Monthly Papers Club

On the Last Monday of every month, we discuss an academic paper that we've chosen in the weeks before at Victory Café. Follow our Luma page for upcoming discussions!

Papers we've discussed in the past:

• July 28th, 2025: ​"Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens” by Anastasia Kozyreva, Sam Wineburg, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Ralph Hertwig
• August 25th, 2025: "The Third Place” by Ramon Oldenburg and Dennis Brissett
• September 29th, 2025: "People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own" by Adrian F. Ward
• October 27th, 2025: "The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history." by Dominique Carlon , Jean Burgess, and Kateryna Kasianenko
• November 24th, 2025: "The circus of liberation: Clowning as social creativity in insane clown posse's dark carnival" by Nat Begg
• December 29th, 2025: “When the Joke Is on You: A Feminist Perspective on How Positionality Influences Satire" "by" Richard H. Baldwin
• January 26th, 2026: “Affective Computing” by R.W. Picard
• February 23rd, 2026: "Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions" by Lucy Osler

(Dates are the discussion dates, not publication dates.)