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Upcoming Research Symposiums

On May 20, 2024, you're invited to attend Lisa Fazio's research presentation "Can predictive models help us understand political behavior?" Fazio is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. View more details here.

Past Research Symposiums

SpeakerDateSymposium Title
Sabina Tomkins, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information5/6/2024Can predictive models help us understand political behavior?
K.J. Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University4/29/2024Resources for Resilience: Introducing the Digital Transgender Archive and the Homosaurus
Emil Lawrence, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University4/22/2024Sovereign Consumers Aren’t Yet Free Readers
Ted Underwood, Professor of English and Information Sciences at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign4/15/2024How Digital Humanists are Contending with Deep Learning
Patricia Garcia, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan4/1/2024Intermediation: Algorithms, Homelessness, and the Politics of Being In-Between
Kane Race, Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities10/23/2023U = who? The hinterlands of HIV biomedical prevention
Meredith Clark, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies, and Director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change at Northeastern University5/1/2023Keystrokes & Controlled Rage: Measuring the Limits of Black Digital Resistance
Kim Christen, Chair of and a Professor in the Department of Digital Technology and Culture, and Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University4/17/2023'Made by Ancestors’: Territories of Relation and Stewardship of Indigenous Belongings
Sunny Consolvo, UX Researcher at Google4/10/2023A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research
Meredith Broussard, Associate Professor at New York University4/3/2023Confronting Race, Gender, & Ability Bias in Tech
Jin Ha Lee, Professor and Founder/Director of the GAMER Group at the UW's iSchool12/5/2022Misinformation & Popular Culture
Casey Fiesler, Associate Professor in Information Science & Computer Science at CU Boulder11/28/2022Remember the Human: Ethical Considerations for Internet Research
Jason De León, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies at the UCLA,  Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project and the Colibri Center for Human Rights, and Head Curator of the ongoing global exhibition “Hostile Terrain 94"11/14/2022Hostile Terrain 94: Visualizing Undocumented Migration
Andrea Thomer, Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona School of Information11/7/2022Curating longitudinal natural history data through the CHANGES project
Pedja Klasnja, Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan10/31/2022When does it work? Using micro-randomized trials to inform the design of mobile health interventions
Emma Spiro, Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Adjunct Associate Professor in UW's Dept. of Sociology, co-director of SoMeLab, co-founder & co-director of DataLab, and co-founded CIP10/24/2022Election Disinformation: Rapid Response and Repeat Spreaders
Alan Mislove, Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University10/17/2022Discrimination through optimization: Measuring fairness and bias in social network ad delivery
Ryan Calo, Professor in the iSchool and the School of Law at University of Washington; Co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public (CIP)10/10/2022The Scale and the Reactor
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Assistant Professor of Science Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program, Georgetown University5/9/2022Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
Benjamin Xie and Jean Salac, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars5/2/2022Benjamin Xie: “Roles of Student Feedback for Equity in Large Computing Courses”; Jean Salac: “Moving from Equity to Justice in Computing Instruction for Youth”
Charlotte Lee, Associate Professor, UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering4/25/2022Organizational Ecologies and the Development of Information Infrastructures
Yunhe Feng, Maddy Jalbert and Lassana Magassa, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars4/18/2022Postdoc lightning talks
Kayla DesPortes, Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and the Learning Sciences at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development4/11/2022In Pursuit of Culturally Sustaining Education and Technology: Examining the Design of Artistic Computing and Data Literacy Experiences
Morteza Dehghani, Associate Professor of psychology, computer science, and the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California2/28/2022Morality, Hate and Computation: Integrating diverse data to study extreme moral behavior in the wild
Nicholas Weber, UW iSchool2/14/2022An Architecture of Accountability for Civic Institutions
Cait McKinney, Assistant Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University1/31/2022On Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies, UCLA11/01/2021Visual Epistemology and Information Studies
Daniel Greene, assistant professor, University of Maryland10/25/2021The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope
Gordon Pennycook, assistant professor, University of Regina10/18/2021Lazy thinking and inattention to accuracy drive misinformation on social media
Afra Mashhadi, assistant professor, UW Bothell10/11/2021Analyzing biases that impact visit estimation of urban parks & green spaces
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, professor, UW School of Social Work10/4/2021Indigenous Land-Based Healing
Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public5/24/2021Student-Faculty Collaborations at the Center for an Informed Public
Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public5/17/2021Postdoctoral Research at the Center for an Informed Public
Tara Dawson McGuinness, fellow and senior adviser, New Practice Lab5/10/2021Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
Libby Hemphill, associate professor, University of Michigan School of Information5/3/2021How Should We Save Social Media Data?
Adele Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta, co-directors and co founders, Whose Knowledge?4/26/2021Knowledge (in)justice online: the principles and practices of Whose Knowledge?
Jennifer Wemigwans, Assistant Professor - Adult Education and Community Development Program, Dept of Leadership, Higher and Adult Ed, University of Toronto4/19/2021Digital Bundles and the Role of the Helper
Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics4/12/2021Technological Refusal: Reflections on a Politics of Computing
