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Responding to New Layers of Disasters
Hurricane Laura and the challenges of remote learning Hurricane Laura was initially predicted to avoid the majority of Texas and impact Louisiana, but by early Tuesday...
COVID-19 and Virtual School: The coming criminalization of lacking broadband in the United States
Positioned between major pressure points of the increasing infection rate in the majority of the US and the memory of virtual school they experienced in the spring,...
Redundancy is the Key to Stability – The Bling Box Boutique in Cameron, TX
The Bling Box Boutique began as an experiment by Jeremy and Courtney Renaud eleven years ago. In a recent interview with the TIPI research team, Jeremy explained that...
Digital Inequalities and Homework Gap in Austin, Texas
As schools rely more and more on digital tools for teaching and learning, concerns over universal access to broadband Internet and computers start to emerge. The...
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...
Meme Hacking: Unearthing Russian Misinformation Efforts
Weaponizing the spread of memetic content became a priority of Russian disinformation efforts during the 2016 US Presidential election. Using reverse image search...
TIPI Welcomes New Fellows!
As part of the campus-wide Good Systems initiative, TIPI has invited two new researchers, Tiancheng (Leo) Cao and Brad Limov to the Disinformation team. They will...
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...
Rural Broadband Economic Development
by Dr. Sharon Strover Several years ago, I met with many local economic development people throughout various Texas towns. They all said, “I want this town to be...
Shiny Things Workshop
There is so much buzz about artificial intelligence, but what’s real and what’s fiction? In this hands-on session about AI’s effects on science and...