Talks & Events
TIPI Workshop at Mozfest 2023
Surveillance and ethical governance: A contextual approach to privacy in the deployment of smart city technologiesWednesday, March 22nd 12:30-2pmCities worldwide are increasingly turning to AI-based surveillance technologies to achieve various public benefits, but...
The End of Digital Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Digital technologies were supposed to help strengthen democracies around the world, not threaten them. In this talk, Professor Gina Neff of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge looks back on the optimism about digital...
The Privacy Imperative: Navigating Trust in the Digital Economy
Please join us for a talk from Professor J. Trevor Hughes, Executive Director, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Time: 3:30-5 p.m. Date: October 13 Place: Moody College of Communication, DMC 3.206 As President and CEO of the International...
Visually provocative: How visual elements influence IRA Facebook advertisement engagements
This week, TIPI researchers will be presenting a recent disinformation study at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in its Communication Technology Division (CTEC).
Broadband as a Utility – Roundtable Discussion
TIPI's Dr. Sharon Strover recently joined Professor Sherri Greenberg and Dr. Kenneth Flamm for a conversation on broadband as a utility in Texas with Dr. Art Markman and the IC² Institute.
TIPI-affiliated research at Disaster PRIMR 2021
2021-02-01 to 2021-02-03 Next week's "Disaster PRIMR 2021 conference" will bring together members of academic institutions, practitioners in the field, and organizations from communities directly affected by disasters to build and share expertise on disaster...
First Annual Symposium of Good Systems—A UT Grand Challenge
2020-10-19, 2:00p - 4:00p From Good Systems: Join us as we examine how our grand challenge work to date has brought us closer to our mission of designing ethical AI technologies, as well as what steps we need to take going forward. The symposium has both live...
Antiracist Tech Club (ART Club) seeks new futures for our engagement with technology
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 Antiracist Tech...
Research on the Texas Hotspot Program
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...
ALA Midwinter Meeting 2020
Dr. Sharon Strover (UT Austin, TIPI) presented on her IMLS Libraries and Disasters research alongside her colleagues Dr. Marcia Mardis (FSU) and Dr. Faye Jones (FSU) on January 26th at 9AM as the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Co-Constructing Disaster...