Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3ml2bnu5rgk2cIf one of my papers was critiqued in this way I would crawl into a hole and die [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2bnu5rgk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3ml2bjubch22cMan, the Chess soundtrack has so many absolute bangers04 May 2026 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2bjubch22chttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mkkpwzubq22hThe NYT has been a bellwether of elite opinions in the US for more than a hundred years. The enormous shift away from liberal commitments to trans civil rights and liberty in the last ten years is accurately reflected-- some might say pushed by and justified by-- their coverage. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkpwzubq22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mkkps7trss2hTrump's brilliant mission to tank American scientific prowess continues unabated: https://apnews.com/article/national-science-board-nsf-trump-6a23f3ab1b4c6eb131b4e79d95b3536f28 Apr 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkps7trss2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mk654f2ijs2dI applaud this type of targeted pettiness. NYPD officers get away with this kind of stuff all the time. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk654f2ijs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mjmrmerrhk2m🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305126143479616 Apr 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmrmerrhk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3miyg6ibzps2oIf you liked this week's disinfo as narrative paper, you might like this earlier paper about the moral panic about Drag Queen Story Hour and how anti-trans narratives recreate older anti-queer narratives, which, we argue, is why they are so successful. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07491409.2024.2396288 [Paywalled]08 Apr 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyg6ibzps2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mitfq4vmi22k🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2026.2644198#abstract06 Apr 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitfq4vmi22khttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mieipwyftk25Happy Trans Day of Visibility! We live in a dark time for trans people :( Today, I donated to the Transgender Law Center and the Trans Youth Emergency Fund in honor of my trans friends and colleagues & urge you to do the same! www.transyouthequality.org transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/ https://www.transyouthequality.org/31 Mar 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mieipwyftk25https://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3miehu2d3yk25GenX alert: I bought a wallet chain for my phone after leaving it at the playground yet again (nobody stole it - tell me again how NYC is a hellhole). Highly recommend, haters back off www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZFVPXFD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZFVPXFD31 Mar 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3miehu2d3yk25https://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mhmjetzu7k2sAcademic personal ads: looking for another internet studies person with a tween to write a paper on Steal A Brainrot. (Not kidding it’s so weird and interesting and I hear about it all day long every day)22 Mar 2026 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhmjetzu7k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mhijwpbtns22Fantastic interview with Renee who breaks this down for those of you who haven't followed the Biden v. Missouri / censorship industrial complex debate over disinfo research [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2026 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhijwpbtns22https://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mhefu6tco22qJournal editing is garbage. Is it AI? 1) cited a piece "Blinded by the Light" and I was told to remove "Blinded" to de-anonymize my manuscript. 2) Claimed 5-6 in-text references weren't in the reference list; then highlighted the same in the ref list & said they weren't cited in the text.18 Mar 2026 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhefu6tco22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mhdlmd3tos2vResearchers in all sorts of fields have come to terms with the political ramifications of their research findings, from historians to biologists to computational social scientists. Focusing on "proving" a heavily discredited theory suggests a motive beyond scientific curiosity. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdlmd3tos2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mhbtvyij4k2vAs usual @justinhendrix.bsky.social brings cogent analysis. New report on worldwide decline of democracy shows that the US has declined incredibly fast in one year- it usually takes a DECADE to get to this point. That's why none of us can wrap our head around politics & why we're all so miserable [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Mar 2026 20:49 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbtvyij4k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mhb53simts23Thanks to Meghan McCarty Carino for having me on @marketplace.org yesterday to talk scams and the tech industry's new "pledge" www.marketplace.org/story/2026/03/16/tech-companies-pledge-to-cooperate-in-fighting-scams https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/03/16/tech-companies-pledge-to-cooperate-in-fighting-scams17 Mar 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhb53simts23https://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mgsuq75ewc2iBOOM!!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsuq75ewc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mgs5asui422nI cannot tell you how much Knight and @thecoalition.bsky.social are doing us all a huge solid on this. as a naturalized citizen i'm low risk but it's abhorrent for the administration to use immigration law as a way to shut down legitimate, independent, empirical research they don't like [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgs5asui422nhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mgs3bd5ohs2rNot only am I (& @nancybaym.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @zizip.bsky.social & probably dozens of other friends) in Grammarly's garbage "expert review" feature, they categorize my work completely incorrectly. This feature is not just thievery but useless.11 Mar 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgs3bd5ohs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mgrzpmqs7c2hThanks so much @bryanrwalsh.bsky.social for this fantastic coverage of my AI scams work at Aspen Digital's Crosscurrents last week- the more we can push coverage of this issue the more likely we are to get regulation (hint: platforms, esp meta, are a key intermediary) https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/482111/ai-cybercrime-fraud-billions-losing11 Mar 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrzpmqs7c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mgrz7fa4x22h🚨NEW REPORT🚨 https://datasociety.net/library/deepfake-financial-fraud/ Deepfake Financial Fraud: The Global Regulation of AI-Driven Scams - a collab with Anya Schiffrin & Navya Sinha, Anusha Wangnoo, Kaylee Williams, Elnara Huseynova & Audrey Hatfield at @columbiasipa.bsky.social11 Mar 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrz7fa4x22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alicetiara.bsky.social/post/3mfmyk7pq4c27In the early 2010s, I formed the Selfie Researcher Network with a bunch of other great comm/media/internet scholars. This week my dear husband fixed all the broken links and added it to Github. Witness 2014's most cutting edge scholarship: www.selfieresearchers.com https://www.selfieresearchers.com/24 Feb 2026 20:21 +0000at://did:plc:f5azbajpc6ymlu5r6fbrrd3h/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfmyk7pq4c27