As generative AI reshapes how information is shared, how do we keep the internet open while honoring the creators who sustain it? In a new interview, Creative Commons CEO Anna Tumadóttir explores how modernizing the quiet infrastructure behind the digital commons can help us safeguard trust and reciprocity for the future.
We sat down with Connect Humanity to learn more about how community-focused internet service providers function; the importance of the U.S. Treasury’s grant to help Connect Humanity become certified as a CDFI; how Connect Humanity’s model has shifted in response to the current funding environment; what the organization is learning about the ripple effect of internet connectivity; the enormous economic growth unleashed by affordable and reliable internet; the role of philanthropy in catalyzing change and piloting new initiatives; and the urgency of finding alternative and sustainable funding sources that spread the costs across an ecosystem of beneficiaries.
Sohyeon Hwang, PhD is in her second year as a Siegel Research Fellow. Sohyeon serves as a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University, where she studies community-based systems of governance in technologies, including decentralized social media and gig work. We sat down with Sohyeon to learn more about her recent work on inter-community governance processes, how she involves communities in her research, and strategies for overcoming some of the frictions that emerge from coordinating across decentralized social media communities.
Alexandra Mateescuis in her second year as a Siegel Research Fellow at Data & Society, where she has worked for the last decade. In this Q&A, Alexandra shares her research about the gendered experience of the gig economy; how AI is an extension of existing tools of surveillance and control of workers; and how workers themselves are building power and challenging existing narratives about the promise and peril of technology. We also discuss Alexandra’s new co-authored paperon the underlying dynamics of power, control, and ideology that are shaping AI adoption in the workplace.
Megan Rivera was a 2024-2025 Siegel Research Fellow and is a fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, where she studies the impact of AI on the labor market and economy, among other topics. We sat down with Megan to learn more about her recent policy brief, how she found her fit working in legislative politics, the potential for integrating worker voice into decision-making around AI, and how the Siegel Research Fellowship helped expand her horizons.
Kylan Rutherford is a Siegel Research Fellow at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics, where he studies the complex relationship between social media content creators, platform consumers, and the platforms themselves. We sat down with Kylan to learn more about his research on how AI is affecting search, misinformation, and data voids.
Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, where she studies the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a focus on its impacts on work and workers.
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We sat down with Brent Maddin of the Next Education Workforce Initiative at ASU, and George Vinton and Kelly Anguiano of Common Group to learn more about the role that administrative systems play in whether, when, and how schools choose to adopt innovative models; the ways in which these technological systems could be redesigned to help facilitate innovation; and the opportunities for both the supply side and the demand side of the market to develop solutions for making administrative systems in K-12 education more flexible.
We sat down with Project Tomorrow CEO Julie Evans to discuss why computational thinking skills are important for all learners to develop; how Project Tomorrow reaches teachers where they are; how a personalized and customized approach to professional learning can scale without losing quality; and why a “campfire approach” to innovation won’t change systems.