raise Living Standards and Boost Productivity in Australia

7/30: The Australian National University | Christopher Yoo

Rethinking Carbon Offset Audits

7/29: Penn Carey Law | Cary Coglianese

Personalized Pricing: History, Economics, and Impact of AI-Driven Price Discrimination

7/28: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon 

Neural Responses to Peers Moderate Conversation-Drinking Associations in Daily Life

7/24: Scientific Reports | Dani Bassett and Emily Falk

The Media Bias Detector: A Framework for Annotating and Analyzing the News at Scale

7/24: IC2S2 2025 Session and Poster | Chris Callison-Burch and Duncan Watts

Structural Diversity and Network Versatility Are Higher in Informal Structures of Collaboration

7/24: IC2S2 2025 Session | Sandra González-Bailón

Exploring Political Attitudes Under Selective Media Consumption With Large Language Models

7/24: IC2S2 2025 Poster | Duncan Watts

Integrating Explanation and Prediction in Computational Social Science

7/24: IC2S2 2025 Keynote | Duncan Watts

Integrative Experiments Identify the Effects of Tasks on Group Performance

7/24: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

News-Like Information Ecosystem on YouTube

7/24: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

Quantifying Partisanship in TV News Using Large Language Models

7/24: IC2S2 2025 Poster | Duncan Watts

The Hidden Organization of Online Communities: Reddit Through the Lens of Stochastic Block Models and Neural Embeddings

7/23: IC2S2 2025 Poster | Sandra González-Bailón

Cultural Knowledge Injection

7/23: IC2S2 2025 Session | Lyle Ungar

Culturally-Adaptive Conversations: A Benchmark Dataset for LLMs

7/23: IC2S2 2025 Poster | Lyle Ungar

A Framework for Exploring the Effect of Selection and Framing Bias in News Through LLM-Generated Synthetic Articles

7/23: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

A Synthetic Dataset and Framework to Test Pre-processing Algorithms of Human Mobility Data

7/23: IC2S2 2025 Poster | Duncan Watts

Common Sense Around the World

7/23: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

Integrative Experiments Identify How Punishment Impacts Welfare in Public Goods Games

7/23: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

Online Platforms & Algorithms

7/22: IC2S2 2025 Session Chair | Sandra González-Bailón

Learning Acceleration Algorithms for Fast Parametric Convex Optimization With Certified Robustness

7/22: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Efficient RL for Optimizing Conversation Level Outcomes With an LLM-Based Tutor

7/22: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

The Effect of Trajectory Sparsity on Epidemic Modeling Outcomes

7/22: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

Evaluating Commonsense Knowledge in Human and Large Language Model-Simulated Populations

7/22: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

Feelings Don't Care About Facts: Persuasive Effect of Framing Outweighs Factuality

7/22: IC2S2 2025 Poster | Duncan Watts

Rightwing Narratives Outnumber Mainstream Narratives in US Political Media Eight Years Straight

7/22: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

Trapped by Personalization: LLM-Assisted Recommendations and Their Hidden Impact on Human-AI Ecosystems

7/22: IC2S2 2025 Session | Duncan Watts

The Impact of Language Mixing on Bilingual LLM Reasoning

7/21: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Research Cartography With Atlas

7/21: IC2S2 2025 Tutorial | Duncan Watts

Study Casts Further Doubt on Voluntary Carbon Market

7/18: E&E News by Politico | Cary Coglianese

Sparse Navigable Graphs for Nearest Neighbor Search: Algorithms and Hardness

7/18: arXiv | Sanjeev Khanna

T-FIX: Text-Based Explanations With Features Interpretable to eXperts

6/30: Preprint | Bhuvnesh Jain and Lyle Ungar

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