Sukrit Venkatagiri

@sukritv.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College 👨🏽‍🏫 Studying how AI-generated content impacts security, privacy, and trust in institutions and each other. Previously: UW, Virginia Tech, Meta, Microsoft Research. Website: https://www.sukritv.com

Barbie dancing asking "Do you guys ever think about social computing" (used to say "dying." Title is Social and Crowd Computing, CPSC91R, Fall 2023. Dr. Sukrit Venkatagiri.

However, when you blitzscale a new social media site into being, the audience arrives with context collapse already in play. They don’t know if this is a site to joke around with friends, to be professional, to bitch about politics, or what. And without having already set out to build vibrancy and negotiate norms, the vast majority of people who arrive to a blitzscaled context collapsed site sit around waiting for someone to norm-set for them.

Screenshot of paper title, authors, abstract, and ACM reference format. "Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation" by Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, and Kurt Luther.

Photo of the Washington Monument in front of the reflecting pool on a sunny day.