Online Community and Communication Research

Jeremy Foote

My research interests

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Some recent projects

Project 1: Rehabilitative AI Conversations

  • Can conversations with chatbots can help problematic users?
  • ~10 large subreddits, large field experiment
  • Mixed methods
    • Analyzing conversations
    • Tracking users before and after the intervention

Project 2: Companion AI and Privacy

  • How do people understand and navigate the privacy risks that come with talking to companion AI?
  • Interviews with companion AI users
  • AI are available, non-judgmental, and disconnected from social networks, which all encourage sharing

Getting students involved

  • I love to collaborate with students on projects that they lead
  • I have been working with computer science undergrads more and more
  • A few projects have come out of Intro to Programming course projects
    • Comparing how different subreddits perceive risk
    • Looking for parasocial relationships in YouTube comments
    • Using AI to interview trolls
    • Testing the influence of narratives on persuasion in r/ChangeMyView