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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.
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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
Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian
ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)
Social media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …
(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption
The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.
