by TIPI Staff | Aug 3, 2024
Strengthening Community Resilience: Connecting Online and Offline Networks By Jiayu Sun, Keri K. Stephens, Tara Tasuji, Kasey Faust & Sergio Castellanos SUMMARY An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (including TIPI...
by TIPI Staff | Dec 14, 2023
Digital justice is a growing area that explores how societies are, will, and should be affected by digital technology. Cell phone texting, for example, is a widely accessible communication method, making it a valuable tool for reaching a broad and diverse audience...
by Sheila Lalwani | Feb 20, 2023
TIPI Team Begins Research on Digital Navigators Program By Sheila Lalwani | Feb 20, 2023 A team of researchers is working with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) to conduct research examining digital inclusion programs in ten Texas libraries. ...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 31, 2022
We don’t know what we don’t know. I’ve been reminded of this phrase so many times this summer while doing fieldwork for the Digital Risk Infrastructure Program (DRIP) for Underserved Rural Texas Counties. I still remember the first National Science Grant I applied...
by Richelle Crotty | May 3, 2022
The library is oftentimes a crucial Internet access provider in small and rural communities. The most popular way for library patrons to access the Internet is within the walls of the library. However, libraries across the country, and across our project states Texas...
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 TIPI Staff | Feb 25, 2020
TIPI has been working on two projects in Texas communities. The first grows out of several studies examining how libraries use mobile hotspots in both urban and rural areas. Most recently we worked with the Tocker Foundation to supply hotspots and tech support to six...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 6, 2020
Problems of digital exclusion have traditionally been associated with lack of access to technology. Increasingly digital exclusion also emerges with the active agency of state and corporate institutions using AI, smart city infrastructures, surveillance systems and...
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...
