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Graduate Student News 31 May 2017

Doctoral Student Elisabetta Ferrari Studies Activism and Technology

Ferrari researches how social movements use digital technologies, and how activists think about technology personally and politically.

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Faculty News 13 May 2017

Intervening in Gang Violence

Columbia's interdisciplinary research team is using language processing and qualitative analysis of social media posts to develop a mechanism to identify and intervene in gang violence.

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Faculty News 12 Apr 2017

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.

Research 30 Mar 2017

Pearl Publishes New Book Face/On

Pearl uses a study of face transplants to explore why faces are so important to us.

Culture & Media

Undergraduate News 27 Mar 2017

Communication Major Tyler Burke Creates Documentary on Jewish Matchmaking

Burke's film explores both matchmakers and their modern online replacements in the world of Jewish dating.

Culture & Media

Graduate Student News 23 Mar 2017

Doctoral Student John Vilanova Explores Racism in the Music Industry

Vilanova aims to unpack how anti-black racism impacts the ways we buy, sell, write, and hear music.

Culture & Media

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News 22 Mar 2017

NPR Television Critic Eric Deggans Lectures on Race and the Media at Annenberg

Deggans discussed social media’s impact on news dissemination and the types of racism evident in media reporting.

Stack of #QIS2 programs. The cover has a graphic background of slanted yellow, red, pink and teal parallelograms placed in disarray. Two light blue horizontal strips run across the top and bottom of the program. The top says "The Queer Internet Studies Workshop" and bottom "February 17, 2017, The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia". The middle is a large 'Q' in the same blue as strips.

News 22 Feb 2017

#QIS2: The Second Queer Internet Studies Symposium Held at Penn

Co-organized by Jessa Lingel, #QIS2 was a space to envision what Queer Internet Studies might look like.

Culture & Media

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News 9 Feb 2017

Four Philosophy Journals Laud Romano's America the Philosophical

Romano's book is described as "a courageous work that fully belongs to the pragmatist tradition."

Culture & Media

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Research 6 Feb 2017

Study Finds Troubling Consequences for Anti-Muslim and Anti-Mexican Attitudes and Actions

Those holding anti-immigrant sentiment were more likely to support increased surveillance, restricting immigration, and deportation.

Culture & Media

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