Jack Bandy's Publications

Here are some papers and chapters and articles and things I have written over the years. This page links to a digital object identifier (DOI) links whenever possible to help fight link rot. If there is something you want to read but you have trouble accessing it, please reach out.

I also try to maintain my profiles on Google Scholar, ACM, and ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3584-2999

Peer-Reviewed Academic Publications

• Hagar, N. & Bandy, J. (2025). Practical Datasets for Analyzing LLM Corpora Derived from Common Crawl. ICWSM 2025. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Diakopoulos, N. (2023). Facebook's News Feed Algorithm and the 2020 US Election. Social Media + Society. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Lazovich, T. (2023). Exposure to Marginally Abusive Content on Twitter. ICWSM 2023. DOI.
• Bandy, J. (2022). Inspecting Algorithmic Flows: Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability for Digital Mass Communication Platforms. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Diakopoulos, N. (2021). Curating Quality? How Twitter's Timeline Algorithm Treats Different Types of News. Social Media + Society. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Vincent, N. (2021). Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus. NeurIPS 2021 Datasets Track. arXiv.
• Bandy, J. (2021). Problematic Machine Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review of Algorithm Audits. CSCW 2021. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Diakopoulos, N. (2021). More Accounts, Fewer Links: How Algorithmic Curation Impacts Media Exposure in Twitter Timelines. CSCW 2021. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Hecht, B. (2021). Errors in Geotargeted Display Advertising: Good News for Local Journalism? CSCW 2021. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Diakopoulos, N. (2020). Auditing News Curation Systems: A Case Study Examining Algorithmic and Editorial Logic in Apple News. ICWSM 2020. DOI.
• Parker, C. S., Parsons, S., Bandy, J., Chapman, C., Coppens, F., & Seales, W. B. (2019). From Invisibility to Readability: Recovering the Ink of Herculaneum. PLOS ONE. DOI.

Other Academic Writing

• Nishal, S. & Bandy, J. (2026). Caged Birds and Cute Bookworms: Feminine Tropes and Implicit Gender Bias in Large Language Models. EvalEval Workshop @ ACL 2026. OpenReview.
• Wagh, S., Stibler, K., Gupta, S., Strahm, L., Bejan, I., Chen, J., Buckley, D., Bhatia, R., Bandy, J., Agarwal, A., & others. (2025). Private Map-Secure Reduce: Infrastructure for Efficient AI Data Markets. arXiv preprint. arXiv.
• Chen, J., Bandy, J., Buckley, D., & Bhatia, R. (2024). AI transparency in practice: What was learnt from a third-party audit of recommender systems at LinkedIn and Dailymotion. The Christchurch Call Foundation. PDF.
• O'Reilly, T., Strauss, I., Bandy, J., & Barclay, L. (2024). Draft Delegated Act of the Digital Services Act: Comment. AI Disclosures Project (SSRC). Submitted to the European Commission. Link.
• Bandy, J. & Diakopoulos, N. (2022). All the News That's Fit to Tweet: Sociotechnical Local News Distribution from the New York Times to Twitter. News Quality in the Digital Age. DOI.
• Bandy, J. & Diakopoulos, N. (2020). #TulsaFlop: A Case Study of Algorithmically-Influenced Collective Action on TikTok. FAccTRec Workshop (RecSys 2020). arXiv.
• Hagar, N., Bandy, J., Trielli, D., Wang, Y., & Diakopoulos, N. (2020). Defining Local News: A Computational Approach. Computation and Journalism Symposium. PDF.
• Bandy, J. (2018). Interactive Machine Learning for Word Spotting on Damaged Handwritten Documents. University of Kentucky Master's Thesis. PDF.

General Audience Articles

• Bandy, J. (2026). Chicago's Amusement Tax Asks Big Tech to Start Paying Its Fair Share.
  Tech Policy Press.
• Bandy, J. (2024). People are the Answer, not Artificial Intelligence.
  Justice Rising.
• Bandy, J. (2021). Fixing to Die: What would an "abolish not reform" approach to tech look like?
  Real Life Magazine.
• Bandy, J. (2021). Follow the science, Chicago, and abolish ShotSpotter.
  Chicago Tribune.
• Bandy, J. & Diakopoulos, N. (2021). Amping up algorithmic transparency to govern online platform power.
  The Hill.
• Bandy, J. (2018). Automation moderation: finding symbiosis with anti-human technology.
  AI Matters.

Books

• Bandy, J. (2026). Algorithmic Media and the Enshittified Town Square: How Big Tech Corrupts Democratic Communication. Palgrave Pivot. Springer | Bookshop.org.