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Congratulations to each of the honorees and their advisors!

Congratulations to the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award Winners We are thrilled to now announce this year's award winners and honorable mentions, who were selected from our most competitive pool of applicants ever

Learn more about their dissertation topics here:
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Winners: Benjamin Lira Luttges @lirabenjamin.bsky.social sky.social, Dan-Mircea Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social, Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social

Honorable mentions: Claire E. Robertson @crobertson500.bsky.social, Thomas Scheurer‬, Michael Geers @michaelgeers.bsky.social

The six outstanding scholars we acknowledge below have produced work with significant implications for how we understand technology's impact on human cognition, mental health, and decision-making.

We're excited to announce the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award winners! Please join us in congratulating them!

We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/

Link to pdf: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zotvy...

Yes, Americans are divided. But it doesn’t have to be this way Under the right conditions, we are surprisingly capable of communicating and co-existing across difference.

Happy to share this piece I wrote for the SF Chronicle on how we can have more productive, respectful political conversations. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

This is a thoughtful thread, thanks

@elijfinkel.bsky.social and @nourkteily.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc for their new Center for Enlightened Disagreement: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjI3Nw==

Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!

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Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi Waymo has opened its robotaxi service to everyone in Los Angeles, sunsetting a waitlist that had grown to 300,000 people. The Alphabet-backed company said starting Tuesday anyone can download the Waymo One app to hail a ride in its service area, which is…

Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi

Really fantastic paper led by Zarine Kharazian about governance capture within self-governing communities, featuring a case study of the Croatian language Wikipedia community. Zarine will be presenting at CSCW this week.

New job post at Northeastern! on AI governance. Hope to have some CSS applicants.

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🔮 Ten charts to understand the Exponential Age This week marks the 500th edition of the Sunday newsletter.

Ten charts showing tech diffusion by @azeem.bsky.social GenAI adoption is off to a faster start than the internet and computers (Fig 4)
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