Beyond the Library Doors: Providing Internet Connectivity During and After Disasters
The library is oftentimes a crucial Internet access provider in small and rural communities.
Rural Libraries and Disaster Recovery
When you do not know where to go or who to turn to, and especially when you do not have the devices or connectivity to get online, you go to the library.
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...
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.
Communicating Flood Risk: A New Project with the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas
In an effort to better communicate flood risk to Texans, TIPI’s Keri Stephens, Matt McGlone, and Tara Tasuji are working with the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT) to evaluate different maps used to communicate flood risk.
U.S.-Japan Collaborations Around Disaster and Emergency Alerts, Warnings
A team of UTexas Moody Technology & Information Policy Institute (TIPI) researchers collaborated with scholars from Kyoto University and the University of Colorado Denver to design and execute the 2021 U.S.-Japan Expert Workshop on Mobile Alerts and Warnings.
TIPI January Grant-Writing Workshop Participants Find Success
TIPI is proud to announce that Anastazja Harris and Hyun-Jung (Stephany) Noh, two graduate students who participated in our January grant-writing workshop, have both been awarded major grants to support their research in 2021-22. Congratulations!
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).
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.