by TIPI Staff | Jul 5, 2019
Abstract: A great deal of scholarship on broadband deployment and federal policies has positioned rural America through a deficit framework: rural parts of the country have older populations (and therefore not tech savvy), are poor (and therefore justifiably ignored...
by TIPI Staff | Jun 18, 2019
In support of closing the rural connectivity gap in Texas, Glasshouse Policy partnered with AARP, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), and the University of Texas Technology and Information Policy Institute to host a series of town halls and...
by TIPI Staff | Jun 12, 2019
To help support entrepreneurs and small-business owners — key drivers of prosperity in rural Texas — the IC² Institute at The University of Texas at Austin is funding new research on entrepreneurship in rural and small city environments. To spur innovation and...
by TIPI Staff | May 3, 2019
TIPI Guest Lecture with Marko Ala-Fossi 2019-05-03, 3:30 p.m. University Lecturer, Adjunct ProfessorFaculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC)The Communication Sciences UnitTampere University, Tampere, Finland
by TIPI Staff | Apr 26, 2019
Sharon Strover and German Alvarez presented Facebook and the Russian IRA Campaign. This symposium encouraged a fruitful conversation about the role and impact of mainstream and social media—and in particular about information and disinformation wars—in political...
by TIPI Staff | Apr 25, 2019
2019-06-03, 11:30 a.m., CMB 3.112 Join us for a special brown bag lunch featuring RTF & Journalism doctoral student presentations. Richelle Crotty & Alexis Schrubbe: A Band-Aid on the Digital Divide: Investigating Mobile Beacon and Library Mobile Hotspot...
by TIPI Staff | Apr 3, 2019
2019-04-04, 3:30 p.m., BMC 5.208 This lecture examines a fundamentally important question for the future of society. Is there ever likely to be an effective challenge to the pursuit of wealth through inequitable mass individualization? The ‘platformization of...
by TIPI Staff | Feb 1, 2019
Nico Carpentier is Docent at Charles University in Prague, Professor at Uppsala University, and Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB – Free University of Brussels). Moreover, he is a Research Fellow at the Cyprus University of Technology and...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 19, 2019
TIPI is wrapping up the final phase of data collection as part of its IMLS grant examining rural libraries, hotspot lending programs, and local connectivity. We conducted a survey of six communities out of the 24 with which we worked to investigate how local citizens...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 13, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 1:30 – 3 p.m. CST Moody College of Communication Lady Bird Johnson Room CMA 5.136 Join the Technology & Information Policy Institute and the Media Ethics Initiative as they host Samuel C. Woolley, Assistant Professor in the Journalism...
