Research Symposiums
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Past Research Symposiums
Speaker | Date | Symposium Title |
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Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Assistant Professor of Science Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program, Georgetown University | 5/9/2022 | Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India |
Benjamin Xie and Jean Salac, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars | 5/2/2022 | Benjamin 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 & Engineering | 4/25/2022 | Organizational Ecologies and the Development of Information Infrastructures |
Yunhe Feng, Maddy Jalbert and Lassana Magassa, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars | 4/18/2022 | Postdoc lightning talks |
Kayla DesPortes, Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and the Learning Sciences at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | 4/11/2022 | In 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 California | 2/28/2022 | Morality, Hate and Computation: Integrating diverse data to study extreme moral behavior in the wild |
Nicholas Weber, UW iSchool | 2/14/2022 | An Architecture of Accountability for Civic Institutions |
Cait McKinney, Assistant Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University | 1/31/2022 | On 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, UCLA | 11/01/2021 | Visual Epistemology and Information Studies |
Daniel Greene, assistant professor, University of Maryland | 10/25/2021 | The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope |
Gordon Pennycook, assistant professor, University of Regina | 10/18/2021 | Lazy thinking and inattention to accuracy drive misinformation on social media |
Afra Mashhadi, assistant professor, UW Bothell | 10/11/2021 | Analyzing biases that impact visit estimation of urban parks & green spaces |
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, professor, UW School of Social Work | 10/4/2021 | Indigenous Land-Based Healing |
Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public | 5/24/2021 | Student-Faculty Collaborations at the Center for an Informed Public |
Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public | 5/17/2021 | Postdoctoral Research at the Center for an Informed Public |
Tara Dawson McGuinness, fellow and senior adviser, New Practice Lab | 5/10/2021 | Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology |
Libby Hemphill, associate professor, University of Michigan School of Information | 5/3/2021 | How Should We Save Social Media Data? |
Adele Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta, co-directors and co founders, Whose Knowledge? | 4/26/2021 | Knowledge (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 Toronto | 4/19/2021 | Digital Bundles and the Role of the Helper |
Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics | 4/12/2021 | Technological Refusal: Reflections on a Politics of Computing |
Kevin Clark, director of original animation, Netflix | 4/5/2021 | Media Youth: Tech, TV & Games, Oh My! |
Nicole Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, School of Information Science, U of SC | 3/29/2021 | Re-envisioning LIS: Activating Social Justice |
Roderic Crooks, Department of Informatics, UC-Irvine | 12/7/2020 | Access Is Capture: Edtech, Datafication, and Racial Capitalism |
Andre Brock, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology | 11/30/2020 | Interrogating the Role of Belief in Technology Design and Use |
Marisa Duarte, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University | 11/16/2020 | McDonalds WiFi is Not a Solution: Challenges to Digital Divide Research in Indian Country Amid COVID-19 |
Tanu Mitra, UW iSchool | 11/9/2020 | Algorithmic Governance: Auditing Search and Recommendation Algorithms for Misinformation |
Bill Howe, UW iSchool | 11/2/2020 | Integrative Data Equity Systems |
Alicia Cheng, MGMT Design | 10/26/2020 | This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot |
Tonia Sutherland, Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa | 10/19/2020 | Speaking for the Dead |
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University | 10/12/2020 | Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society |
Temi Odumosu, Malmö University, Sweden | 10/5/2020 | Colonial JPEGs and Questions of Care in Collections |
Sid Suri, principal researcher, Microsoft | 4/27/2020 | Ghost Work: The Labor that Powers AI |
Eric Gordon, director, Engagement Lab at Emerson College | 4/22/2020 | Meaningful Inefficiencies: Incorporating play and care into the design of socio-technical systems |
Daniel M. Russell, Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google | 2/14/2020 | The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics |
Bernie Boscoe, postdoctoral researcher, UW iSchool | 2/7/2020 | With Strings Attached: Reusing Open Data in Research |
Bo Zhao, assistant professor, Geography, UW | 2/3/2020 | Deep Fake in Geography? When Geospatial Data Encounter Artificial Intelligence |
Lisa Nathan, associate professor, University of British Columbia School of Information | 1/27/2020 | Changing Course: Information Schools & Our Climate Crisis |
Zetta Elliott, children's literature author | 1/21/2020 | Fairies Are for White Girls' and Other Lies My Sister Told Me |
Andrea Hartzler, associate professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, UW | 12/2/2019 | UnBIASED: Understanding Biased Patient-Provider Interaction and Supporting Enhanced Discourse |
Amy J. Ko, associate professor, UW iSchool | 11/26/2019 | Big Ideas Behind the Whyline |
Jens Molbak, founder, WinWin | 11/25/2019 | Building 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 Park | 11/22/2019 | Underestimating Barriers Posted by Cognition and Digital Literacy |
Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children & Youth Services, UW iSchool | 11/18/2019 | A tribute to black childhood in music, story, and pictures |
Michaeil Best, associate professor, Georgia Institute of Technology | 11/5/2019 | Value Sensitive Design & U.N. Peacekeepers |
Anind K. Dey, Amy J. Ko & Jacob O. Wobbrock, UW iSchool faculty members | 11/4/2019 | Lasting Impact: A Panel with 3 Recent iSchool Award Winners |
Emma Spiro, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 10/29/2019 | Online Social Behavior during Crisis Events |
William Jones, research professor emeritus, UW iSchool | 10/28/2019 | Information, knowledge and successful aging |
Megan Finn, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 10/21/2019 | We are all well: A partial history of public information infrastructures after disasters |
Chirag Shah, associate professor, UW iSchool | 10/14/2019 | Counteracting Bias and Increasing Fairness in Search |
Jevin West, associate professor, UW iSchool | 10/7/2019 | Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation |
Tung Bui, chair, professor & director, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i | 9/30/2019 | Toward the institutionalization of communication practices in social media platforms |
S. Craig Watkins, director, Institute for Media Innovation, University of Texas at Austin | 6/10/2019 | The Digital Age: Why Educators Should Develop Future Ready Schools |
Hans Jochen Scholl, professor, UW iSchool | 6/3/2019 | Disaster Response in the Pacific Northwest |
Miranda Belarde-Lewis, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 5/20/2019 | Indigenous Curation: How Community Voices, Tribal History, and Native Art Can Inform Information Science |
Julia Flanders, professor of practice & director, Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University | 5/13/2019 | The Shape of Data |
Susan Hildreth, professor of practice, UW iSchool | 5/21/2018 | Co-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 University | 4/12/2018 | Gravity Spy: Humans, Machines and The Future of Citizen Science |
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 1/8/2018 | Toward a Conception of Data Violence: Data Justice Beyond Distributions |
Jevin West, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 12/4/2017 | Calling BS on Phrenology 2.0 |
Batya Friedman, professor, UW iSchool; and Emily Bender, professor, UW Linguistics Department | 11/20/2017 | Articulating 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 iSchool | 11/13/2017 | Through Formal Analysis and Theories of Meaning: Extending the Trajectory of S. R. Ranganathan’s Theoretical Frameworks in Classification Research |
Bob Boiko, teaching professor, UW iSchool | 11/6/2017 | Figuring Out What’s Next in Pedagogy and Learning Systems |
Volker Wulf, Professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen Germany | 12/5/2016 | Grounded Design: A Practise-based Approach to the Design and Use of IT Artefacts |
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland-College Park | 10/6/2016 | Interactive Visual Discovery in Event Analytics: Exploring Education & Other Data |