Editing People (section)

=== Madelyn (Maddie) Douglas (University of Washington) ===
[[File:IMG 5051.jpg|thumb|200px|Pure joy after eating an uncrustable and gushers at the top of Kendall Katwalk (on the PCT in Washington).]]
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Hi! I am a second-year MA/PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington co-advised by Benjamin Mako Hill and Adrienne Russell. My research interests focus on the rhetoric of science and technology and the online public sphere—especially the co-optation of tech ethics and the narratives justifying technology development. Lately, I’ve been researching the ways that publics adopt and/or reject the anthropomorphization of different LLM chatbots, and am also investigating the uses and abuses of transparency in Washington state public records. Before joining UW, I worked as a software engineer and a technical writer (during the release of ChatGPT!), and these experiences helped shape my research interests. In my free time, I love to spend time outside (especially hiking, skiing, and swimming in alpine lakes), jamming/songwriting, and watching horror movies.

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