Persona as Infrastructure: Invisible Structural Control in LLM-Mediated Social Networks

Amir Reza Asadi; Jess Kropczynski; Hazem Said

Persona as Infrastructure: Invisible Structural Control in LLM-Mediated Social Networks

Amir Reza Asadi, Jess Kropczynski, Hazem Said

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026)
Month:: September
Year:: 2026
Address:: University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Editors:: Mourad Abbas, Abed Alhakim Freihat
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Cite (ACL):: Amir Reza Asadi, Jess Kropczynski, and Hazem Said. 2026. Persona as Infrastructure: Invisible Structural Control in LLM-Mediated Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026), pages 164–178, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Persona as Infrastructure: Invisible Structural Control in LLM-Mediated Social Networks](https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.17/) (Asadi et al., ICNLSP 2026)

Persona as Infrastructure: Invisible Structural Control in LLM-Mediated Social Networks (Asadi et al., ICNLSP 2026)

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Amir Reza Asadi, Jess Kropczynski, and Hazem Said. 2026. Persona as Infrastructure: Invisible Structural Control in LLM-Mediated Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026), pages 164–178, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.