publications

2026

1. CulturalAI

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

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

   ICLR, 2026

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   @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 = {ICLR},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.07722},
   }

2. CulturalAI

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

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

   In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 2026

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2025

1. CulturalAI

   Why Slop Matters

   Cody Kommers, Eamon Duede, Julia Gordon, Ari Holtzman, Tess McNulty, Spencer Stewart, Lindsey Thomas, Hoyt Long, and Richard Jean So

   ACM AI Letters, 2025

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   @article{kommers2025whyslop,
     author = {Kommers, Cody and Duede, Eamon and Gordon, Julia and Holtzman, Ari and McNulty, Tess and Stewart, Spencer and Thomas, Lindsey and Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean},
     title = {Why Slop Matters},
     journal = {ACM AI Letters},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. CulturalAnalytics

   Split Screens: Aesthetic Preference and Political Polarization in American Television

   Tess McNulty, Hoyt Long, and Richard Jean So

   Under Review, 2025

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   @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},
   }

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

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   @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

   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

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   @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},
   }