Publications and Press


Below are a selected list of words by and about me and my work. Please reference my living CV for a full and more updated list.

Note: * means equal contribution and ± means a student I mentored or taught :-)

Selected Academic, Peer Reviewed Publications

[Forthcoming] Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse. N. Lutz*, P. Dhawka*, K. Starbird. CSCW 2025. Preprint available on request.

We’re not all construction workers”: Algorithmic Compression of Latinidad on Tiktok. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 8, Issue CSCW2 Article No. 480, Pages 1 - 31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687019. N. Lutz, C. Aragon. 2024.

Mediating The Marginal: A Quantitative Analysis of Curated LGBTQ+ Content on Instagram. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). ACM, Article 791, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713618 G. Souza, N. Lutz, K. Turner. 2025

“I don't see myself represented here at all": User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harms across Gender Identities and Nationalities. N. Lutz*, S. Ghosh*, A. Caliskan. AIES 2024 https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/31650/33817.

Working with Color: How Color Quantization Can Aid Researchers of Problematic Information. N. Lutz*, J. Padensky*±, J. Schafer. CSCW 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681863

Selected Public Scholarship (internally reviewed)

Discrepancies remain in implementation of social media election information policies in English and Spanish in-platform searches. N. Lutz, A. Lopez, D. Tomson. 2024.

Discrepancy in implementations of social media election information policies in English and Spanish in-platform searches. N. Lutz, M. Bayar, D. Tomson, K. Starbird. 2024.

Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attempt. D. Tomson, K. Starbird, N. Lutz, S.Prochaska, A. Aske, M. Haughey, J. Schafer, Z, Kharazian, A. Awwal, and M. Grass. 2024.

A boosted video resonates with ‘border crisis’ and ‘rigged election’ frames. M. Bayar, A. Aske, N. Lutz, J. Schafer, S. Prochaska, K. Starbird. 2024.

Selected Essays (not peer reviewed)

I did an arts festival as a non-pro artist and here’s how it went

A Year (2020) of (almost) Daily (code) Sketches

‘Cuties’, Netflix, and Computation

Are you there Twitter? It's me, Nina.

A Pictorial Analysis of Disney Female Characters: Wrists and Worries

A Pictorial Analysis of Disney Male Characters: Princes and Reflections

Selected Press

'Sadbait': Why algorithms, audiences and creators love to cry online an article by Aidan Walker in BBC, covering some of my work on "AI Slop".

NY Times featured my laboratory and our election integrity research efforts. Peep me playing with my hair while looking through data.

GeekWire wrote about our rapid response article on the rumors and aesthetics after the Trump assassination attempt.

An NPR article featured my study on Spanish-English search discrepancies on platforms regarding misleading election claims.

Super excited to have been featured on Exolore podcast by Moiya McTier (@GoAstroMo). You can listen to us chat here.