Many social media users rely on their feeds for news, but those feeds are sometimes flooded with disinformation from people and organizations with their own agenda — a phenomenon known as "astroturfing." Tanu Mitra, an assistant...
Women in Informatics (Winfo), an Information School student organization, welcomed 190 students from across the UW for its ninth annual Hackathon. The three-day event was hosted on an online video conferencing platform, Remo, starting Jan...
Many families have unwittingly been taking part in a huge social experiment. They’ve invited conversational agents such as Siri and Alexa into their homes, but how do these new technologies affect children’s social development? The...
Everybody’s heard the saying “one person, one vote,” right? Deep down we all know better, far from it, through various notions of who qualifies as a "person” and who gets to vote and yet still we say it. Elections are...
Can our search results be fairer? Can the systems that generate them be smarter? Are the recommendations we get from Google, Amazon or Netflix really the best they can be? Those are some of the topics researchers investigate in the...
Universities expect graduate students to engage in scholarly research. Undergraduates, not so much. Jill McKinstry, champion of rigorous undergraduate learning, set out to change that on the University of Washington campus....
The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a nonpartisan coalition of researchers that identified, tracked and responded to voting-related mis- and disinformation during the 2020 U.S. elections, released its final report, “The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election,” on March 2. The...
Twenty-six middle and high school students in Washington state spent four days brainstorming technology solutions in an online challenge hosted by Information School student leaders. The event, “Fear Less, Tech More,” is part of “High School to iSchool,” a series of events designed to...
The Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the University of Washington Information School was re-accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) in early 2021. The UW’s MLIS program has been continuously accredited by the ALA since 1926 and is the oldest accredited program...
Seventeen Information School students were among 36 recipients of UW Libraries Student Employee Scholarships, the university has announced. The winners include 15 students from the iSchool’s Master of Library and Information Science program and two from the Master of Science in Information Management...
Center for an Informed Public postdoctoral fellow Rachel Moran and University of Washington Information School PhD student Sarah Nguyễn recently received funding from the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) at The George Washington...
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