Associate Professor Drew Margolin received the Editor’s Choice Award from Nature Communications Engineering for his journal article “The Economic Value of Augmentative Exoskeletons and Their Assistance.”
Events
Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, February 16, at 1:00 pm in 102 Mann Library Building. Professor Jeff Niederdeppe will present “Engage, Monitor, Test, Repeat: Media and Messaging for Health and Social Policy.” The colloquium is followed by a reception, located in The Hub of the Department of Communication.
Media Coverage
Professor Lee Humphreys was featured in the International Communication Association Newsletter’s Member Spotlight.
Graduate Student Alisius Leong was featured in the Cornell Chronicle article “Study Teases out Strategies to Prevent Fatal Deer Disease Re-entering NY” on her research on the efficacy of social media interventions to increase risk perceptions of Chronic Wasting Disease. See Publications below for link to research article.
Assistant Professor Nathan Matias was quoted in the Cornell Chronicle article “Cornell Joins Federal AI Safety Institute Consortium” about the urgent need to protect the many people affected by AI.
The Wall Street Journal referenced research by Graduate Students Lucas Wright and Roxana Muenster, Assistant Professor Nathan Matias, et al in the article “New York City Passed an AI Hiring Law. So Far, Few Companies Are Following It.” The article references their study (with colleagues from Data & Society and Consumer Reports) “Null Compliance: NYC Local Law 144 and the Challenges of Algorithm Accountability,” which they conducted with students in Communication and Technology (COMM 2450) last semester. In order to evaluate compliance with a new AI law in NYC, they trained students to find the hiring algorithm bias audits and transparency notices required by the law and assigned them companies to investigate in exchange for extra credit.
Publications
Graduate Student Alisius Leong, Bruce Lauber, William Siemer…Katherine McComas, December 2023, “Social-Psychological Factors Influencing Risk Perceptions of Chronic Wasting Disease on Social Media,” Human Dimensions of Wildlife. The authors conducted an online survey with 2760 NYS hunters to identify factors underlying the efficacy of social media interventions to increase risk perceptions of CWD in NYS. The findings showed that source similarity was the key mechanism through which a change in risk perceptions occurred. Individual differences in biospheric values, descriptive norms, and knowledge also influenced the ability of social media interventions to increase risk perceptions towards CWD.
