Platforms and mediation
When a platform or an answer engine supplies the first account of an issue, what happens to attention, disagreement, and everyday life.
- Aug 2026 Preprint When AI Becomes the First Pass: Source Selection, Conflict Retention, and Novel-Case Classification in AI-Mediated Interpretive Pipelines
- Mar 2026 Essay Occupied Lives: Platform Convenience and the Dissipation of Social Energy
- Mar 2026 Essay Generative Search and the Platformization of Sensemaking
Other threads
- Agents and audit How AI agents come to act in the world, and whether anyone can reconstruct afterwards what they did.
- Models and evaluation Small, measurable questions about how language models change, and the tools that make local experiments possible.
- Interactive worlds Characters, scenarios, and serial stories made with AI and held in place by designed constraints.