# Desmond Patton

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Is social media contributing to youth gun violence?

Crime and gun violence declined in the U.S. over a 20-year period starting in the early part of this century. But then came the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and murders surged by 30% across the country, but especially in cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. However, smaller cities in our …

Social Workers Who Design: trauma-responsive design and design of care

Rachael Dietkus is a social worker-designer. Her practice, research, and writing at the intersections of social work values, trauma-responsive principles, and care-focused design research methods. Rachael is the founder of Social Workers Who Design and an active member of the Design Justice Network…

Social media, grief, trauma, and violence with Dr. Desmond Patton

Dr. Dan and public interest technologist, professor, and social worker Dr. Desmond Patton talk about his groundbreaking research exploring the relationship between social media and grief, trauma, gun violence, and loss — specifically how online communities can influence harmful offline behavior.   …

Ep 58: Cyberbullying and depression

Hi listeners, great to be back in your inbox with another episode of Outside the Screen. As I mentioned last time, I’m thinking of making some changes to the pod, and one is to make the episodes less frequent. So if you’ve been missing OTS and pining for the next instalment - let me know! This epis…

Episode 1: Passion Journals

Important note from Dr. G: Just a reminder that Google Calendar isn't encrypted, so you do have to be careful with client info. The other calendars that I'm connected to anonymize my appointments, so that patient info isn't at risk. You can, however, go a step up and use Google Workspace for clien…

Episode 6 | Joy Is a System: Grief, AI, and the Power of Context

In our first guest episode, Beth and Katie are joined by Dr. Desmond Patton—renowned social worker, AI ethics leader, and founder of SAFELab—for a soul-stirring conversation on what’s ending, what’s beginning, and why joy is more than a feeling—it’s an intentional system. From pioneering research o…

Through to Thriving: Insights from the Field

Tech Policy Press fellow Anika Collier Navaroli joined Justin Hendrix to discuss insights from her special 2025 series of podcasts, Through to Thriving. They discussed insights from her interviews over the course of the year with Ellen Pao, Jerrel Peterson, Alice Hunsberger, Vaishnavi J, Desmond Pa…

Decoding Language of Grief and Joy in Digital Life

Desmond Patton is the 31st PIK University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communication, where he is the Waldo E Johnson Jr. Professor of Communication. He also holds secondary appointments i…

Are Cell Phones Bad For Your Kids?

Hosts Ciara Lankford and Kevin Pinto talk with University of Pennsylvania Professor, Dr. Desmond Patton about kids and cell phone use. When should you give your child access to a cell phone and how can teachers utilize cell phones in their classrooms?

The Human Element in Machine Learning w Catherine D’Ignazio, Jacob Andreas and Harini Suresh (S3:E5)

When computer science was in its infancy, programmers quickly realized that though computers are astonishingly powerful tools, the results they achieve are only as good as the data you feed into them. (This principle was quickly formalized as GIGO: “Garbage In, Garbage Out.”) What was true in the e…