Publications
2025
Scholarly Works
N. Diakopoulos. Prospective Algorithmic Accountability and the Role of the News Media. Computer Ethics Across Disciplines: Deborah G. Johnson and Algorithmic Accountability. Eds. M. Noorman and M. Verdicchio. Springer. 2025. [pre-print]
2024
Scholarly Works
K. Kieslich, N. Diakopoulos, N. Helberger. Using Scenario-Writing for Identifying and Mitigating Impacts of Generative AI. EvalEval Workshop at NeurIPS. 2024. [PDF]
M. Allaham, K. Kieslich, N. Diakopoulos. Towards Leveraging News Media to Support Impact Assessment of AI Technologies. EvalEval Workshop at NeurIPS. 2024. [PDF]
J. Veerbeek and N. Diakopoulos. Using Generative Agents to Create Tipsheets for Investigative Data Reporting. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. 2024. [pre-print]
S. Nishal, E. Lee, and N. Diakopoulos. De-jargonizing Science for Journalists with GPT-4: A Pilot Study. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. 2024. [pre-print]
C. Li and N. Diakopoulos. Probing GPT-4 for Knowledge of Journalistic Tasks. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. 2024. [PDF]
J. Zier and N. Diakopoulos. Labeling AI-Generated News Content: Matching Journalist Intentions with Audience Expectations. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. 2024. [PDF]
H. Cools and N. Diakopoulos. Uses of Generative AI in the Newsroom: Mapping Journalists' Perceptions of Perils and Possibilities. Journalism Practice. 2024.
J. Barnett, K. Kieslich, N. Diakopoulos. Simulating Policy Impacts: Developing a Generative Scenario Writing Method to Evaluate the Perceived Effects of Regulation. Proceedings of the Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). 2024. [pre-print]
F. Yang, M. Cai, C. Mortenson, H. Fakhari, A. Lokmanoglu, N. Diakopoulos, E. Nisbet, M. Kay. The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2024. [pre-print]
A. Opdahl, N. Helberger, N. Diakopoulos. AI and The News. AI Magazine. 2024.
K. Kieslich, N. Diakopoulos, N. Helberger. Anticipating Impacts: Using Large-Scale Scenario Writing to Explore Diverse Implications of Generative AI in the News Environment. AI Ethics. 2024. [Link; pre-print]
N. Diakopoulos, H. Cooles, C. Li, N. Helberger, E. Kung, A. Rinehart. Generative AI in Journalism: The Evolution of Newswork and Ethics in a Generative Information Ecosystem. Associated Press Report. 2024. [PDF]
K. Kieslich, N. Helberger, N. Diakopoulos. My Future with My Chatbot: A Scenario-Driven, User-Centric Approach to Anticipating AI Impacts. Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). 2024. [pre-print]
N. Diakopoulos. Predictive Journalism. Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Eds. A. Nai, M. Grömping, D. Wirz. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. [pre-print]
S. Nishal, C. Li, N. Diakopoulos. Domain-Specific Evaluation Strategies for AI in Journalism. CHI Workshop on Evaluating Interactive AI. 2024. [PDF]
F. Yang, C. Mortenson, E. Nisbett, N. Diakopoulos, M. Kay. In Dice We Trust: Uncertainty Displays for Maintaining Trust in Election Forecasts Over Time. Proc. Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2024. [PDF] (Best Paper Award)
M. Allaham and N. Diakopoulos. Evaluating the Capabilities of LLMs for Supporting Anticipatory Impact Assessment. Arxiv. [pre-print]
S. Nishal, J. Sinchai, N. Diakopoulos. Understanding Practices around Computational News Discovery Tools in the Domain of Science Journalism. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). 2024. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, C. Trattner, D. Jannach, I. Costera Meijer, E. Motta. Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI. Communications of the ACM (CACM). 2024. [Web Link; PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. The Emergence of Computational Journalism at Georgia Tech, 2006-2008. Milestones in Digital Journalism. Ed. John V. Pavlik. Routledge. 2024. [pre-print]
Other Articles
N. Diakopoulos. Anticipating AI’s Impact on Future Information Ecosystems. Generative AI in the Newsroom. October, 2024. [Link]
