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CPR News: “Amidst seismic social media changes, making a new year’s resolution for your eyeballs”

Feb. 29, 2024

Featuring Brian Keegan, assistant professor in information science

The Conversation: “What is Mastodon? A social media expert explains how the ‘federated’ network works and why it won’t be a new Twitter”

Feb. 29, 2024

Featuring Brian Keegan, assistant professor in information science

NBC News: "Taylor Swift's 'Midnights' album gives TikTok fan groups more fodder—and community"

Feb. 29, 2024

Featuring Information Science Associate Professor Casey Fiesler

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Discrimination: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature

Feb. 22, 2024

A leading expert on how discrimination is encoded into technology will visit CMCI to kick off a new center on race and media, along with the college’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

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Announcing the fall 2023 Dean's List

Jan. 10, 2024

A celebration of the CMCI students who have qualified for inclusion on the Dean’s List for the fall.

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The mouse is out, and running loose on A.I.

Jan. 3, 2024

Generative A.I. tools and copyright law are intersecting in the 1928 “Steamboat Willie” cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. An expert in tech ethics says it’s just the start.

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Winter Newsletter 2023-2024

Dec. 21, 2023

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Exchange great: CMCI students set for summer courses in Europe

Nov. 17, 2023

Three CMCI programs will take students across the pond this summer to study communications and data in London, Paris and Amsterdam.

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Fall Newsletter 2023

Oct. 10, 2023

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Information Science at CSCW 2023

Oct. 6, 2023

The 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing Information Science students and faculty attended the 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) is in Minneapolis, MN from October 14-18, 2023. Posters, Workshops and Special Interest Groups "Headlines rarely soothe nerves”: An Analysis...

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