Paul Jason Perez and Ma. Cristina Angela Guevarra of KARAPATAN Alliance Philippines were awarded a UCLA Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) Planning Grant of $20,000 for their project titled “Survey and Assessment of Karapatan Archives (Philippines).”

Chirag Shah’s book titled Raising AI: How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping Us – and How We Shape It was published by Bloomsbury. 

Temi Odumosu’s paper titled, “To Be in Conversation with Difficult Images,” was presented at an international symposium titled Difficult Pasts: Ethics & Aesthetics of Telling Difficult Histories organized in collaboration with the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program, the University of Virginia’s Jewish Studies Program, the Centre of Archaeology, University of Huddersfield and the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

Connor Yankowitz (MLIS Student) wrote a blog post titled “Learn Before You Leap; or Why My Community Archives Class Didn’t Have a Practicum,” as part of the Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) project.

Seren Wolfden (MLIS Student) wrote a blog post titled “Passing It On: My FOCAS Community Archives Fellowship at Densho,” as part of the Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) project.

Clarita Lefthand-Begay chaired a roundtable with presenters Nicole S. Kuhn (PhD Student), and Turam Purty (PhD Student) titled, “The Future of Indigenous Data Justice and Governance in the US: Environment, Health, Social Media, and AI,” at the annual Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Meeting (NAISA 2026).

Michael Grass and Danielle Lee Tomson co-presented a talk titled "Authenticity Gaps, Parasocial Media and Institutional Communications in 2026," at Digital Day, a professional development conference for local government communicators co-organized by the City of Seattle and King County.  

Information School researchers and students were well-represented at the The 29th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2026): 

• Paper (Best Paper Award): “YouCred: An Online Tool Co-Designed with Fact-Checkers for Misinformation Discovery on YouTube” by co-authors Prerna Juneja, Dongkai Xie, Guangyin Ye, and Tanu Mitra

• Paper (Method Recognition Award): “Iterative Netnography and Occurrence for Rapid Research: A Case Study of TikTok,” by co-authors Nina Lutz (PhD Student), Kiera Hannuksela, Ethan Hynes, Celestine Le, Adriana Lopez, and Danielle Lee Thompson

• Paper: “Environmental Justice Screening Tools: Current Practices and Future Directions,” by co-authors Amelia Lee Dogan (PhD Student), Soham De (PhD Student), Ufuoma Ovienmhada, and Lindah Kotut

• Paper: “Experts on Call: Infrastructuring Temporary Collaboration Spaces to Support Journalists” by co-authors Melinda McClure Haughey, Rachel Moran, Jessica Huseman, and Kate Starbird

• Paper: “Relational Mediators: LLM Chatbots as Boundary Objects in Psychotherapy,” by co-authors Jiatao Quan, Ziyue Li, Tian Qi Zhu, Yuxuan Li, Baoying Wang, Wanda Pratt, and Nan Gao

• Poster: “I Wasn’t the Only One’: Podcasting as Sociotechnical Infrastructure for Religious Deconstruction, Transition, and Reconfiguration in High Demand Communities,” by Jaden Cowley (PhD Student), Nina Lutz (PhD Student), Gary Hsieh, and Kate Starbird

• Doctoral Consortium: “A Social Norms Approach to Youth Social Media Design,” presented by JaeWon Kim (PhD Student) 

• Panel: “Implications for Action: Taking CSCW Research Beyond the Academy,” co-presented by Rachel Moran and others

• Workshop: “Broader Impacts of GenAI in Communication: Building Agendas for Research, Design, and Policymaking” co-presented by Alexis Hiniker and others

• Workshop: “The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement with Societal Changes,” co-presented by JaeWon Kim (PhD Student) and others

• Workshop: “TikTok on the Clock: Public Scholarship and CSCW in 2026,” co-presented by Kate Starbird and others

• Workshop: “Towards Cross-Pollination Between CSCW and Frontline Environmental and Climate Justice,” co-presented by Amelia Lee Dogan (PhD Student), B Biira (PhD Student), Nina Lutz (PhD Student), Lindah Kotut and others

Amelia Lee Dogan (PhD Student), Nino Migineishvili, Isabel Carrera Zamanillo, Samantha Chee, and Lindah Kotut had their poster titled, "Water Justice through Data Sensemaking" accepted to the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (AGU 2026).

Jason Yip is quoted in an article titled “Meta’s New Social Media Rules Should Have Started with Teens,” published in the South Seattle Emerald.

Kate Starbird is quoted in an article titled “Maricopa County, Arizona, Is Again Ground Zero of Election Conspiracy Theories,” published in WIRED.

Jevin West is quoted in an article titled “Is AI Really Going to Kill Us? UW researchers question the doomsday hype,” published in The Daily.