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ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)
Social media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …

(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption
The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.

Breaking the Loop: Creating a Trustworthy Social Media Platform
As part of his NSF Career award, Assistant Professor Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia is designing a social media platform that will deliver us …

(Photos courtesy of Jen Golbeck and Rosie Grant)
Terp Magazine: The Secrets to Social Success (ft. Jen Golbeck)
Students Learn to Game Algorithms and Grow Audiences in Popular Class

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 …

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 …

Screenshot of an observation session on Zoom from the research study, with Dr. Emma Dixon, Ms. Diana Blackwelder, and a study participant (anonymized with an icon) viewing an NIH webpage reporting on risk factors for heart disease linked to dementia.
How People with Dementia Access Health Information
Dr. Amanda Lazar and her team examine the barriers faced by people with dementia to accessing relevant, accurate health information.