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With Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) seemingly increasing integration into various aspects of society, nations worldwide—including Tribal Nations—are assessing its impact on the changing landscape. AI is a revolutionary technology that poses potential opportunities and risks for federally recognized Indian Tribes (Tribal Nations or Tribes) and their citizens. This article provides an overview of the literature related to AI in a tribal context.

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December 10, 2025 Travis Reid

Problems With Archiving and Replaying Web Advertisements

Advertisements are an integral part of our cultural heritage, and this extends to online web advertisements. Unlike print ads, web ads are dynamic and interactive, which makes them difficult to archive and replay (i.e., load archived web resources in a web browser) successfully . To explore these challenges, we created a dataset of 279 archived web ads. During this study, we identified five major problems with archiving and replaying web ads, which we discuss in detail in our article “Problems With Archiving and Replaying Current Web Advertisements”.

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November 18, 2025 Pethigamage Perera

AI in the House of God: A Threat, Tool or Transformation?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping nearly every corner of human life—from classrooms to hospitals and corporate offices. But what happens when it enters the house of worship? Can a machine deliver the word of God, or does this cross a sacred boundary? Our study, “AI in the House of God: Threat, Tool or Transformation?” (ASIS&T 2025), explores how people respond to AI-driven sermons and what this means for the future of faith and technology.

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October 29, 2025 Yuhao Zhang

When YouTube Meets Grandma: How Older Adults Perceive and Influence AI Recommendations

Behind every “You May Also Like” video sits an algorithm — an invisible curator quietly shaping what we see and what we don’t. Most of us accept this invisible hand as usual. We know it’s there, even if we don’t fully understand it. But for older adults, those who first learned about the world through newspapers, radio, and television, the logic of these recommendations can be confusing.

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October 23, 2025 Misita Anwar

Digital Commons for Coastal Communities

For coastal communities affected by climate change, digital commons go beyond technological inclusion as they are building the foundations of information empowerment and resilience. In this article we propose that digital commons can be a powerful model for information empowerment in coastal regions of developing countries. We illustrate this through our project, in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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October 22, 2025 Pathum B Rathnayake

The Fast Lane Generation: Unpacking Instant Gratification in Digital Natives

Instant gratification means getting what you want right away, without waiting. Think of ordering food online and having it at your door in minutes, or scrolling through social media for quick likes and laughs. This idea has become a hot topic when talking about younger people: Generation Z (born 1997-2012) and Generation Alpha (born 2013-2025).

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October 17, 2025 Bethany McGowan

What Makes People Trust Information? Finland Might Have the Answer.

In an era of misinformation, Finland stands out for one simple reason: people trust its information systems. This article explores how ethics, policy, and education combine to make that trust possible, and what other democracies can learn from it.

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October 15, 2025 Rachel Williams

Training Librarians for Crisis Communication: Why Virtual Reality Might Be the Answer

When you step into your local public library on a typical afternoon, you might see children and their families gathered for story time, a retiree reading in a corner, or a student hunched over a laptop. But, just as often, librarians encounter a very different scene: a patron in crisis. Public libraries have increasingly become places where people facing houselessness, mental health crises, or other personal struggles turn for help.

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September 17, 2025 Zhuoren Jiang

From “Elusive Policy Styles” to Measurable Indicators: How AI Helps Us Understand Government Governance

What if artificial intelligence could help us measure how governments make decisions? This article explains KOALA, a new AI-driven framework that turns abstract “policy styles” into measurable indicators, showing how expert knowledge and machine collaboration can make the hidden logic of governance visible.

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August 22, 2025 Saleh Lzeik

Rebranding Social Media: Hello, Scroll Media

We still call it social media, but it hasn’t been social in years. What started as a space for connection and conversation has morphed into something quieter, stickier, and far more behavioral. People don’t open these apps to talk anymore. They open them to scroll. That shift in intent changes everything. I call this new reality Scroll Media.