by TIPI Staff | Jul 22, 2023
Human-AI Teaming During an Ongoing Disaster BY TARA TASUJI & KERI K. STEPHENS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | JUL 22, 2023 Bringing research into the real world… of baseball In 2023, CBS Austin, Texas reported on a system being tested during the Round Rock...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 1, 2023
Summary There are very few current flood maps designed to actually help people understand their flood risk: they are designed as regulation and planning tools. In an effort to understand how flood maps can more accurately show and communicate the changing nature of...
by Leo Cao | Jun 27, 2023
This case studies series is part of the research project Being Watched: Embedding Ethics in Public Cameras supported by Good Systems: A UT Grand Challenge. Two workshops that utilized the case studies have been presented by the TIPI team at ICEGOV 2022 and MozFest...
by TIPI Staff | Apr 20, 2023
Summary A recent study in Risk Analysis by researchers at the Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) found that a shared sense of duty around seeking flood information — if your family or community thinks it’s important to do, so will you — is the most...
by Richelle Crotty | Apr 5, 2022
On March 10, 2022, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr. Richelle Crotty attended the Broadband Listening Tour of the Texas Broadband Development Office (BDO) to share TIPI’s recommendations for the development of Texas’ first broadband plan. In advance of the influx of...
by Martin Riedl | Jul 23, 2021
For a new study recently published in Information, Communication & Society, TIPI looked at protests in Houston, Texas that occurred prior to the 2016 elections and which had been connected to the Russian Internet Research Agency-sponsored Facebook page...
by Soyoung Park | Jun 9, 2021
In recent years, misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda have proliferated across diverse digital media platforms. Past attempts of malicious actors to disseminate unreliable and misleading information through social media have effectively fragmented the...
by W. Roth Smith, PhD | Feb 28, 2021
We are excited to announce the publication of our latest article “A different type of disaster response volunteer: Looking behind the scenes to reveal coordinating actions of disaster knowledge workers” in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. The term...
by Melissa Santillana | Jul 16, 2020
As schools rely more and more on digital tools for teaching and learning, concerns over universal access to broadband Internet and computers start to emerge. The homework gap refers to the challenges school-age children experience completing their homework due to lack...
by TIPI Staff | Dec 2, 2019
Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election has expanded discussions about the role of misinformation in politics as well as people’s information behavior. While many studies have been conducted to unravel the strategies and impacts of the Russian IRA’s...
