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Conferences & Symposia Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered a lecture entitled “The Creator Economy's Labor Revolution” at SXSW 2025 in Austin, Texas. Despite the astonishing growth of the creator economy, social media creators remain...

Events On February 6, the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures (RJEF) will present a faculty panel, “The Purpose and Practice of Care: Sustaining Resilience to Preserve and Transform Communities,” the opening event in their Black...

Briefings, Conference Presentations & Workshops Leaders of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) held a briefing in Albany, NY, for state agency and legislative staff on the subject of “Independent Evaluation of Technology Policy.”...

Conference Presentations Research Associate Sarah Gilbert will co-deliver the paper “Whose Knowledge is Valued?: Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications” at the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing conference. While policies...

Media Coverage Research Associate Sarah Gilbert was quoted in the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research podcast “ Research Ethics across Domains.” The podcast explored the intersection of research ethics, online communities, and...

Conferences Associate Professor Dawn Schrader is organizing and chairing a conference session for the annual American Association for Educational Research conference. She will chair the Moral Development and Education Special Interest Group’s...

Lectures On March 15, 2024, Professor Bruce Lewenstein delivered the inaugural lecture for Northeastern University’s Public Engagement with Science Hub, entitled “The Past, Present, and Future of Public Engagement with Science.” Bruce provided a...

Award Graduate Student Amanda Vilchez received the Equitable Conservation Award & Conservation Evidence Special Recognition from Bat Conservation International. The award recognizes her research project, “Let’s Talk about Bats: Citizen Science...

Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, February 9, at 1:00 pm in 102 Mann Library Building. Postdoctoral Associate Miki Matsumuro will present “Cognitive Modeling in Human-Computer, Human-Machine, and Human-Agent Interaction.” The colloquium...

Awards Postdoctoral Associate Sarah Gilbert received a Postdoctoral Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership awarded by Cornell University. The award recognizes postdocs who demonstrate innovative, initiative-driven leadership impacting...

Conferences & Invited Lectures Professor Bruce Lewenstein delivered the paper “Core Competencies for Communicating Basic Science” at the SciPEP workshop on equipping scientists to communicate about basic research, which was co-sponsored by the...

Conferences & Invited Lectures Associate Professor Jon Schuldt participated in “Experts on Camera,” a series of interviews with scientists hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which are made freely available to...

Awards Grad student Rebekah Wicke received the Amanda L. Kundrat Thesis of the Year Award from the Health Communication division of the International Communication Association and National Communication Association. Conferences & Invited...