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Faculty Now: Fall 2021

Dec. 22, 2021

Updates from our all-star faculty of professors, researchers, producers and innovators for fall 2021.

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CMCI Now: Designing Tech with Mortality in Mind

Dec. 22, 2021

It’s inevitable that at some point we must all “get our affairs in order,” and when we do, there are checklists, policies and professionals to help create everything from wills and trusts to advance directives. But a key element—guidance surrounding technology and end-of-life planning—is missing. Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker will work to close this gap through a five-year research project supported by a prestigious NSF CAREER grant.

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CMCI Now: Read the Latest Issue

Dec. 20, 2021

From undergraduates to doctoral candidates, the college equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to produce, gather, archive, curate, analyze and evaluate the flood of information, messages, data, images, sounds and ideas that populate our complex and rapidly evolving global media landscape. Check out the newest edition of our award-winning magazine.

9NEWS: “University of Colorado Boulder doctoral student leads research surrounding Black Twitter being the modern day Green Book”

Dec. 10, 2021

Featuring PhD candidate Shamika Klassen (Information Science) and Casey Fiesler (Information Science)

University of Toronto News: “TikTok teaching? U of T researchers study the social media platform's use in academia”

Nov. 26, 2021

Featuring Casey Fiesler (Information Science)

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Algorithms aren't fair. Robin Burke wants to change that

Nov. 11, 2021

The machine-learning systems that help your phone recommend music, movies, news and more can be biased in ways that leave out artists from underrepresented groups or foster polarization. Professor Robin Burke is working to change that.

CU Boulder Today: “Algorithms aren’t fair. Robin Burke wants to change that”

Nov. 11, 2021

Featuring Robin Burke (Information Science)

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How Black Twitter has become the new ‘Green Book’—and more

Oct. 27, 2021

Fifty-five years after a Black postal worker produced the inaugural issue of “The Green Book” to help African Americans navigate a racist society, Black Twitter is playing a similar and even broader role, suggests a new CU Boulder study.

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Information Science at CSCW 2021

Oct. 22, 2021

Faculty, students, and researchers affiliated with the Department of Information Science at CU Boulder will be presenting work at the CSCW 2021 conference , the premier venue for research on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing. The conference will be held virtually Oct. 23 - 27. Full papers are published...

Fox31 News: “​​Business impacted by Facebook outage? There’s insurance for that”

Oct. 4, 2021

Featuring Casey Fiesler (Information Science)

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