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ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)
4,000+ Facebook posts were analyzed to determine the ability of different emotion models to predict post sharing.
Dr. Cody Buntain | Photo Credit UMIACS
UMIACS: Keeping Up with the Crises: Buntain Builds Digital Tools to Combat Misinformation (ft. Cody Buntain)
An overview of one professor's research and areas of interest
Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant
Funding provided to projects that seek to solve social media misinformation, vulnerable community infrastructure, and racial injustice
Illustration by Valerie Morgan
Maryland Today: Why Is Everyone Joining Threads? (ft. Jen Golbeck)
Twitter’s new rival surges despite snags - a UMD social media expert explains why
NBC’s 11th Hour: Surgeon General Warns About Teens on Social Media (ft. Jen Golbeck)
Professor Jen Golbeck joins a panel of guests on the 11th Hour to address social media’s influence on young people's mental health.
Images via Bored Panda, Twitter
Maryland Today: When a Cat Video Elicits More Than Warm Fuzzies (ft. Susannah Paletz)
Researchers Look at Human Responses to ‘Cuteness’ in Social Media
Cracking the Privacy Code: Navigating the Condor Dataset while Safeguarding User Identities
A Q&A with INFO Assistant Professor Cody Buntain
