Melanie Walsh and co-collaborators Sylvia Fernandez, Miriam Posner, Anna Preus, and Amardeep Singh’s project titled “Responsible Datasets in Context,” funded by a Mozilla Responsible Computing Challenge Award, received a Digital Project Award (Newcomer) from the American Studies Association. 

Melanie Walsh and co-authors Matt Miller and Dan Sinykin’s paper titled “BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering,” was accepted to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2025). Their BookReconciler tool can be viewed here on GitHub.  

Melanie Walsh gave an invited talk about her book in progress titled “Viral Authors: Postwar American Literature in the Age of Social Media and AI” at Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities.  

Ryan Calo was interviewed for a written and audio article titled “Live Cameras are Tracking Faces in New Orleans. Who Should Control Them?” published by NPR.  

Amy Zhang, Kevin Feng, and Jina Yoon’s CIP blog post titled “Can Provenance Save us from a Barrage of Synthetic Media?,” was cited in a Center for Democracy & Technology blog post titled “The Promise and Risk of Digital Content Provenance.”  

Martin Saveski and co-authors Tiziano Piccardi, Chenyan Jia, Jeffrey Hancock, Jeanne L. Tsai, and Michael S. Bernstein’s paper titled “Reranking Partisan Animosity in Algorithmic Social Media Feeds Alters Affective Polarization,” was published in Science.  

Jaime Snyder gave an invited seminar titled “Bespoke Encodings: Considering the Value of Radically Personal Visualization Practices,” at the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto.