Publications & Reports
TIPI NCA Annual Conference 2024
The National Communication Association (NCA) is hosting it’s 110th Annual Convention: Communication for Greater Regard from November 21st-24th in New Orleans, Louisiana.
New White Paper Offers Ethical Guidelines for Procurement and Management of Smart City Technologies
The rapid advancement of smart city technologies, particularly the widespread deployment of camera-based surveillance systems, has sparked popular conversation about ethics, transparency, and accountability in data collection and use.
Strengthening Community Resilience: Connecting Online and Offline Networks
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (including TIPI researchers) explored how Texas communities responded during the 2021 winter storm.
Human-AI Teaming During an Ongoing Disaster
When people train and give feedback to a machine involved in machine learning/artificial intelligence, sometimes they communicate with the machine as if it is a valued teammate…
Investigating Ways to Better Communicate Flood Risk
There are very few current flood maps designed to actually help people understand their flood risk…
Case Study Vignettes: Surveillance, Privacy, and Ethical Governance
This case studies series is part of the research project Being Watched: Embedding Ethics in Public Cameras supported by Good Systems: A UT Grand Challenge…
How Residents in Texas Seek Flood Risk Information
A shared sense of duty around seeking flood information is the most important factor behind Texas residents’ motivations to search for flood information.
TIPI Recommendations to Texas Broadband Development Office
More than 12% of Texans live in areas where there is no broadband infrastructure that provides minimally acceptable speeds. And 43.3% of Texans live in areas where there is only one such internet provider.
Reverse-engineering political protest: the Russian Internet Research Agency in the Heart of Texas
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 ‘Heart of Texas.’
Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter
Drawing on the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA)’s propaganda campaign on social media platforms during the 2016 presidential election, the TIPI research team analyzed 3.5K Facebook ads and 3M tweets to examine sentiment and content appeals.