J. Veerbeek and N. Diakopoulos. How Teams of AI Agents Could Provide Valuable Leads For Investigative Data Journalism. Generative AI in the Newsroom. September, 2024. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. A Right to Personal Use of Content with LLMs?. Generative AI in the Newsroom. August, 2024. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. The Impact of Generative AI on Journalistic Labor. Generative AI in the Newsroom. July, 2024. [Link]
M. Allaham, M. Crystal, M. Gomaa, N. Diakopoulos. Prompting Techniques and Best Practices for Journalists. Generative AI in the Newsroom. June, 2024. [Link]
C. Li and N. Diakopoulos. Here’s what GPT-4 Thinks Being a Journalist is All About. Generative AI in the Newsroom. May, 2024. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Fueling AI’s Future with DreamI/O. Generative AI in the Newsroom. April, 2024. [Link]
S. Nishal, C. Li, N. Diakopoulos. Blueprints for Evaluating AI in Journalism. Generative AI in the Newsroom. March, 2024. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Fair Use, Copyright, and the Challenge of Memorization in the NYT vs. OpenAI. Generative AI in the Newsroom. Feb, 2024. [Link]
2023
Scholarly Works
F. Yang, M. Cai, C. Mortenson, H. Fakhari, A. Lokmanoglu, J. Hullman, S. Franconeri, N. Diakopoulos, E. Nisbett, M. Kay. Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion, Trust, and Intention in the 2022 U.S. Midterms. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2023. [PDF] (Best Paper Award)
N. Hagar and N. Diakopoulos. Algorithmic Indifference: The Dearth of News Recommendations on TikTok. New Media & Society. 2023. [Link]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. Facebook's News Feed Algorithm and the 2020 U.S. Election. Social Media + Society. 2023. [Link]
B. Witzenburger and N. Diakopoulos. Election Predictions in the News: How Users Perceive and Respond to Visual Election Forecasts. Information, Communication and Society. 2023. [Link]
S. Petridis, N. Diakopoulos, K. Crowston, M. Hansen, K. Henderson, S. Jastrzebski, J. Nickerson, L. Chilton. AngleKindling: Supporting Journalistic Angle Ideation with Large Language Models. Proc. Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2023. [PDF]
T. Aitamurto, E. Borges-Rey, N. Diakopoulos. The Future of Design + Journalism: A Manifesto for Bridging Digital Journalism and Design. Digital Journalism. 2023. [Link]
S. Nishal and N. Diakopoulos. Envisioning the Applications and Implications of Generative AI for News Media. CHI Workshop on Generative AI & HCI. 2023. [PDF]
N. Helberger and N. Diakopoulos. ChatGPT and the AI Act. Internet Policy Review, 12(1). 2023. [Link]
Other Articles
N. Diakopoulos. Finding Evidence of Memorized News Content in GPT Models. Generative AI in the Newsroom. September, 2023. [Link]
H. Cools and N. Diakopoulos. Writing guidelines for the role of AI in your newsroom? Here are some, er, guidelines for that. Nieman Lab. July, 2023 [Link | Original Blog Post]
J.P. Quintais and N. Diakopoulos. A Primer and FAQ on Copyright Law and Generative AI for News Media. Generative AI in the Newsroom. April, 2023. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. How to use GPT-4 to summarize documents for your audience. Generative AI in the Newsroom. April, 2023. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Findings Newsworthy Documents Using Generative AI. Generative AI in the Newsroom. March, 2023. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Queries. Medium. Feb, 2023. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. What Could ChatGPT Do for News Production? Generative AI in the Newsroom. Feb, 2023. [Link]
2022
Scholarly Works
D. Shin, M. Hameleers, Y. J. Park, J. N. Kim, D. Trielli, N. Diakopoulos, N. Helberger, S. C. Lewis, O. Westlund, and S. Baumann. Countering Algorithmic Bias and Disinformation and Effectively Harnessing the Power of AI in Media. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 99 (4). 2022.
