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Faculty News

Centola and Guilbeault Receive Research Grant from Facebook

They will investigate how to categorize content online.

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Faculty News

New Annenberg Presidential Associate Professor Sarah J. Jackson Studies Narratives of Race and Gender in the Media

Jackson is interested in which voices in the media shape and frame racial and gender politics.

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Research

Echo Chambers May Not Be as Dangerous as You Think, New Study Finds

Collective intelligence can increase belief accuracy even in politically homogenous groups.

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News

Media, Inequality, and Change Center Hosts Launch Symposium

The MIC Center brings together academics and activists to address social issues.

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MIC Center Hosts “The Platform Economy and the Future of the City” Symposium

The event brought together workers, organizers and activists, lawyers and other legal experts, and academics studying worker rights.

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Research

Dynamic Exploits: The Science of Worker Control in the On-Demand Economy

Who does on-the-job flexibility actually benefit?

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Faculty News

González-Bailón Named 2019-20 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow

She will work on a book manuscript about how algorithms translate social expectations into code.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Papers: Symposium on Social Media, Algorithms, and Journalism Innovations

Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.

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Graduate Student News

Data Artist and Doctoral Student Roopa Vasudevan Finds Creative Ways to Tell Untold Stories

She collects data about important issues and creates visually appealing ways to convey it to others.

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Research

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 10

The paper explores the conflation of hacktivism with cyber-terrorism that enables states to criminalize non-violent hackers.