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(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
February 15, 2022 | iSchool News StaffResearchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …

NPR: TikTok creator makes the recipes she finds on gravestones
January 28, 2022 | UMD iSchool StaffJournalist Scott Simon talks with iSchool graduate student Rosie Grant about the food she's cooked from recipes found on gravestones.

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Work on the Use of Intelligent Voice Assistants by Older Adults Wins ACM TOCHI Best Paper Award
January 28, 2022 | Liz ZogbyThe paper by iSchool PhD student Alisha Pradhan, iSchool assistant professor Dr. Amanda Lazar, and University of Washington’s Dr. Lea …

HR Brew: Employee surveillance is exploding with remote work (feat. Jessica Vitak)
January 27, 2022 | UMD iSchool StaffJournalist Sam Blum examines how the expansion of worker surveillance runs the risk of shattering employees’ trust.

Trace Center at 50 Yrs (Video): Accomplishments, Lessons Learned, Future Directions
January 6, 2022 | Mia K. Hinckle & Liz ZogbyA review of the Center’s work at the intersection of disability and technology over its first five decades, and a look at its current …

Katrina Fenlon to Support New Commission to Foster Digital Humanities Projects on Social and Racial Justice
December 10, 2021 | Press ReleaseThe Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship will look at improving the support, access, and sustainability o …

Loud Gleeful Learning
November 5, 2021 | Caro Williams-PierceSupporting and provoking adult play in formal contexts.

ASSETS 2021 celebrated 50 years of its sponsor, ACM SIGACCESS, including a 1970s-inspired logo designed by Rachel Wood, a Trace-affiliated PhD student in the UMD iSchool.
Trace Faculty and Students Contribute to a Successful Virtual ASSETS 2021
November 3, 2021 | iSchool NewsTrace faculty and students contribute work and play key leadership roles at ASSETS 2021, which marks landmark 50th anniversaries for bo …