Marika Cifor’s book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS, was named in The Atlantic as one of nine books by which to better understand viruses and pandemics: “The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health.”

Marika Cifor will be in conversation about her book, Viral Cultures, with Joe Osmundson (NYU) at a virtual event hosted by Elliott Bay Books on Friday, June 10 at 6 p.m.: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/marika-l-cifor-joseph-osmundson.

Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, and Tanu Mitra received the ICWSM-2022 Best Paper Award  for Pathways through Conspiracy: The Evolution of Conspiracy Radicalization through Engagement in Online Conspiracy Discussions.

Tanu Mitra was a keynote speaker at ICWSM-2022: “Credibility and Misinformation in Social Media: Reflections from Studying, Auditing, and Building Online Social Systems.”

Yim Register and Emma Spiro had their paper published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Register, Y., & Spiro, E. S. (2022). Developing Self-Advocacy Skills through Machine Learning Education: The Case of Ad Recommendation on Facebook. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 16(1), 817-828. Retrieved from https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19337

Tanu Mitra contributed to a second paper published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Guo, Z., Cho, J.-H., Chen, I.-R., Sengupta, S., Hong, M., & Mitra, T. (2022). SAFER: Social Capital-Based Friend Recommendation to Defend against Phishing Attacks. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 16(1), 241-252. Retrieved from https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19288

Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh, David Mimno, and Matthew Wilkens ran a workshop at ICWSM-2022: BERT for Social Sciences and Humanities.

Chance Hunt was interviewed for a Spokesman Review article about the reopening of Spokane’s main library: “‘Libraries are evolving’: Renovated downtown Spokane library set to reopen July 11.” 

Ather Sharif, Jacob O. Wobbrock, and Katharina Reinecke were interviewed about VoxLens for a Cosmos article: “Data visualisations made more accessible to screen reader users.”

Katherine Cross made a guest appearance on the TechTank Podcast from The Brookings Institution: “Deciphering the Metaverse.”