M. Allaham and N. Diakopoulos. Predicting COVID: Understanding Audience Responses to Predictive Journalism via Online Comments. New Media & Society. 2022. [Link]
S. Nishal and N. Diakopoulos. From Crowd Ratings to Predictive Models of Newsworthiness to Support Science Journalism. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). 2022. [Link]
N. Helberger and N. Diakopoulos. The European AI Act and How it Matters for Research into AI in Media and Journalism. Digital Journalism. 2022. [PDF]
J. Barnett and N. Diakopoulos. Crowdsourcing Impacts: Exploring the Utility of Crowds for Anticipating Societal Impacts of Algorithmic Decision Making. Proceedings of the Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). August, 2022. [PDF]
D Liu, P. Nanayakkara, S. Sakha, G. Abuhamad, S. L Blodgett, N. Diakopoulos, J. Hullman, T. Eliassi-Rad. Examining Responsibility and Deliberation in AI Impact Statements and Ethics Reviews. Proceedings of the Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). August, 2022. [PDF]
G. Lee, J. Sinchai, D. Trielli, N. Diakopoulos. Cataloging Algorithmic Decision Making in the U.S. Government. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. June, 2022. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, J. Bandy. H. Dambanemuya. Auditing Human-Machine Communication Systems Using Simulated Humans. Sage Handbook of Human-Machine Communication, Eds. Andrea L. Guzman, Rhonda McEwen, and Steve Jones, 2022. [PDF]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. All the News that’s Fit to Tweet: Sociotechnical Local News Distribution from the New York Times to Twitter. News Quality in the Platform Era. Eds. Phil Napoli and Regina Lawrence. Routledge. 2022. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Predictive Journalism: On the Role of Computational Prospection in News Media. Tow Center for Digital Journalism. 2022. [Link | PDF]
C. Colglazier and N. Diakopoulos. Predictive Models in News Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S.. International Communication Association (ICA) Conference. 2022.
D. Trielli and N. Diakopoulos. Algorithmic Agenda Setting: The Shape of Search Media During the 2020 US Election. #ISOJ Journal. 2022. (Top Paper Award) [Link]
Other Articles
N. Diakopoulos. There’s a 68 in 100 chance you’ll read this article about the audience for FiveThirtyEight-style election predictions. Nieman Lab. November, 2022. [Link]
2021
Scholarly Works
C. Trattner, D. Jannach, E. Motta, I. Costera Meijer, N. Diakopoulos, M. Elahi, A. Opdahl, B. Tessem, N. Borch, M. Fjeld, L. Øvrelid, K. De Smedt, H. Moe. Responsible Media Technology and AI: Challenges and Research Directions. AI and Ethics. 2021. [Link]
N. Hagar, N. Diakopoulos, B. DeWilde. Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests. Digital Journalism. 2021. [PDF]
Y. Wang and N. Diakopoulos. Highlighting High-Quality Content as a Moderation Strategy: The Role of New York Times Picks in Comment Quality and Engagement. ACM Transactions on Social Computing. 2021. [PDF]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. Curating Quality?: How Twitter’s Timeline Algorithm Treats Different Types of News. Social Media + Society. 2021. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos, D. Trielli, and G. Lee. Towards Understanding and Supporting Journalistic Practices Using Semi-Automated News Discovery Tools. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). 2021. (Impact Recognition) [PDF]
C. Tong and N. Diakopoulos. Searching for BLM: Search Behavior and Google Results During the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests. International Communication Association (ICA) Conference. 2021.
