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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.

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Research 5 Apr 2017

Counteracting the Influence of Adolescent Peer Smoking on YouTube

A new study suggests showing a corrective message that describes the severity and scope of smoking risks.

Health Communication

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

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Graduate Student News 24 Feb 2017

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.

Technology & Society

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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Research 15 Dec 2016

Technology & Society

Desmond Patton sitting in front of two monitors. One monitor shows a Windows desktop, the other shows a Twitter account.

Faculty News 16 Nov 2016

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.

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