Publications | Stephanie T. Wang

* indicates equal contribution

AI in Search Reduces Publisher Referrals Without Improving User Experience: Experimental Evidence

Stephanie Wang*, Jeffrey Gleason*, Yakov Bart, Christo Wilson, Danaé Metaxa

Under review at PNAS Nexus, 2026.

What’s Political on TikTok? Perceptions, Prevalence, and Patterns of Exposure to TikToks Users Perceive as Political

Jason Greenfield, Stephanie Wang, Samuel Jung, Sanjana Gautam, Kevin Yang, Danaé Metaxa

International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2026.

Lower Quantity, Higher Quality: Auditing News Content and User Perceptions on Twitter/X Algorithmic versus Chronological Timelines

Stephanie Wang*, Shengchun Huang*, Alvin Zhou, Danaé Metaxa

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), 2024.

Do Language Models Pass the Bechdel Test? Auditing Gender Biases in LLM-Generated Screenplays

Megha N. Govindu, Stephanie Wang, Sorelle Friedler, Danaé Metaxa

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2026.

Admix: A Design Probe Exploring End-User Agency and Collective Interventions in Targeted Advertising

Stephanie Wang, Princess Sampson, Mialy Rasetarinera, Danaé Metaxa

In submission, 2026.

AI in the Legislature: Advancing and Evaluating AI in an Academic Partnership with the Congressional Budget Office

Stephanie Wang, Casey Chen, Lindsey Gailmard, Daniel E. Ho

Work in progress, 2026.