P. Nanayakkara, J. Hullman, and N. Diakopoulos. Unpacking the Expressed Consequences of AI Research in Broader Impact Statements. Proceedings of the Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). 2021. [PDF]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. More Accounts, Fewer Links: How Algorithmic Curation Impacts Media Exposure in Twitter Timelines. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). 2021. [PDF]
H. Dambanemuya and N. Diakopoulos. Auditing the Information Quality of News-Related Queries on the Alexa Voice Assistant. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). 2021. [PDF]
Y. Wang and N. Diakopoulos. Journalistic Source Discovery: Supporting The Identification of News Sources in User Generated Content. Proc. Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2021. [PDF]
D. Johnson and N. Diakopoulos. What To Do About Deepfakes. Communications of the ACM (CACM). 2021. [PDF]
Y. Wang and N. Diakopoulos. The Role of New York Times Picks in Comment Quality and Engagement. HICSS Track on Mediated Conversation. 2021. [PDF]
Other Articles
N. Hagar and N. Diakopoulos. How A/B testing can (and can’t) improve your headline writing. Nieman Lab. October, 2021. [Link]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. Amping up algorithmic transparency to govern online platform power. The Hill. April, 2021. [Link]
2020
Scholarly Works
P. Nanayakkara, N. Diakopoulos, J. Hullman. Anticipatory Ethics and the Role of Uncertainty. Workshop on Navigating the Broader Impacts of AI Research @ NeurIPS. 2020. [Link]
D. Gómez Zará and N. Diakopoulos. Characterizing Communication Patterns between Audiences and Newsbots. Digital Journalism. 2020. [PDF]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. #TulsaFlop: A Case Study of Algorithmically-Influenced Collective Action on TikTok. FAccTRec Workshop on Responsible Recommendation. September, 2020. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Artificial Intelligence and Journalism. The Encyclopedia of Journalism 2nd Edition. Sage. 2020.
C. Peterson-Salahuddin and N. Diakopoulos. Negotiated Autonomy: The Role of Social Media Algorithms in Editorial Decision Making. Media and Communication. July, 2020. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos and D. Johnson. Anticipating and Addressing the Ethical Implications of Deepfakes in the Context of Elections. New Media & Society. June, 2020 [PDF]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. Auditing News Curation Systems: A Case Study Examining Algorithmic and Editorial Logic in Apple News. Proc. International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). June, 2020 [PDF]
D. Trielli and N. Diakopoulos. Partisan Search Behavior and Google Results in the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections. Information, Communication and Society. May, 2020 [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Transparency. Oxford Handbook of Ethics and AI. Eds. Markus Dubber, Frank Pasquale, Sunit Das. May, 2020 [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Computational News Discovery: Towards Design Considerations for Editorial Orientation Algorithms in Journalism. Digital Journalism. March, 2020 [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, M. Dong, L. Bronner, and J. Bowers. Generating Location-Based News Leads for National Politics Reporting. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. March, 2020 [PDF]
D. Trielli and N. Diakopoulos. How Journalists Can Systematically Critique Algorithms. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. March, 2020 [PDF]
Y. Wang and N. Diakopoulos. Readers’ Perceptions of Personalized News Articles. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. March, 2020 [PDF]
H. Dambanemuya and N. Diakopoulos. “Alexa, what is going on with the impeachment?” Evaluating smart speakers for news quality. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. March, 2020 [PDF]
N. Hagar, J. Bandy, D. Trielli, Y. Wang, and N. Diakopoulos. Defining Local News: A Computational Approach. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. March, 2020 [PDF]
Other Articles
N. Diakopoulos. The Ethics of Predictive Journalism. Columbia Journalism Review. April, 2020. [Link]
2019
Scholarly Works
N. Diakopoulos. Towards a Design Orientation on Algorithms and Automation in News Production. Digital Journalism. November, 2019 [PDF]
M. Díaz and N. Diakopoulos. Whose Walkability?: Challenges in Algorithmically Measuring Subjective Experience. Proceedings of the ACM (PACM): Human-Computer Interaction: Volume 3, Issue CSCW. November, 2019 [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media. Harvard University Press. June, 2019. (Tankard Book Award Winner) [Link]
