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 TIPI Staff | Jul 13, 2020
If you’re interested in data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and creating new futures for our engagement with technology, you’re in the right place. We’re an interdisciplinary group of librarians, information scholars, and humanities students. The...
by Mitch Chaiet | Apr 8, 2020
Weaponizing the spread of memetic content became a priority of Russian disinformation efforts during the 2016 US Presidential election. Using reverse image search tactics and cutting edge open-source intelligence technologies, University of Texas undergraduate Mitch...
by TIPI Staff | Mar 11, 2020
As part of the campus-wide Good Systems initiative, TIPI has invited two new researchers, Tiancheng (Leo) Cao and Brad Limov to the Disinformation team. They will investigate questions about how message circulation and associated display properties mobilize...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 16, 2020
"Secret Cyborg Social Work Superheroes" by Henry Stokes "Human in the Loop" by Ayat Mohammed "Expertise Hanging in the Balance by Adam Rabinowitz, Gary Kao, Krishna Murthy Gurumurthy, and Richard Ketcham "Data Shaman" by Anne Bowen "IRREDCUIBLE UNCERTAINTY?" by Barry...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 16, 2020
Photo credit: Rob Dobi, The Globe and Mail Disinformation Research for Good Systems Summary The Internet, with its ubiquitous presence, viral pull and anonymity, can be a central tool for disinformation. Unfortunately, the economic models of media industries...
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...
by TIPI Staff | Sep 26, 2019
When people hear the term artificial intelligence or AI, there may be a tendency to think of the latest “Terminator” movie or fall for the hype of menacing machines controlling our existence and destroying humanity. Tim Hwang, a lawyer, writer, and researcher working...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 19, 2019
Ethical Data Design for Good Systems Summary: We conceptualize data and its handling as the core elements in building good systems, recognizing that data and the systems that manage it are not neutral but rather implicated in a chain of decisions, organizational...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 16, 2019
How can we ensure that AI is beneficial – not detrimental – to humanity? How can we develop technology that makes life better for all of us, not just some? What unintended consequences are we overlooking or ignoring by developing technology that has the...
