Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics

Supporting information and technology practices and policies that break down barriers.

Research Projects

Investigating the Information Practices of COVID Long-Haulers
Principal Investigator(s): Beth St. Jean Twanna Hodge Jane Behre J. Nicole Miller
Funder: UMD Impact Award - Pandemic Readiness Initiative: https://research.umd.edu/pri Other
Research Areas: Health Informatics > Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics > Library and Information Science
This project investigates the information needs, practices, and experiences of people who have long COVID ("COVID long-haulers") in order to learn more about their COVID-related information needs, the ways in which they have gone about fulfilling these needs, and their information-related experiences. W
Computational Treatments to re-member the Legacy of Slavery (CT-LoS)
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Marciano
Research Areas: Archival Science > Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization > Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics
Using Computational Archival Science to unlock records related to the Legacy of Slavery and provide new point of interaction and analysis.
Environmental Injustice and Deaths of Despair: Lessons from Montana’s Tribal Lands
Principal Investigator(s):
Research Areas: Health Informatics > Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics
The proposed project uses the case of Native American Lands in Montana to investigate the dynamic interactions between environmental change and socio-economic conditions, in order to identify potential pathways whereby environmental hardship may contribute to (and result from) forms of socio-economic distress linked to deaths of despair.

Recent News

Photo of Hornbake Plaza on the UMD College Park Campus, home to the INFO College

Photo of Hornbake Plaza on the UMD College Park Campus, home to the INFO College

UMD INFO College Faculty Awarded for Research Excellence

14 INFO faculty members are to be honored at the 2024 UMD Research Excellence Celebration
AI

How to Make Critical Decision-Making Systems Fairer and Build Trust in AI

Researchers from UMD and GW are creating a new measure to make AI systems involved in parole decisions and loan approvals fairer
Still photo of a music video generated by AI

Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images

Scientific American: Everything to Know About OpenAI’s New Text-to-Video Generator, Sora (ft. Irene Pasquetto)

A new AI software that generates realistic videos is raising concerns around misinformation applications