publications

2025

1. CulturalAnalytics

   Split Screens: Aesthetic Preference and Political Polarization in American Television

   Tess McNulty, Hoyt Long, and Richard Jean So

   Under Review, 2025

   Bib

   @article{mcnulty2025splitscreens,
     author = {McNulty, Tess and Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     title = {Split Screens: Aesthetic Preference and Political Polarization in American Television},
     journal = {Under Review},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. CulturalAI

   Critical Confabulation: Can LLM’s Hallucinate for Social Good?

   Peiqi Sui, Eamon Duede, Hoyt Long, and Richard Jean So

   arxiv, 2025

   Bib HTML

   @article{cui2025criticalconfab,
     author = {Sui, Peiqi and Duede, Eamon and Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     title = {Critical Confabulation: Can LLM's Hallucinate for Social Good?},
     journal = {arxiv},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.07722},
   }

3. CulturalAI

   The Social AI Author: Modeling Creativity and Distinction in Simulated Cultural Fields

   Teddy Roland, Richard Jean So, and Hoyt Long

   AI & Society, 2025

   Bib HTML

   @article{roland2025socialaiauthor,
     title = {The Social AI Author: Modeling Creativity and Distinction in Simulated Cultural Fields},
     author = {Roland, Teddy and So, Richard Jean and Long, Hoyt},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {AI & Society},
   }

4. CulturalAI

   What does AI do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation

   Jiayin Zhi, Mina Lee, Hoyt Long, and Richard Jean So

   Under review, 2025

   Bib

   @article{zhilee2025whatdoesaido,
     title = {What does AI do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation},
     author = {Zhi, Jiayin and Lee, Mina and Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {Under review},
   }

5. CulturalAI

   Generative AI and the Technical Reproduction of Cultural Inequality

   Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So

   Under review, 2025

   Bib

   @article{longso2025inequality,
     title = {Generative AI and the Technical Reproduction of Cultural Inequality},
     author = {Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {Under review},
   }

2023

1. CulturalAnalytics

   #COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age

   Hoyt Long, Richard Jean So, and Kaitlyn Todd

   Critical Inquiry, 2023

   Bib HTML

   @article{longso2023Covid,
     author = {Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean and Todd, Kaitlyn},
     title = {\#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age},
     journal = {Critical Inquiry},
     volume = {49},
     number = {4},
     pages = {530--556},
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1086/725059},
   }