Events

Tuesday Feb. 25, 2020
University of Texas iSchool logo with crest on an orange background
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
UTA 1.208

Come learn about careers available at Deloitte Digital! Event Details

Friday Feb. 21, 2020
University of Texas iSchool logo with crest on an orange background
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
UTA 1.508 (Tocker Lounge)

Come by to polish your LinkedIn with the Career Development Office, or learn best practices for getting one started! Event Details

Thursday Feb. 20, 2020
Saiph Savage, research scientist and software engineer
9 to 10:30 a.m.
UTA 5.522

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

Tuesday Feb. 18, 2020
Nicholas Proferes
1:15 to 2:30 p.m.
UTA 5.522

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

Tuesday Feb. 18, 2020
University of Texas iSchool logo with crest on an orange background
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
UTA 1.208

Come by to learn about Favor Headquarters careers! Event Details

Friday Feb. 14, 2020
University of Texas iSchool logo with crest on an orange background
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
UTA 1.508 (Tocker Lounge)

Come by to polish your interview skills with the Career Development Office! Event Details

Thursday Feb. 13, 2020
Ahmer Arif
9 to 10:30 a.m.
UTA 5.522

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

Wednesday Feb. 12, 2020
Red and black logo of the UT Student Association for the School of Information
6:30 to 8 p.m.
UTA 1.208

Event Details

Tuesday Feb. 11, 2020
Mike DeVito
1:15 to 2:30 p.m.
UTA 5.522

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

Friday Feb. 7, 2020
University of Texas iSchool logo with crest on an orange background
4 to 6 p.m.
UTA 1.208

Join us to hear from alumni working in archives, records management, libraries, & taxonomy! Nibbles from Central Market will be provided! Event Details