Archive - Designing Tomorrow

Eight Policy Principles to Guide our Relationship with Digital Technology

Policies have enabled cars and airplanes to be used safely. No such policies exist for social media or AI. Progress is being made to fix this…

Published on After Babel • Jun 6

Congratulations to the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award Winners

We are thrilled to now announce this year's award winners and honorable mentions, who were selected from our most competitive pool of applicants ever

Jun 4 •

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April 2025

Social Media Experiences Across Nearly 2 Years Since Launching the Social Media Index

With new data through January 2025, we find that social media use is decreasing, bad experiences are mostly holding steady, and positive experiences are…

Apr 24 •

Social Media and Politics from 2023-2025

I examine the political identities, extremity, and polarization of US adults across platforms over a 2-year national survey.

Apr 1 •

February 2025

Court Agrees that Regulating Engagement Based Algorithms is Constitutional

A US District Court recently upheld that feed algorithms contain both expressive and non-expressive components, and that the non-expressive components…

Feb 4 •

January 2025

To Evaluate Meta’s Shift, Focus on the Product Changes, Not the Moderation

Meta’s recent announcements include two changes in its moderation efforts and one change to its algorithm design. The algorithm design changes are the…

Jan 15 •

November 2024

How Social Media Experiences Changed from March 2023 through May 2024

With new data through May 2024, we find that Reddit is increasingly informing users, while X isn’t across 5 survey waves conducted between 2023 & 2024

Nov 18, 2024 •

August 2024

Twitter/X Should Stop Incentivizing Fear Speech in the UK

We know enough about the physics of social media to know that an algorithm that optimizes for reposts and comments will increase the risk of violence.

Aug 6, 2024 •

How do Polish adults use and experience social media?

X and Facebook users report highest rates of negative experiences in Poland; YouTube users report the most learning experiences

Aug 5, 2024 •

July 2024

Do people still have meaningful connections on social media?

We examine how people’s connections with others online may have changed over 1 year marked by an influx of AI chatbots & unconnected content

Jul 29, 2024 •

May 2024

How Apple, Google, and Microsoft Can Help Parents Protect Children

The case for device-based age verification

Published on After Babel • May 29, 2024

Has social media become more (or less) informative in the last year?

Nextdoor & Pinterest lead the way in becoming more informative places for users; YouTube remains the most informative platform

May 22, 2024 •

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