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Austin Lecture 2017: Social Workers Need to Understand Impact of Cyber-interaction on Adolescents

The future of social work embraces technology and uses it as a tool to better engage with and understand young clients.

Graduate Student News

Forbush Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Forbush will receive three years of funding to conduct individual research.

Research

How Your Brain Makes Articles Go Viral

Why do some articles spread and others don’t? How does your brain decide what to read and share?

Graduate Student News

Maris and Shapiro Awarded Internships with Microsoft Research Labs

Maris will intern with the Social Media Collective, and Shapiro with the Society, Ethics and AI working group.

Call for Submissions

Call for Applications: 2017 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute

Scholars, lawyers, activists, and policymakers discuss the effects of technology and policy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Research

Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 5 by Mimi Sheller

The paper is entitled, "On the Maintenance of Humanity: Learning from Refugee Mobile Practices."

Research

FactCheck.org to Work With Facebook on Exposing Viral Fake News

FactCheck.org is among several fact-checking organizations that will help to identify and label viral fake news stories.

Faculty News

Jessa Lingel Awarded Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies

A former librarian, Lingel is looking forward to studying the online marketplace Craigslist at the largest library in the world.

Alumni

Alumna Q&A: Eileen Le Han (Ph.D. '14) On Her New Book, Micro-blogging Memories

Han's book looks at the past and present of the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.

Faculty News

Q&A With Dr. Desmond Patton

Dr. Desmond Patton tells us about how he uses social media to study inner city violence and what sparked his interest in the work.