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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. HinckleResearch showing how the Taliban leveraged Twitter, and Twitter’s limited management of this, was shared with Voices of America’s global audi …
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Info College Faculty and Alumna Publish New Book on Information Literacy and Disinformation
August 5, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreDr. Paul T. Jaeger co-authored “Foundations of Information Literacy,” the first book to offer frameworks for tackling information literacy and di …
3 Faculty Members Awarded $1.4 Million to Develop Library and Archival Services
August 2, 2022 | Camille RogersThe Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program awarded 3 Professors funding which supports the tra …
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
July 20, 2022 | Rachael Grahame | Maryland TodayINFO College’s Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource distribution
Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
July 15, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThis 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
July 11, 2022 | Camille RogersCody’s work will develop models to predict where influence efforts by actors might emerge online.
How Taliban Used Twitter to take over Afghanistan
July 11, 2022 | Camille RogersDr. Cody Buntain looks at how the Taliban made effective use of Twitter to engage with and manipulate international and domestic audiences.
Dr. Zubin Jelveh: Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It
June 27, 2022 | Mia K. HinckleUsing arrest and victimization records from the Chicago PD, a machine learning model can predict the risk of being shot in the next 18 months.
UMD Info College Welcomes Eleven New Faculty Members
June 22, 2022 | iSchool News StaffWith strengths in library and archives innovation, experiential design, online and social media communities, sociotechnical and cultural technolo …