by TIPI Staff | Sep 16, 2025
Craig Scott (PI), Keri Stephens (Co-PI) and Mir Rabby (Co-PI, and TIPI graduate research assistant) received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As automated decision-making through algorithmic systems is...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 15, 2025
The Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) is thrilled to announce the recipients of our Graduate Student Research Fellowships for Spring 2025. We have funded six exceptional projects at the end of the last spring semester that delve into the complex...
by TIPI Staff | Sep 20, 2024
TIPI is going to the National Communication Association’s (NCA) 110th Annual Convention By TIPI Staff, 9/20/2024 OVERVIEW The National Communication Association (NCA) is hosting it’s 110th Annual Convention: Communication for Greater Regard from November...
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 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 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...
