Events Category: Colloquium

Specifically, this project explores how representations of Black people in film, television, and social media are used by Black adolescents to construct unique identities through critical engagements in their informal learning environments. (Click for more information) Event Details

Carol Tenopir is a Chancellor’s Professor and Board of Visitors Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Carol will be presenting a colloquium to the School of Information on December 8th, 2020. Event Details

Mark Billinghurst is Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia. He will be presenting a colloquium to the School of Information on November 10th. Event Details

This "lightning talk" will involve a number of discussions given by iSchool post-doctoral research fellows. Click for more details. Event Details

This talk focuses on development of spatial analytical models to address issues of food access and water stress in urban areas. Event Details

I argue that to design effective tools we need to first understand how people participate and engage with disinformation. Event Details

User-generated content circulates through and beyond social media, becoming part of a global information ecosystem. But there are gaps between the ways we as users think it moves, how social companies tell us it moves, and how it actually moves. Event Details

In this talk, I will discuss how our social computing systems are being used to intentionally spread misleading information and what we — as researchers, educators and designers — might do to address this. Event Details

In this talk, I will show how users attempt to adapt to platforms in the context of online self-presentation behavior by forming folk theories, or informal and quasi-causal theories of what platforms are and how they operate which guide user decision making. Event Details

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