Accepted, in production

Crowd forensics and warrant braiding.

Journal of Advertising · Routledge, Taylor & Francis

Saxena, P., & Prahl, A. (in press). Crowd forensics and warrant braiding: Collaborative persuasion knowledge in AI influencer threads. Journal of Advertising.

Hand-drawn evidence strands braided through shared scrutiny into collective judgement

How private doubt becomes public evidence

The accepted study shows how comment threads become collective investigations. One person offers a clue, others test and combine it, and individual suspicion develops into a shared verdict.