My research examines how sociotechnical systems encode cultural meaning. I connect work on AI ethics and value alignment with digital hermeneutics and the cultural analysis of games, tourism, and platforms, with a sustained interest in how digital systems organize social values, represent places, and structure mobility.
Norms and Biases in AI
How algorithmic systems encode, enforce, and unsettle social norms, and who bears the cost.
- Interaction Protocol Shapes Moral Judgment in Multi-Agent Debate COLM 2026
- The Fabricated Front: GenAI and the Social Organization of Workplace Legibility PCAIDE 2026 (forthcoming)
- The Fragility of Moral Judgment in Large Language Models ACM FAccT 2026
- Normative Evaluation of Large Language Models with Everyday Moral Dilemmas ACM FAccT 2025
- Intersectional Experiences of Unfair Treatment Caused by Automated Computational Systems ACM CSCW 2022
- Discovering and Interpreting Biased Concepts in Online Communities IEEE TKDE 2021
- Bias and Discrimination in AI: a cross-disciplinary perspective IEEE T&S 2021
- Transparency for Whom? Assessing Discriminatory Artificial Intelligence IEEE Computer 2020
Digital Hermeneutics
Reading large text collections both closely and at scale.
- Digital Hermeneutics: Scaled Readings of Online Depression Discourses Medical Humanities 2021
- Predictively policed: The Dutch CAS case and its forerunners Manchester UP 2023
- Travel in the Digital Age Cambridge History of Travel Writing 2018
Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Space, movement, and meaning in designed worlds.
- Traveling Through Video Games Routledge 2023
- Video Games as Travel Writing Routledge 2022
- Ludonarrative Hermeneutics: A Way Out and the Narrative Paradox ICIDS 2018
- Touring the Animus: Assassin’s Creed and Ludotopical Movement Loading… 2017
- Playing the Panopticon: Procedural Punishment in Dark Souls Games & Culture 2016
- Procedural (E)motion: Journey as Emerging Pilgrimage J Popular Culture 2016
Tourism, Platforms & Place
How platforms mediate locality, authenticity, and the experience of place.
- Scripted Journeys: Authenticity in Hypermediated Tourism De Gruyter 2021
- Advancements in technology and digital media in tourism Tourist Studies 2021
- Algorithmic authenticity: Sociotechnical authentication processes on online travel platforms Tourist Studies 2019
- The production of locality on peer-to-peer platforms Cogent Social Sciences 2016
- Here I am: Authenticity and self-branding on travel blogs Tourist Studies 2015
Grants & Projects
DADD
King’s College London, 2019–2022 EPSRC
Cross-disciplinary collaboration on algorithmic bias and discrimination with academics and industry partners. Project site
REPHRAIN
UK National Research Centre, 2022 UKRI
Led research on intersectional discrimination in automated systems. Project site