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Welcome to my personal website! I am Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, researcher at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, where I study civic machines.

What are civic machines?


In 2000 the creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, introduced the concept of social machines to describe ecosystems, in which individuals and algorithms participate and interact detached from their materiality, forming complex interaction patterns. Among others, online social networks, algorithmic decision making (ADM) systems, search engines, are all types of social machines, with individuals, software and hardware constantly interacting and resulting in emergent system states.

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Civic machines are a subset of social machines, which are designed and function under the idea that technology should serve individuals and the society in a way that ensures equality, justice, political freedom and social inclusiveness.

Civic machines are the β€œtelos” of my empirical and theoretical investigations. Through my research, articles, talks, interviews, and other activities, I showcase political issues as functions of existing social machines and provide ideas, frameworks, and practical solutions towards just, inclusive and participatory socio-algorithmic ecosystems.

Contact me at orestis@princeton.edu with any requests or if you just want to chat!



Updates

  • 13. Dec 2021
    Our study Qualtitative Analysis for Human Centered AI was presented in the Workshop Human Centered AI at NeurIPS 2021😍
  • 5. Dec 2021
    I gave an interview to Financial Times on Industry-Academic research partnerships
  • 1. Dec 2021
    Glad to be volunteers co-chair (again) at this year's FAccT Conference
  • 1. July 2021
    Our study on Media behavior during the rise of Trump was published at AAAI ICWSM 2021 πŸ₯³
  • 20. April 2021
    A theoretic piece I wrote on socio-algorithmic ecosystems was published at AI & Society πŸ€—
  • 15. Sept 2020
    I gave an interview to Deepnews.AI on conspiracy theories and content moderation
  • 15. Sept 2020
    I gave an interview to Deepnews.AI on conspiracy theories and content moderation
  • 1.Sept 2020
    Starting today I am post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton CITP πŸ€– πŸ˜€
  • 29.July 2020
    Our talk on political Communication on TikTok won the best video presentation award< at IC2S2 2020
  • 11.July 2020
    Our paper on political Communication on TikTok won the best paper presentation award at 2020 ACM Conference for Web Science
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Email: orestis@princeton.edu

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