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PhD Student Spotlight: Xiaoyun Huang

November 10, 2020 | iSchool News

Xiaoyun is currently exploring how people present themselves across their social media ecosystems and what factors could influence the …

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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 Hinckle

Social media has been a tool for boosting civic engagement, but also a vehicle for surprisingly convincing fake news and videos.

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SchoolCEO: Crash Course Q&As: Dr. Jen Golbeck

October 2, 2020 | iSchool News

To bring your district together online, Jen Golbeck suggests creating a safe space, setting guidelines and rules, gaining participation …

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University of Maryland Launches New Social Data Science Center with Support from Facebook

September 9, 2020 | Press Release

Initial Projects include Survey Tools to Track, Predict COVID-19 ‘Hot Spots’

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UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members

August 26, 2020 | Mia K. Hinckle

With strengths in library and archives innovation, digital curation, criminal justice data science, socio-technical aspects of cybersec …

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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 …