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UMD Group Connects Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Thinkers and Leaders

January 11, 2024 | INFO Staff

Bringing together innovators from across academia, industry, and government

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New Tool Can Help Audit Pretrial Detainment Decisions in Maryland, UMD Study Shows (ft. Zubin Jelveh)

January 10, 2024 | UMD BSOS Staff

UMD BSOS + INFO faculty are determining how to make criminal justice more "just"

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Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant

July 12, 2023 | Info Staff

Funding provided to projects that seek to solve social media misinformation, vulnerable community infrastructure, and racial injustice

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(Video) SoDa Symposium: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Social Data Science Methods

April 21, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

INFO Professor Jen Golbeck and JPSM instructor Jen Romano spoke on a panel moderated by INFO Professor Wayne Lutters.

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Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian

ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)

April 13, 2023 | UMD ARLIS Staff

Social media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …

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Europe’s Data Privacy Revolution: How Civic Engagement is Impacting Implementation

March 31, 2023 | Laurie Robinson

A Q&A with INFO Assistant Professor Ido Sivan-Sevilla

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Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter

August 18, 2022 | Mia K. Hinckle

Research showing how the Taliban leveraged Twitter, and Twitter’s limited management of this, was shared with Voices of America’s g …

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(Video) GEM Analytics Industry Expert Series: Data and Its Application in a Streaming Media Company

May 3, 2022 | iSchool News Staff

How data is used at a streaming media company to shape the future of content.