Pop Place Director Maxwell Hartt, School of Urban and Regional Planning alumni Stephanie Cantlay, and affiliated researchers Justin Hollander, Ruth Potts & Alexander Seto published “iNIMBY? The potential of automated social media bots to create echo chambers in the online participatory planning discourse” in International Planning Studies. The article, which is an output of the iNIMBY research project, introduces a planning-oriented social bot, Urbanist Uma, to explore if and how social bots contribute to echo chambers that may influence planning processes on X (formerly Twitter).
The article can be read here.