D. Trielli and N. Diakopoulos. Search as News Curator: The Role of Google in Shaping Attention to News Information. Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). May, 2019. (Best Paper Honorable Mention) [PDF]
C-G Lindén, H. Tuulonen, A. Bäck, N. Diakopoulos, M. Granroth-Wilding, L. Haapanen, L. Leppänen, M. Melin, T. Moring, M. Munezero, S. Sirén-Heikel, C. Södergård, H. Toivonen. News Automation: the rewards, risks and realities of ‘machine journalism’. WAN IFRA Report. March, 2019. [PDF]
N. Hagar and N. Diakopoulos. Optimizing Content with A/B Headline Testing: Changing Newsroom Practices. Media and Communication. 7 (1), 2019. [PDF]
J. Bandy and N. Diakopoulos. Getting to the Core of Algorithmic News Aggregators: Applying a Crowdsourced Audit to The Trending Stories Section of Apple News. Computation + Journalism Symposium. February, 2019. [PDF]
Other Articles
N. Diakopoulos. The journalistic newsfeed: editorial values and algorithms. Columbia Journalism Review. December, 2019. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Apple News is excluding local newsrooms from its coveted traffic bump. Columbia Journalism Review. September, 2019. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos and D. Johnson. How could deepfakes impact the 2020 US elections? Nieman Lab. June, 2019. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy. The Conversation. June, 2019. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major outlets. Columbia Journalism Review. May, 2019. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. What is machine learning and why should I care? Columbia Journalism Review. April, 2019. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Boosting local news with data journalism and automation. Columbia Journalism Review. January, 2019. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. What a report from Germany teaches us about investigating algorithms. Columbia Journalism Review. January, 2019. [Link]
2018
Scholarly Works
N. Diakopoulos. The Algorithms Beat. Data Journalism Handbook. Eds. Liliana Bornegru and Jonathan Gray. 2018. [Link]
M. Koliska and N. Diakopoulos. Disclose, Decode and Demystify: An Empirical Guide to Algorithmic Transparency. The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies. Eds. Scott Eldridge II and Bob Franklin. October, 2018.
N. Diakopoulos, D. Trielli, J. Stark, S. Mussenden. I vote for – How search informs our choice of candidate. In: Digital Dominance: The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. Eds. M. Moore and D. Tambini. June, 2018. Open Access [PDF]
Data-Driven Storytelling. Eds. N. Riche, C. Hurter, N. Diakopoulos, S. Carpendale. A.K. Peters / CRC Press. March, 2018. Amazon
N. Diakopoulos. Ethics in Data-Driven Visual Storytelling. Data-Driven Storytelling. Eds. N. Riche, C. Hurter, N. Diakopoulos, S. Carpendale. A.K. Peters / CRC Press. March, 2018.
S. Drucker, S. Huron, R. Kosara, J. Schwabish, and N. Diakopoulos. Communicating Data to an Audience. Data-Driven Storytelling. Eds. N. Riche, C. Hurter, N. Diakopoulos, S. Carpendale. A.K. Peters / CRC Press. March, 2018.
Other Articles
N. Diakopoulos. An algorithmic nose for news. Columbia Journalism Review. November, 2018. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Bots and the future of automated accountability. Columbia Journalism Review. September, 2018. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. There are a lot of rote tasks a good AI interviewer could do for you. Columbia Journalism Review. June, 2018. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Reporting in a Machine Reality: Deepfakes, misinformation, and what journalists can do about them. Columbia Journalism Review. May, 2018. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. The bots beat: How not to get punked by automation. Columbia Journalism Review. April, 2018. [Link]
2017
Scholarly Works
D. Trielli, J. Stark and N. Diakopoulos. Algorithm Tips: A Resource for Algorithmic Accountability in Government. Computation + Journalism Symposium. October, 2017. [PDF]
D. Park, S. Kim, J. Lee, J. Choo, N. Diakopoulos. N. Elmqvist. ConceptVector: Text Visual Analytics via Interactive Lexicon Building using Word Embedding. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). October, 2017. [PDF]
J. Stark and N. Diakopoulos. Using Baselines for Algorithm Audits. European Conference on Data and Computational Journalism. July, 2017. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Enabling Accountability of Algorithmic Media: Transparency as a Constructive and Critical Lens. Towards glass-box data mining for Big and Small Data. Eds. Tania Cerquitelli, Daniele Quercia, Frank Pasquale. Springer. June, 2017.
