Tanu Mitra gave an invited keynote talk at the FEVER workshop (Fact Extraction and VERification) at ACL 2022. Her talk was titled, “Problematic Information on Social Media Platforms: Understanding and Countering.” Jevin West gave an invited lecture at the annual conference for the...

Heather Whiteman has the following news to share this week: She received a Fulbright Scholar Award which begins this June 2022. She will spend Summer 2022 and Winter 2023 quarters as a program director and will be designing, delivering, and standing up a master’s level specialization...

Emma Spiro gave a keynote at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Technologies to Support Critical Thinking in an Age of Misinformation. Chris Coward also participated, running the Misinformation Escape Room. Marika Cifor gave a talk for her forthcoming book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of...

Annie Searle’s article, “Ensuring An Ethical Lens on the Board Member Selection Process,” is the April BRC Report. The Board Risk Committee (BRC) is a thought leadership peer forum dedicated to Board Risk Committee members and Chief Risk Officers (CROs), a trusted place for the exchange...

Melanie Walsh’s free online programming textbook, Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python, was voted the "Best Digital Humanities Training Material" of 2021 by the Digital Humanities Awards. Melanie Walsh also gave her first keynote speech, "Data as Culture," at the Women in Data...

On April 23, Michelle H. Martin will be inducted into the Illinois State University College of Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame (her PhD alma mater). Michelle H. Martin gave the keynote address at the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Research Symposium hosted by the College of Information and...

Tanu Mitra: Gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan School of Information’s Data Science/Computational Social Science seminar series: “Understanding and Countering Problematic Information on Social Media Platforms.” Hayoung Jung, a CS undergraduate advised by Tanu Mitra,...

Batya Friedman presented a keynote at the iConference last week titled “Structure, Scale, and Time: iSchools, Artificial Intelligence, and which Future.” Jochen Scholl had a peer-reviewed book chapter published titled "Digital Government Research: A Diverse Domain" in Y. Charalabidis,...

Dave Hendry and Esther Min (UW School of Public Health/Front and Centered) were awarded a Living Landscapes Incubator grant of $25,000 for Toward the Design of a Sociotechnical Platform for Environmental Reporting, Response, and Action to Support Thriving Communities. Chris Coward, Julie Kientz...

Chirag Shah and Yunhe Feng were interviewed for a UW News article titled, “Google’s ‘CEO’ image search gender bias hasn’t really been fixed.” Yunhe Feng was awarded an iSchool Strategic Research Fund (SRF) Proposal Development grant of $4,000 for Investigating Fairness and...

Bill Howe was included in a list of “leading academic data leaders” by Chief Data Officer Magazine: “CDO Magazine Announces Its 2022 List of Leading Academic Data Leaders.” Katherine Cross published an editorial in Sociological Review's COVID Refigurations issue about how the pandemic...

Jacob O. Wobbrock published a 70-page journal article in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI): Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2022). Clarifying agreement calculations and analysis for end-user elicitation studies. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 29 (1). Article...

Carole Palmer, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sandy Littletree, Nicholas Weber, Christopher Teuton (UW American Indian Studies), and Tami Hohn (UW American Indian Studies) received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award of $500,000 for Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship and Sovereignty. Christopher...

Karen Fisher and Ayat Nashwan have been awarded a $50,000 Foundational Integrity Research program grant by Facebook for Digital Literacy and Social Media UX of Marginalized Women and Girls in Jordan. Amy J. Ko published a new book titled Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary...

Aylin Caliskan had two papers published at EMNLP 2021 and presented them at the conference last month: Robert Wolfe and Aylin Caliskan. “Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models.” Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP...