I lend expertise to popular media outlets regarding my research.
Selected Press
- Viral urban legends: Buffalo WGRZ News (video)
- Divisive social media: NPR’s Tell Me More (audio), Time Magazine, and New York Times
- Communities impacted by algorithmic processes: Buffalo News and Medium.com
- Vaccine misinformation & legislation: Buffalo WIVB News
Public Lectures
Selected public talks and keynote lectures
- Keynote: July 7, 2020- “Data & Deception: Geographies of Misinformation and Incivility in Social Media” GeoInformatics-Forum . Salzburg, Austria
- Keynote: September 30, 2019- “Digital lives and digital lies: geographies of misinformation and incivility.” Deutscher Kongress für Geographie . Kiel, Germany.
- March 14, 2019- César E. Chávez Higher Education Speaker Series, Social Media: Destroying or Saving Democracy? Sierra College, Rocklin, California.
- December 8, 2018- "Regional Resilience in the information stream." Asia Pacific Development Forum. Zhaoqing, China.
- October 29, 2019- "Ubiquitous Intelligence, Disinformation & Smart Cities" (with Jessie Poon & Gordon Tan). International Export Workshop: The Science of the Smart City. Naples, Italy.
- Keynote: October 10, 2018- “The Internet Needs You: How Your Data Can Change the World.” Ada Lovelace Day Keynote. Hofstra University. Long Island, New York.
- Keynote: May 17, 2017- “Layers of social change: Gender and GIS. WAURISA.” Tacoma, Washington.
- Televised Roundtable: February 10, 2017- “Citystat 2.0 with Mayor Byron Brown” City of Buffalo, New York.
- March 12th, 2013- "Location! The Importance of Geo-data" (With Devin Gaffney, Mark Graham, and Catherine D’Ignazio). South By Southwest (SXSW), Austin, TX.
Online Public Lectures
- Interact: Slides from my 2022 AAG talk
- Watch: TEDx
- Watch: University of Kentucky, Sheep Camp
- Listen: "Debating and Defining the Emergent Field of Crowdsourcing Civic Governance" at the GeoThink Summer Institute