K. Assmann, N. Diakopoulos. Negotiating Change: Audience Engagement Editors as Newsroom Intermediaries. #ISOJ Journal. April, 2017. [Online Article Link]
Other Articles
D. Trielli and N. Diakopoulos. How to report on algorithms even if you’re not a data whiz. Columbia Journalism Review. May, 2017. [Link]
2016
Scholarly Works
J. Stark and N. Diakopoulos. Towards Editorial Transparency in Computational Journalism. Proc. Computation + Journalism Symposium. 2016. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos and M. Koliska. Algorithmic Transparency in the News Media. Digital Journalism. 5 (7), 2016. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Computational Journalism and the Emergence of News Platforms. The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. Eds. Scott Eldridge II and Bob Franklin. August, 2016. [PDF]
B. Shneiderman, C. Plaisant, M. Cohen, S. Jacobs, N. Elmqvist, N. Diakopoulos. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (6th Edition). Pearson. May, 2016. [Amazon]
S. Sachar, N. Diakopoulos. Changing Names in Online News Comments at the New York Times. Proc. International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). May, 2016. [PDF]
D. Park, S. Sachar, N. Diakopoulos, and N. Elmqvist. Supporting Comment Moderators in Identifying High Quality Online News Comments. Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). May, 2016. [PDF] (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
T. Lokot and N. Diakopoulos. News Bots: Automating News and Information Dissemination on Twitter. Digital Journalism. 4 (6), 2016. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Accountability in Algorithmic Decision Making. Communications of the ACM (CACM). Feb. 2016. [PDF]
Other Articles
J. Stark and N. Diakopoulos. Exploring the tension between transparency and user experience. Tow Center blog. December, 2016. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos and S. Friedler. How to Hold Algorithms Accountable. MIT Technology Review. November, 2016. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. BuzzFeed’s pro tennis investigation displays ethical dilemmas of data journalism. Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). November, 2016. [Link]
D. Trielli and N. Diakopoulos. How Google Shapes the News You See About the Candidates. Slate. November, 2016. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Top Programming Languages Trends: The Rise of Big Data. IEEE Spectrum. July, 2016. [Link]
D. Trielli, S. Mussenden, J. Stark, N. Diakopoulos. Googling Politics: How the Google issue guide on candidates is biased. Slate. June, 2016. [Link]
J. Stark and N. Diakopoulos. Uber seems to offer better service in areas with more white people. That raises some tough questions. Washington Post. March, 2016. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. We need to know the algorithms the government uses to make important decisions about us. The Conversation. May, 2016. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Peda(bot)gically Speaking: Teaching Computational and Data Journalism with Bots. Source. April, 2016. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. Artificial Moderation: A Reading List. Coral Project. March, 2016. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. How to Hold Governments Accountable for the Algorithms They Use. Slate. Feb., 2016. [Link]
2015
Scholarly Works
E. Momeni, C. Cardie, N. Diakopoulos. A Survey on Assessment and Ranking Methodologies for User-Generated Content on the Web. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 48 (3), 2015.
A. Olteanu, C. Castillo, N. Diakopoulos, K. Aberer. Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change. Proc. International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). May, 2015. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Picking the NYT Picks: Editorial Criteria and Automation in the Curation of Online News Comments. #ISOJ Journal. April, 2015. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, D. Elgesem, A. Salway, A. Zhang, K. Hofland. Compare Clouds: Visualizing Text Corpora to Compare Media Frames. Proc. IUI Workshop on Visual Text Analytics. March, 2015. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. The Editor’s Eye: Curation and Comment Relevance on the New York Times. Proc. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). March, 2015. [PDF]
J. Hullman, N. Diakopoulos, E. Momeni, E. Adar. Content, Context, and Critique: Commenting on a Data Visualization Blog. Proc. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). March, 2015. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Algorithmic Accountability: Journalistic Investigation of Computational Power Structures. Digital Journalism. 3 (3), 2015. [PDF]
Elgesem, D., L. Steskal and N. Diakopoulos. The Structure and Content of the Discourse on Climate Change in the Blogosphere: The Big Picture. Environmental Communication. 9 (2), 2015.
