Talks & Events
Surveillance Ordinances in Five U.S. Cities
In the summer of 2022, Good Systems generously supported three undergraduate students to work with the Being Watched team. We were pleased to have Helen Kang (Informatics '25), Abha Misaqi (Economics '25), and Zak Turner (Mechanical Engineering '23) working on various...
TIPI @ Good Systems 2022 Annual Symposium
In April 2020, Good Systems held its 2022 annual symposium. Members of the Being Watched project participated in several sessions, including a poster & mingling session held by the team on April 7, a core project presentation by Dr. Sharon Strover and Dr. Atlas...
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...
ICA 2021 Post-conference
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...