Talks and Press

Conference presentations, invited talks, and media

Conference presentations

  • APSA 2025 — “‘The Happening Is Coming’: Apocalyptic Rhetoric on 4chan Following Mass Casualty Attacks.”
  • APSA 2025 — “Partisan Polarization Shapes Visual Framing of COVID-19 in U.S. Media” (with Philips and Kaur).
  • MPSA 2025 — “Elite Influence in an Online Neo-Fascist Forum.”
  • MPSA 2025 — “Partisan Polarization Shapes Visual Framing of COVID-19 in U.S. Media.”
  • MPSA 2024 — “Media Bias in COVID-19 Coverage.”
  • New Frontiers in Text as Data 2023 — “Manifesting a Coup: Cross-Website Toxicity and Extremism on the Dot-Win Network Prior to January 6, 2021” (poster).
  • Game Developers Conference 2023 — “Mitigating Harm in Design.”
  • Terrorism and Social Media 2022 — “Accelerationism Research in Practice.”
  • Game Developers Conference 2022 — “The Landscape of Extremist Behavior in Games.”
  • Reactionary Digital Politics 2021 — “The Aesthetics of Acceleration.”

Invited talks

I give talks for academic, policy, and industry audiences on online extremism, AI safety, gaming and political violence, and computational methods for policy questions. Recurring topics:

  • Online radicalization and the structure of decentralized extremist movements
  • AI safety, generative models, and the misuse of large language models
  • Gaming platforms as sites of political socialization and recruitment
  • Trust and safety: translating research into practice
  • Computational social science methods for policy audiences
  • The January 6th investigation, and what it taught us about online-to-offline mobilization

For invitations, email alex.newhouse@colorado.edu with the audience, date, format, and topic.

Media

Washington Post · New York Times · NPR · BBC · Politico · Wired · Bloomberg · Meet the Press · Vice · Axios · FiveThirtyEight · ProPublica · Denver7

Radio and podcast. NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and On Point; BBC; Bloomberg Radio.

Written. Washington Post · New York Times · Vice · Axios · Politico · FiveThirtyEight · Wired · ProPublica.

Video. Meet the Press Now · Denver7.

Public writing

Full list on the writing page. Selected:

  • The Conversation (Jan 2021) — “Far-right activists on social media telegraphed violence weeks in advance of the attack on the US Capitol.” 35,400 reads.
  • The Conversation (Nov 2020) — “Parler is bringing together mainstream conservatives, anti-Semites and white supremacists…” 241,000 reads.
  • Just Security (Jan 2023) — “Insiders’ View of the January 6th Committee’s Social Media Investigation” (with Jackson and Conroy).

Last updated: August 2026

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