Other Articles
D. Trielli, S. Mussenden, N. Diakopoulos. Why Google Search Results Favor Democrats. Slate. Dec., 2015. [Link]
N. Diakopoulos. How Uber Surge Pricing Really Works. Washington Post. April, 2015. [Link]
2014
N. Diakopoulos, Stephen Cass, and Joshua Romero. Data-Driven Rankings: The Design and Development of the IEEE Top Programming Languages News App. Proc. Symposium on Computation + Journalism. Oral track. Oct, 2014. [PDF]
Yelena Mejova, Amy X. Zhang, Nicholas Diakopoulos and Carlos Castillo. Controversy and Sentiment in Online News. Proc. Symposium on Computation + Journalism. Poster track. Oct, 2014. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos and A. Zubiaga. Newsworthiness and Network Gatekeeping on Twitter: The Role of Social Deviance. Proc. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). June, 2014. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, A. Zhang, D. Elgesem, A. Salway. Identifying and Analyzing Moral Evaluation Frames in Climate Change Blog Discourse. Proc. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). June, 2014. [PDF]
T. Gao, J. Hullman, E. Adar, B. Hecht, N. Diakopoulos. NewsViews: An Automated Pipeline for Creating Custom Geovisualizations for News. Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2014. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Algorithmic Accountability Reporting: On the Investigation of Black Boxes. Tow Center for Digital Journalism. February, 2014. [PDF]
2013
Scholarly Works
N. Diakopoulos, A. Zhang, A. Salway. Visual Analytics of Media Frames in Online News and Blogs. IEEE InfoVis Workshop on Text Visualization. October, 2013. [PDF]
J. Hullman, N. Diakopoulos, E. Adar. Contextifier: Automatic Generation of Annotated Stock Visualizations. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). May, 2013. [PDF]
Other Articles
N. Diakopoulos. Rage Against the Algorithms. The Atlantic. October, 2013. [Link]
2012
N. Diakopoulos. Visual Analytics of Blog Corpora for Communication Scholars. IEEE InfoVis workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics. October 2012. [PDF]
A. Salway, N. Diakopoulos, D. Elgesem. Visualizing Information Diffusion and Polarization with Key Statements. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) workshop on Social Media Visualization. June, 2012. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, M. De Choudhury, M. Naaman. Finding and Assessing Social Media Information Sources in the Context of Journalism. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). May, 2012. [PDF] (Best Paper Honorable Mention)
N. Diakopoulos. Cultivating the Landscape of Innovation in Computational Journalism. Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. April 2012. [PDF]
M. De Choudhury, N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman. Unfolding the Event Landscape on Twitter: Classification and Exploration of User Categories. Proc. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). February, 2012. [PDF]
F. Kivran-Swaine, Sam Brody, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Mor Naaman. Of Joy and Gender: Emotional Expression in Online Social Networks. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Works in Progress. February, 2012.
2011
J. Hullman and N. Diakopoulos. Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects in Narrative Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. October 2011. [PDF]
S. Brody and N. Diakopoulos. Cooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using Word Lengthening to Detect Sentiment in Microblogs. Proceedings Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). July, 2011. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, F. Kivran-Swaine, M. Naaman. Playable Data: Characterizing the Design Space of Game-y Infographics. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). May, 2011. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos and M. Naaman. Topicality, Time, and Sentiment in Online News Comments. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Works in Progress. May, 2011. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Design Challenges in Playable Data. CHI Workshop on Gamification. May, 2011. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman, T. Yazdani, F. Kivran-Swaine. Social Media Visual Analytics for Events. In Social Media Modeling and Computing. Eds. Steven Hoi, Jiebo Luo, Susanne Boll, Dong Xu, Rong Jin, Irwin King. Springer Verlag. 2011. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman. Towards Quality Discourse in Online News Comments. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). March, 2011. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. A Functional Roadmap for Innovation in Computational Journalism. 2010-2011 (working paper) [PDF]
2010
N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman, F. Kivran-Swaine. Diamonds in the Rough: Social Media Visual Analytics for Journalistic Inquiry. Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). October, 2010. [PDF][Video][Vox Civitas Prototype]
Z. Yu, N. Diakopoulos, M. Naaman. The Multiplayer: Multi-perspective Social Video Navigation. In Proc. addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). October, 2010. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, D. A. Shamma. Characterizing Debate Performance via Aggregated Twitter Sentiment. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2010. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Modulating Video Credibility via Visualization of Quality Evaluations. WWW Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW). April, 2010. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos. Game-y Information Graphics. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Works in Progress. April, 2010. [PDF]
K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos, A. Bruckman. Edits & Credits: Exploring Integration and Attribution in Online Creative Collaboration. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) alt.chi. April, 2010. [PDF]
Nicholas Diakopoulos and Patrick Chiu. Photoplay: A Video Game for Tagging Photos on a Tabletop Display. United States Patent #7,686,682. Granted March 30, 2010.
