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Netflix Series "Connected," featuring Jen Golbeck

August 3, 2020 | iSchool News

Jen Golbeck discusses a groundbreaking discovery in an episode of Netflix's new series, Connected.

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Confidence in Institutions in a Time of Mistrust

July 23, 2020 | iSchool News

UMD iSchool faculty discuss having confidence in government and institutions despite growing mistrust caused by the Covid-19 pandemic …

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Mic: The Bitcoin scam that hit Twitter could have been way worse, featuring Jen Golbeck

July 23, 2020 | AJ Dellinger

Recent Twitter hacks demonstrate how misusage of the platform can be detrimental depending on the goals and timing of the attackers. …

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Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing

June 22, 2020 | Yongle Zhang

Research on participatory sensing, the practice of using human participants to gather data on their mobile devices from their environm …

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Brookings: Where Would Racial Progress in Policing be Without Camera Phones? featuring Nicol Turner Lee

June 12, 2020 | Nicol Turner Lee

Technology is becoming part of the story regarding how marginalized populations in the U.S.

UMD iSchool Researcher, Jen Golbeck, Interprets Social Media Giant Facebook’s Ongoing Missteps

UMD iSchool Researcher, Jen Golbeck, Interprets Social Media Giant Facebook’s Ongoing Missteps

May 2, 2019 | iSchoolNews

The Trouble With Facebook
Researcher Interprets Social Media Giant's Ongoing Missteps