Kate K Mays
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate K Mays |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mays |
| SIGNATURE | MAYS K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8477-9634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
AI Humanizers, Pragmatists, Skeptics
This study explores people’s attitudes about artificial intelligence’s (AI) capabilities through a normative lens. Drawing from literature on phenomenological, ontological, and heuristic judgments about machines, we aim to better understand what capabilities people think AI should be able to have and how that relates to enthusiasm about having AI take certain roles in their lives. Survey participants (N = 601) were grouped via two-step clustering…
Looking towards an automated future
The present study explores people’s attitudes towards an assortment of occupations on high and low-likelihood of automation probability. An omnibus survey ( N = 1150) was conducted to measure attitudes about various emerging technologies, as well as demographic and individual traits. The results showed that respondents were not very comfortable with AI’s management across domains. To some degree, levels of comfort corresponded with the likelihood…
Authentic Impediments
Considering possible impediments to authentic interactions with machines, this study explores contributors to robophobia from the potential dual influence of technological features and individual traits. Through a 2 x 2 x 3 online experiment, a robot’s physical human-likeness, gender, and status were manipulated and individual differences in robot beliefs and personality traits were measured. The effects of robot traits on phobia were non-signifi…
Agenda Setting, Cross-cutting Effects, and Political Expression on Social Media
Focusing on a polarized issue—U.S. gun violence—this study examines agenda setting as an antecedent of political expression on social media. A state-of-the-art machine-learning model was used to analyze news coverage from 25 media outlets—mainstream and partisan. Those results were paired with a two-wave panel survey conducted during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Findings show mainstream media shape public opinion about gun violence, which the…
The Power of Personal Ontologies
AI as a boss? A national US survey of predispositions governing comfort with expanded AI roles in society
Des communications mobiles à la robotique sociale, relations et émotions
Cet article analyse les changements structurels découlant de l’utilisation tout à la fois généralisée et tout au long de la vie des applications de la technologie des communications mobiles. Ces changements affectent tous les secteurs de la société, y compris la sphère domestique, qui a sans doute été la plus profondément touchée. Nous discutons des développements récents et délimitons les controverses concernant la portée appropriée des interact…
Trait motivational reactivity as a predictor of online dating app behavior
Breaching perpetual contact
This qualitative study aimed to investigate the norms and daily practices around mobile and social technology by examining what happens when mobile phones and social media on any devices are removed from one’s daily life. Most studies on technology non-use focus on one device or plat-form. In this study, participants (N = 78) relinquished not only social media but also their mobile phones for a 10-day period, and made observations on their experi…
What Makes Gun Violence a (Less) Prominent Issue? A Computational Analysis of Compelling Arguments and Selective Agenda Setting
Despite several transient spikes in response to the deadliest mass shootings, the U.S. population continues to perceive gun violence as less important than other issues, and public opinion remains divided along partisan lines. Drawing upon literature of compelling arguments and partisan media, this study investigates what kind of news framing—episodic framing that focuses on individual stories or thematic framing that emphasizes broader context—m…
Invasive Yet Inevitable? Privacy Normalization Trends in Emerging Technology
In the last few years, smart security and physical identification technologies have grown exponentially; people are increasingly installing smart video devices to monitor their homes and buying DNA kits to collect and analyze their genetics. As the number of users and profits of these businesses increase, so too does the potential for privacy violations and exploitation. To explore these dynamics of privacy in emerging technology, we conducted a …
Living With Robots
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics applications have proliferated primarily in the industrial sphere, and social scientific studies emphasized robots’ functionality and appropriateness for certain roles, especially those related to work and most particularly to robots replacing humans’ jobs. Notably, robot studies are often premised on negative prognostications, emphasizing how robots threaten livelihoods and are disruptive. As AI and robo…
Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media
This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider social media’s effect on the craft of journalism as well as the growing role of algorithms, big data, and automatic content production regimes. The volume’…
Whose Story Wins on Twitter
The South China Sea dispute is one of the most complicated geopolitical issues of the twenty-first century. While this international conflict revolves around military and economic disputes, in today’s information age international politics also hinges on how each country presents the dispute in the news and whose “story” wins. Based on the Network Agenda Setting model, this study analyzed the news coverage in three involved countries—China, the P…
Whose Story Wins on Twitter
The South China Sea dispute is one of the most complicated geopolitical issues of the twenty-first century. While this international conflict revolves around military and economic disputes, in today’s information age international politics also hinges on how each country presents the dispute in the news and whose “story” wins. Based on the Network Agenda Setting model, this study analyzed the news coverage in three involved countries—China, the P…
What Makes Gun Violence a (Less) Prominent Issue? A Computational Analysis of Compelling Arguments and Selective Agenda Setting