2009
N. Diakopoulos, S. Goldenberg, I. Essa. Videolyzer: Quality Analysis of Online Informational Video for Bloggers and Journalists. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2009. [PDF]
2008
S. Yardi, K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos, A. Bruckman. Opening The Black Box: Four Views of Transparency in Remix Culture. CSCW Workshop on Tinkering, Tailoring, & Mashing: The Social and Collaborative Practices of the Read-Write Web. San Diego, November, 2008.
N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, I. Essa. Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game. ACM Multimedia. October, 2008. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. An Annotation Model for Making Sense of Information Quality in Online Video. International Conference on the Pragmatic Web (ICPW). September, 2008. [PDF]
P. Chiu, J. Huang, M. Back, N. Diakopoulos, J. Doherty, W. Polak, X. Sun. mTable: Browsing Photos and Videos on a Tabletop System. ACM Multimedia Video Program. 2008. [YouTube Link]
2007
N. Diakopoulos, P. Chiu. PhotoPlay: A Collocated Collaborative Photo Tagging Game on a Horizontal Display. In Proceedings addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). Newport, Rhode Island, October 2007. [Abstract] [Poster]
A. St. Clair, M. Fong, N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. NARC: The News Article Revision Comparator. In Proceedings addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). Newport, Rhode Island, October 2007 [Abstract] [Poster]
N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y. Medynskiy, I. Essa. The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix Society. In Proceedings of Hypertext and Hypermedia. Manchester, UK, September 2007. [PDF]
K. Luther, N. Diakopoulos. Distributed Creativity. Creativity and Cognition Workshop on Supporting Creative Acts Beyond Dissemination. Washington, DC. June 2007. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, Y. Medynskiy, I. Essa. Remixing Authorship: Reconfiguring the Author in Online Video Remix Culture. Georgia Tech, Technical Report. GIT-IC-07-05. 2007. [PDF]
2006
N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Videotater: An Approach for Pen-Based Digital Video Segmentation and Tagging. In Proceedings of User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). Montreux, Switzerland, October 2006. [PDF]
2005
N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Supporting Personal Media Authoring. ACM Multimedia workshop on Multimedia for Human Communication (MHC). Singapore, November 2005. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. Mediating Photo Collage Authoring. In Proceedings of User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). Seattle, USA, October 2005. [PDF] [Webpage]
N. Diakopoulos, P. Stephenson. Anti-Aliased Lines Using Run-Masks. Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 24, no. 2, 2005, pp 165-172.
2004
H. Rehatschek, N. Diakopoulos, G. Kienast, V. Hahn, T. Declerck. DIRECT-INFO: A Distributed Multimodal Analysis System for Media Monitoring Applications. European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology (EWIMT 2004), London, UK, November 2004. [PDF]
U. Bischoff, N. Diakopoulos, F. Loesch, Y. Zhou. ThemeExplorer: A Tool for Understanding the History of the Field of Information Visualization. InfoVisFun 2004, Austin, USA, October, 2004. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa, and R. Jain. Content Based Image Synthesis. Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2004, Dublin, Ireland, July 2004. pp 299-307. [PDF] [Webpage]
2003
S. Volmer and N. Diakopoulos. Contextually Meaningful Representation of Color for the Description of Visual Content. 6th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Miami, USA, September 2003. [PDF]
N. Diakopoulos and S. Volmer. Temporally Tolerant Video Matching. SIG IR Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop 2003, Toronto, Canada, August 2003. [PDF]
Peter Stephenson, Bruce Litow, and Nicholas Diakopoulos. Using Line Structure Information to Enhance Line Drawing in Digital Systems. US Patent #: WO03052733. July 26, 2003.