Kevin Clark, director of original animation, Netflix4/5/2021Media Youth: Tech, TV & Games, Oh My!
Nicole Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, School of Information Science, U of SC3/29/2021Re-envisioning LIS: Activating Social Justice
Roderic Crooks, Department of Informatics, UC-Irvine12/7/2020Access Is Capture: Edtech, Datafication, and Racial Capitalism
Andre Brock, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology11/30/2020Interrogating the Role of Belief in Technology Design and Use
Marisa Duarte, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University11/16/2020McDonalds WiFi is Not a Solution: Challenges to Digital Divide Research in Indian Country Amid COVID-19
Tanu Mitra, UW iSchool11/9/2020Algorithmic Governance: Auditing Search and Recommendation Algorithms for Misinformation
Bill Howe, UW iSchool11/2/2020Integrative Data Equity Systems
Alicia Cheng, MGMT Design10/26/2020This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot
Tonia Sutherland, Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa10/19/2020Speaking for the Dead
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University10/12/2020Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
Temi Odumosu, Malmö University, Sweden10/5/2020Colonial JPEGs and Questions of Care in Collections
Sid Suri, principal researcher, Microsoft4/27/2020Ghost Work: The Labor that Powers AI
Eric Gordon, director, Engagement Lab at Emerson College4/22/2020Meaningful Inefficiencies: Incorporating play and care into the design of socio-technical systems
Daniel M. Russell, Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google2/14/2020The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics
Bernie Boscoe, postdoctoral researcher, UW iSchool2/7/2020With Strings Attached: Reusing Open Data in Research
Bo Zhao, assistant professor, Geography, UW2/3/2020Deep Fake in Geography? When Geospatial Data Encounter Artificial Intelligence
Lisa Nathan, associate professor, University of British Columbia School of Information1/27/2020Changing Course: Information Schools & Our Climate Crisis
Zetta Elliott, children's literature author1/21/2020Fairies Are for White Girls' and Other Lies My Sister Told Me
Andrea Hartzler, associate professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, UW12/2/2019UnBIASED: Understanding Biased Patient-Provider Interaction and Supporting Enhanced Discourse
Amy J. Ko, associate professor, UW iSchool11/26/2019Big Ideas Behind the Whyline
Jens Molbak, founder, WinWin11/25/2019Building a 'Tri-Sector' Open Data Tech Platform to Drive Societal Progress at Scale
Greg Vanderheiden, director & founder, Trace R&D Center, University of Maryland - College Park11/22/2019Underestimating Barriers Posted by Cognition and Digital Literacy
Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children & Youth Services, UW iSchool11/18/2019A tribute to black childhood in music, story, and pictures
Michaeil Best, associate professor, Georgia Institute of Technology11/5/2019Value Sensitive Design & U.N. Peacekeepers
Anind K. Dey, Amy J. Ko & Jacob O. Wobbrock, UW iSchool faculty members11/4/2019Lasting Impact: A Panel with 3 Recent iSchool Award Winners
Emma Spiro, assistant professor, UW iSchool10/29/2019Online Social Behavior during Crisis Events
William Jones, research professor emeritus, UW iSchool10/28/2019Information, knowledge and successful aging
Megan Finn, assistant professor, UW iSchool10/21/2019We are all well: A partial history of public information infrastructures after disasters
Chirag Shah, associate professor, UW iSchool10/14/2019Counteracting Bias and Increasing Fairness in Search
Jevin West, associate professor, UW iSchool10/7/2019Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation
Tung Bui, chair, professor & director, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i9/30/2019Toward the institutionalization of communication practices in social media platforms
S. Craig Watkins, director, Institute for Media Innovation, University of Texas at Austin6/10/2019The Digital Age: Why Educators Should Develop Future Ready Schools
Hans Jochen Scholl, professor, UW iSchool6/3/2019Disaster Response in the Pacific Northwest
Miranda Belarde-Lewis, assistant professor, UW iSchool5/20/2019Indigenous Curation: How Community Voices, Tribal History, and Native Art Can Inform Information Science
Julia Flanders, professor of practice & director, Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University5/13/2019The Shape of Data
Susan Hildreth, professor of practice, UW iSchool5/21/2018Co-Creating MLIS Curriculum for Cultural Competence and Community-Driven Learning: Making Progress for the Future of Libraries
Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Associate Dean for Research, Syracuse University4/12/2018Gravity Spy: Humans, Machines and The Future of Citizen Science
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, assistant professor, UW iSchool1/8/2018Toward a Conception of Data Violence: Data Justice Beyond Distributions
Jevin West, assistant professor, UW iSchool12/4/2017Calling BS on Phrenology 2.0
Batya Friedman, professor, UW iSchool; and Emily Bender, professor, UW Linguistics Department11/20/2017Articulating How NLP Data and Systems Do and Don't Represent the World: Toward Mitigating Bias and Enabling Better Science
Joseph T. Tennis, associate professor, UW iSchool11/13/2017Through Formal Analysis and Theories of Meaning: Extending the Trajectory of S. R. Ranganathan’s Theoretical Frameworks in Classification Research
Bob Boiko, teaching professor, UW iSchool11/6/2017Figuring Out What’s Next in Pedagogy and Learning Systems
Volker Wulf, Professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen Germany12/5/2016Grounded Design: A Practise-based Approach to the Design and Use of IT Artefacts
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland-College Park10/6/2016Interactive Visual Discovery in Event Analytics: Exploring Education & Other Data

 

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Students (from left) Harman Zhang, Sara Duan, Justin Dong, Noa Avitan and David Pham

Informatics team helps music streamer earn money for artists

Thursday, May 22, 2025
For a music creator, getting paid by listeners around the world should be as simple as a fan clicking “subscribe.” But for many artists in less developed countries, existing streaming platforms make that difficult or out of reach.An...
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Alex Heller, Alina Weseloh and Ilias Bowen-Sicalides

MLIS team preserves a piece of radio history

Friday, May 16, 2025
From 1973 to 2011, the Evergreen Radio Reading Service served blind and print-disabled listeners across the state of Washington. Now, with its recordings stored in a fragile audio archive and at risk of permanent loss, a team of MLIS...
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