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Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter
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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Info College Faculty and Alumna Publish New Book on Information Literacy and Disinformation
Dr. Paul T. Jaeger co-authored "Foundations of Information Literacy," the first book to offer frameworks for tackling information liter …
3 Faculty Members Awarded $1.4 Million to Develop Library and Archival Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program awarded 3 Professors funding which suppor …
A farmer tends crops in Uganda, an area where bias in AI algorithms monitoring global crop health might misinterpret data due to a lack of knowledge of local growing methods. Photo by Nuno Almeida, Dreamstime.com
UMD Co-leads $750K NSF, Amazon Project to Tackle AI Bias in Mapping
INFO College's Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource dist …
Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
This year’s Fellows will work to expand social justice curricula and increase support for doctoral students and faculty in LIS fields …
Dr. Cody Buntain Wins $999K DARPA Grant to Study Social Media in Conflict Zones
Cody’s work will develop models to predict where influence efforts by actors might emerge online.
How Taliban Used Twitter to take over Afghanistan
Dr. Cody Buntain looks at how the Taliban made effective use of Twitter to engage with and manipulate international and domestic audien …
