New paper time! 📄🎉 With @afsanehrazi.bsky.social, Aleksandra Sarcevic, @drchole.bsky.social, @robin-burke.bsky.social, and Katherine Wright, we write about how #RecSys for social good needs participatory design & evaluation. Coming soon to arXiv & ACM TORS. md.ekstrandom.net/pubs/tors-co...

🧒 Youth Online Safety in News w/@afsanehrazi.bsky.social,@elhamagk.bsky.social , @md.ekstrandom.net , and Matt Namvarpour, 📰 3.9K+ articles (2002–2024) 📈 Focus shifted to tech platforms & bullying 💬 Sentiment more negative over time 📌 Trends linked to policy & events 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

The ETHOS Research Lab had a strong presence at today’s DEGS conference at Drexel University. Our doctoral students presented their research on chatbots and teen online safety, tech for epilepsy self-management, and generative AI-risks for youths. #DEGS2025 #ETHOSLab #Drexel

We are excited to share that our paper "Opaque Transparency: Gaps and Discrepancies in the Report of Social Media Harms" was presented at ACM CHI 2025. Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1145/3706...

Chatbots Shouldn’t Harass You We reviewed 35,000+ user reviews of the Replika chatbot and found over 800 cases of harassment — including sexual advances, unwanted photo requests, and emotional manipulation.

new paper is up! we look at drug-related hashtags on tiktok to see how they are used and their content. what we find? no, #tiktok users are NOT using the platform to promote harmful behavior but rather to provide support for those in #recovery, advocate for #harmreduction arxiv.org/abs/2501.16123

Howdy 👋 We are the Data, Ontology, Networks, Usability, Textuality, and Safety (DONUTS) Collaboratory @ Drexel College of Computing and Informatics led by @afsanehrazi.bsky.social @rezapour.bsky.social John Seberger! Here is where you can find us: 🌐: donutscolab.com 🐦: twitter.com/DONUTSColab