Despite several transient spikes in response to the deadliest mass shootings, the U.S. population continues to perceive gun violence as less important than other issues, and public opinion remains divided along partisan lines. Drawing upon literature of compelling arguments and partisan media, this study investigates what kind of news framing—episodic framing that focuses on individual stories or thematic framing that emphasizes broader context—m…
Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media
This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider social media’s effect on the craft of journalism as well as the growing role of algorithms, big data, and automatic content production regimes. The volume’…
Whose Story Wins on Twitter
The South China Sea dispute is one of the most complicated geopolitical issues of the twenty-first century. While this international conflict revolves around military and economic disputes, in today’s information age international politics also hinges on how each country presents the dispute in the news and whose “story” wins. Based on the Network Agenda Setting model, this study analyzed the news coverage in three involved countries—China, the P…
Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media
This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider social media’s effect on the craft of journalism as well as the growing role of algorithms, big data, and automatic content production regimes. The volume’…
Invasive Yet Inevitable? Privacy Normalization Trends in Emerging Technology
In the last few years, smart security and physical identification technologies have grown exponentially; people are increasingly installing smart video devices to monitor their homes and buying DNA kits to collect and analyze their genetics. As the number of users and profits of these businesses increase, so too does the potential for privacy violations and exploitation. To explore these dynamics of privacy in emerging technology, we conducted a …
Living With Robots
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics applications have proliferated primarily in the industrial sphere, and social scientific studies emphasized robots’ functionality and appropriateness for certain roles, especially those related to work and most particularly to robots replacing humans’ jobs. Notably, robot studies are often premised on negative prognostications, emphasizing how robots threaten livelihoods and are disruptive. As AI and robo…
Des communications mobiles à la robotique sociale, relations et émotions
Cet article analyse les changements structurels découlant de l’utilisation tout à la fois généralisée et tout au long de la vie des applications de la technologie des communications mobiles. Ces changements affectent tous les secteurs de la société, y compris la sphère domestique, qui a sans doute été la plus profondément touchée. Nous discutons des développements récents et délimitons les controverses concernant la portée appropriée des interact…
Trait motivational reactivity as a predictor of online dating app behavior
Breaching perpetual contact
This qualitative study aimed to investigate the norms and daily practices around mobile and social technology by examining what happens when mobile phones and social media on any devices are removed from one’s daily life. Most studies on technology non-use focus on one device or plat-form. In this study, participants (N = 78) relinquished not only social media but also their mobile phones for a 10-day period, and made observations on their experi…
What Makes Gun Violence a (Less) Prominent Issue? A Computational Analysis of Compelling Arguments and Selective Agenda Setting
Despite several transient spikes in response to the deadliest mass shootings, the U.S. population continues to perceive gun violence as less important than other issues, and public opinion remains divided along partisan lines. Drawing upon literature of compelling arguments and partisan media, this study investigates what kind of news framing—episodic framing that focuses on individual stories or thematic framing that emphasizes broader context—m…
AI as a boss? A national US survey of predispositions governing comfort with expanded AI roles in society
The Power of Personal Ontologies
Looking towards an automated future
The present study explores people’s attitudes towards an assortment of occupations on high and low-likelihood of automation probability. An omnibus survey ( N = 1150) was conducted to measure attitudes about various emerging technologies, as well as demographic and individual traits. The results showed that respondents were not very comfortable with AI’s management across domains. To some degree, levels of comfort corresponded with the likelihood…
Authentic Impediments
Considering possible impediments to authentic interactions with machines, this study explores contributors to robophobia from the potential dual influence of technological features and individual traits. Through a 2 x 2 x 3 online experiment, a robot’s physical human-likeness, gender, and status were manipulated and individual differences in robot beliefs and personality traits were measured. The effects of robot traits on phobia were non-signifi…
Agenda Setting, Cross-cutting Effects, and Political Expression on Social Media
Focusing on a polarized issue—U.S. gun violence—this study examines agenda setting as an antecedent of political expression on social media. A state-of-the-art machine-learning model was used to analyze news coverage from 25 media outlets—mainstream and partisan. Those results were paired with a two-wave panel survey conducted during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Findings show mainstream media shape public opinion about gun violence, which the…
AI Humanizers, Pragmatists, Skeptics
This study explores people’s attitudes about artificial intelligence’s (AI) capabilities through a normative lens. Drawing from literature on phenomenological, ontological, and heuristic judgments about machines, we aim to better understand what capabilities people think AI should be able to have and how that relates to enthusiasm about having AI take certain roles in their lives. Survey participants (N = 601) were grouped via two-step clustering…
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · AI in Service Interactions (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works)