Articles by Rita Raley

Rita Raley is Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. Her recent work engaging AI/machine learning from a humanities perspective has been published in PMLA; Digital Humanities Quarterly; American Literature; Poetics Today; Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism; Public; symplokē; and the edited volume, Informatics of Domination. She is currently working on a project on GPT-2.

AI Literacy and the Changing Digital Political Landscape

Erica and Derek: DALL-E/ChatGPT-generated image, profiling the Democratic-leaning and Republican-leaning "undecided voter" going into the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Image generated on May 13, 2025, using GPT-4o and DALL·E 3.
By Elizabeth Losh, Rita Raley, Delores B. Phillips, Reed Van Schenck and Stefania Milan

Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Host Reed Van Schenck discuss AI literacy, digital politics, and the 2024 US presidential election with authors Elizabeth Losh (William and Mary) and Rita Raley (UC Santa Barbara). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Stefania Milan.