Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.https://bsky.app/profile/cward1e.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cward1e.bsky.social/post/3mgmyih3oy22aIt's a good Monday morning when your student's personal take on the Nepal election gets published. She argues Discord's trust and safety team probably don't understand how it was used by young voters over the past year in the lead up to the election. https://www.techpolicy.press/nepals-gen-z-used-tiktok-and-discord-to-win-a-historic-election/09 Mar 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:7nr5pcdbterco5fvvulqn53e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmyih3oy22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/cward1e.bsky.social/post/3mdi2hqfn4c2wReally looking forward to chatting with @eliothiggins.bsky.social tomorrow to discuss the insane journey we've been on since we first 'met' in 2011/2012, when we both started working on social media verification efforts. Little did we know how bananas everything would get. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:7nr5pcdbterco5fvvulqn53e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdi2hqfn4c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/cward1e.bsky.social/post/3luruzsauqk2sI wrote somethingfor @fullfact.org about the ways in which the disappearing archive makes their work even harder but more important. I'm a trustee & continue to be amazed at their resiliency in an age of AI slop and attacks against those who investigate accuracy. https://fullfact.org/technology/missing-information-disappearing-archives-data-sources/25 Jul 2025 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:7nr5pcdbterco5fvvulqn53e/app.bsky.feed.post/3luruzsauqk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/cward1e.bsky.social/post/3lo4b5sohh22wI’m about to give a talk at the Information Architecture conference in Philly in the beautiful Quaker meeting house. I love the bingo card (I know what Wawa is and I have a humanities BA)01 May 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:7nr5pcdbterco5fvvulqn53e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4b5sohh22whttps://bsky.app/profile/cward1e.bsky.social/post/3lmuknkecas26The very smart, very lovely @whitneyphillips.bsky.social has a new book out. As ever she's thinking about things in very different, but very important ways. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Apr 2025 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:7nr5pcdbterco5fvvulqn53e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmuknkecas26