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NBC’s 11th Hour: Surgeon General Warns About Teens on Social Media (ft. Jen Golbeck)

June 2, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

Professor Jen Golbeck joins a panel of guests on the 11th Hour to address social media’s influence on young people's mental health.

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Images via Bored Panda, Twitter

Maryland Today: When a Cat Video Elicits More Than Warm Fuzzies (ft. Susannah Paletz)

May 10, 2023 | Maggie Haslam | UMD

Researchers Look at Human Responses to ‘Cuteness’ in Social Media

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Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian

ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)

April 13, 2023 | UMD ARLIS Staff

Social media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …

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(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption

April 7, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.

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Breaking the Loop: Creating a Trustworthy Social Media Platform

March 28, 2023 | Laurie Robinson

As part of his NSF Career award, Assistant Professor Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia is designing a social media platform that will deliver us …

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(Photos courtesy of Jen Golbeck and Rosie Grant)

Terp Magazine: The Secrets to Social Success (ft. Jen Golbeck)

February 3, 2023 | Karen Shih | Terp Magazine

Students Learn to Game Algorithms and Grow Audiences in Popular Class

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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. Hinckle

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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Dr. Cody Buntain Wins $999K DARPA Grant to Study Social Media in Conflict Zones

July 11, 2022 |

Cody’s work will develop models to predict where influence efforts by actors might emerge online.