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TIPI Presents at Information Wars: Social Media and Politics in Russia & Eastern Europe Symposium
This symposium encouraged a fruitful conversation about the role and impact of mainstream and social media—and in particular about information and disinformation wars—in political battles, trajectories, and outcomes in Russia and Eastern Europe. Speakers discussed the ways in which these processes and networks have had global impacts, such as in the 2016 US elections and beyond.
TIPI Brown Bag Lunch Featuring RTF & Journalism Doctoral Student Presentations
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...
Injustices of Digital Disruption: More Tepid Policy or a Radical Democratic Turn?
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...
Beyond the Written Text: Visual Communication & Academic Research
Nico Carpentier is Docent at Charles University in Prague, Professor at Uppsala University, and Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB – Free...
TIPI Wraps Up Final Phase of Data Collection for the IMLS Grant
TIPI is wrapping up the final phase of data collection as part of its IMLS grant examining rural libraries, hotspot lending programs, and local connectivity. We...
The Ethical Operating System: How Not to Regret the Things You Build
The current wave of computational propaganda has taken the world by surprise. Technology firms, policymakers, journalists and the general public are scrambling to respond to the societal threats posed by disinformation and politically motivated trolling. This talk outlines one method for responding to these issues. It describes and presents the Ethical Operating System (ethicalOS.org), a toolkit for anticipating future uses of technology.
Portugal Program Moves to a Third Phase After 10 Years of Success
We have achieved the creation of a vibrant, energetic and breakthrough group of scholars tackling some of the most important issues of the day. The Digital Media area’s...
Student Spotlight: Patrícia Nogueira
Patrícia Nogueira graduated from the UT Austin | Portugal digital media doctoral program in 2018. Part of her work included spending a semester in Austin where she did...
Digital Media Speaker Series with Phil Napoli
Technology & Information Policy Institute (TIPI) presents a talk by Philip M. Napoli, co-sponsored by the Digital Media Speaker Series, Good Systems, and the...
Broadband: “The Backbone of Communication”
The term 'broadband' refers to an advanced telecommunication service that developed from a need for greater amounts of information to be transmitted across the...