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Social Media’s Impact on the 2020 Presidential Election: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
November 3, 2020 | Hayleigh Moore Mia HinckleSocial media has been a tool for boosting civic engagement, but also a vehicle for surprisingly convincing fake news and videos.
SchoolCEO: Crash Course Q&As: Dr. Jen Golbeck
October 2, 2020 | iSchool NewsTo bring your district together online, Jen Golbeck suggests creating a safe space, setting guidelines and rules, gaining participation …
University of Maryland Launches New Social Data Science Center with Support from Facebook
September 9, 2020 | Press ReleaseInitial Projects include Survey Tools to Track, Predict COVID-19 ‘Hot Spots’
UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
August 26, 2020 | Mia K. HinckleWith strengths in library and archives innovation, digital curation, criminal justice data science, socio-technical aspects of cybersec …
Netflix Series "Connected," featuring Jen Golbeck
August 3, 2020 | iSchool NewsJen Golbeck discusses a groundbreaking discovery in an episode of Netflix's new series, Connected.
Confidence in Institutions in a Time of Mistrust
July 23, 2020 | iSchool NewsUMD iSchool faculty discuss having confidence in government and institutions despite growing mistrust caused by the Covid-19 pandemic …
Mic: The Bitcoin scam that hit Twitter could have been way worse, featuring Jen Golbeck
July 23, 2020 | AJ DellingerRecent Twitter hacks demonstrate how misusage of the platform can be detrimental depending on the goals and timing of the attackers. …
Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing
June 22, 2020 | Yongle ZhangResearch on participatory sensing, the practice of using human participants to gather data on their mobile devices from their environm …
