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Angèle Christin

Associate Professor of Communication, and, by courtesy, of Sociology, Stanford University | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI

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Angèle Christin is an Associate Professor of Communication and Richard E. Guggenhime Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. She examines how AI technologies and professional cultures shape one another. She has pursued this program through ethnographic studies of different sites transformed by digital quantification and automation: journalists in web newsrooms, judges and prosecutors in criminal courts, and influencers on social media platforms.

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Internal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms

Chenyan Jia, Chunchen Xu, Jeanne Tsai, Jeffrey Hancock, Michael Bernstein, Angèle Christin
Sciences (Social, Health, Biological, Physical)Communications, MediaAug 21

Social media platforms are too often understood as monoliths with clear priorities. Instead, we analyze them as complex organizations torn between starkly different justifications of their missions. Focusing on the case of Meta, we inductively analyze the company’s public materials and identify three evaluative logics that shape the platform’s decisions: an engagement logic, a public debate logic, and a wellbeing logic. There are clear trade-offs between these logics, which often result in internal conflicts between teams and departments in charge of these different priorities. We examine recent examples showing how Meta rotates between logics in its decision-making, though the goal of engagement dominates in internal negotiations. We outline how this framework can be applied to other social media platforms such as TikTok, Reddit, and X. We discuss the ramifications of our findings for the study of online harms, exclusion, and extraction.

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Walking the Walk of AI Ethics in Technology Companies

Andrew Smart, Riitta Katila, Sanna J. Ali, Angèle Christin
Ethics, Equity, InclusionIndustry, InnovationDec 07

In this brief, Stanford scholars present one of the first empirical investigations into AI ethics on the ground in private technology companies.

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Tuning Our Algorithmic Amplifiers: Encoding Societal Values into Social Media AIs

Angèle Christin
Design, Human-Computer InteractionMachine LearningCommunications, MediaOct 20

The values built into social media algorithms are highly individualized. Could we reshape our feeds to benefit society?