Laurent Wang

I was honored to give an invited talk at @ikmz.bsky.social on my research into technology, privacy & inequality. I am very grateful to @tobiasdienlin.com for the kind invitation, and to the audience members for their generous engagement and thoughtful feedback.

Thank you @tobiasdienlin.com for inviting me! Looking forward to sharing my research with the @ikmz.bsky.social community!

Just wrapped up #MediaPsych2025 in Duisburg, Germany! I received incredibly helpful feedback in the PhD workshop and presented two studies (one on privacy protection and one on the digital divide). I’m grateful for the supportive community and looking forward to the next one!

Our recent mixed-methods research shows that risk and efficacy perceptions of algorithmic bias can be shaped by demographic backgrounds. Check out the paper (open access) for more details!

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!

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w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

I was incredibly honored to receive the James J. Bradac Award for Excellence in Research, which recognizes a graduate student for sustained contributions to the field of human communication. I’m grateful for the mentorship and encouragement I’ve received over the years.

Next up for our #ICA25 presentations: Risk, Race, and Algorithms: Understanding Perceptions of Algorithm Bias Through the RPA Framework 🧠🤖
By @overbye.bsky.social, @garciaerick.bsky.social, Zhang & @laurentwang.bsky.social
📅 Sunday June 15
🕟 4:30–5:45 PM
📍Grays Peak B (Grand Conv Center 2)

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Drawing from digital divide theory, our recent research reveals that social inequalities can shape AI literacy, ChatGPT use, and educational outcomes. Check out the two papers:
ChatGPT Use Activities: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
ChatGPT Acceptability: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We argue that to theoretically broaden the scope of the tech maintenance research, and practically inform policy, we need to look beyond individual-level phenomena to understand how community- and institutional-level factors shape existing social and digital inequalities.

In this research, Amy Gonzales and I adopted a social ecological approach to understanding people's experience of keeping themselves digitally connected across the individual, network, and institutional levels.

I had the honor of presenting my research on U.S. low-income adults' barriers and strategies related to maintaining the quality of their digital devices at the #CommHorizons Conference at UC Davis! 🧵

This paper was published in JA's special issue on Surveillance and Ethics in Advertising. We are grateful to the editors for their feedback and support during the revision process!
@segijn.bsky.social @Joanna Strycharz @sophieboerman.bsky.social

Seeing Ad Transparency More Clearly: Public Perception, Use of Ad Transparency Tools, and Responses to Dataveillance Advertising transparency efforts aim to facilitate user knowledge and control over the use of their data for personalized advertising. We seek to understand the perceptions and use of ad transparen...

My recent study (OA) found that people's perceived surveillance did not differ as a function of exposure to ad transparency info, but it was related to various cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes of personalized advertising. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations!!

7/9 see you at #ica25!

I started this project during my first year as an MA student and we've gone through a long way trying to publish it: 3 rounds of revision & 7 reviewers. Well, that pretty much says everything...

Mastering boundaries: differences in online privacy boundary phenomena across digital devices and years Multiple digital communication devices provide varying capabilities and processes for self-disclosure, surveillance, and privacy management, therefore eliciting a variety of user privacy perception...

It's only been 7 days since the start of 2025 and I've already had 2 journal rejections sitting in my inbox😅 But still I'm happy to share that my paper with Ron Rice on device & time comparisons in online privacy phenonema has just been published in BIT!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

doi.org/10.1177/1461...

@laurentwang.bsky.social

Thanks for posting our study!

Thanks for such kind words! That meeting was certainly one of the most uplifting experiences I had at NCA. Looking forward to reconnecting at future conferences!

First post here! This year’s #NCA24 to me was all about learning new things and making new connections! I’m grateful to all the meaningful conversations that made me laugh and feel uplifted❤️