Immigration and International Information Research Alliance (i3r@UMD)
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The Immigration and International Information Research Alliance, or i3r@UMD, is a group of UMD College of Information faculty researchers, graduate students, and staff who investigate and advance immigrants’ information access. Their goal is to:
- Produce evidence-based tools to strengthen immigrants’ trust in information.
- Offer research support through various gatherings.
- Promote information professionals’ awareness of community members’ lived experiences.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Highlighting and investing in immigrants’ and international communities’ information capacities.
- Understanding the intersection between information, language, cognition, and affective states
- Studying the history of information flows among immigrant/international communities.
- Uncovering the impact of migration and integration on children and adolescent development.
- Redressing the misuse of information tools in framing immigrant and international communities.
- Exploring information behavior in transnational, cultural, and social contexts–including how individuals change their information behavior in different settings.
