by TIPI Staff | Sep 26, 2019
Guest writer and UT Austin Journalism undergradutate, Emily Brown On Friday, Sept. 2o, Samuel Woolley, a leading researcher in the intersection of politics and technology, gave a lunch-time lecture regarding the dangers of computational propaganda. “We need to...
by TIPI Staff | Sep 26, 2019
TIPI awarded Richelle Crotty a travel fellowship to TRPC47 to present her poster: Fallow Fields or Unyielding Potential? An Examination of EBS Proposed Rulemaking Comments and the Public Interest. Abstract Regulatory frameworks are in place that fund the distribution...
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 26, 2019
2019-09-04, 4 – 6 p.m., Patton Hall (RLP), 1.302D 305 23RD ST E, Austin, Texas 78712 Abstract: What have been the main approaches to the study of infrastructure that now combine to make the topic of such compelling socio-political, technological,...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 22, 2019
2019-09-20, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., Lady Bird Johnson Room, CMA 5.136 Join the Technology & Information Policy Institute as we host Samuel C. Woolley, Assistant Professor in the Journalism School at the Moody College of Communication. Professor Woolley will...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 29, 2019
2019-03-11, 11 a.m., Engineering Education and Research Center Mulva Auditorium Good Systems is hosting a fireside chat with Julie Brill, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, and Professor Sharon Strover from the Moody College of...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 29, 2019
2019-08-07, 3:30 p.m. Join TIPI as we welcome Eric Meyer as the new dean of the School of Information! Eric will talk about Human-Machine networks. The story of society is inextricably bound with the rise of tools and machines. In the digital age, the machines we have...
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 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...