Research stories
- Without access to social media data, disinformation and hate speech may get easier to spread—and harder to detect.
- Incoming professors bring an interest in cutting-edge topics at a time when the media landscape is undergoing dramatic change.
- A creator and scholar says a much-hated Apple ad is standing in for a larger conversation about how tech companies build and deploy A.I.
- Licensing deals OpenAI signed with The Atlantic and Vox Media have CMCI experts asking questions.
- Following years of high-profile shootings, Chris Vargo expected to find rising public salience around gun control. He didn’t.
- A CMCI graduate’s working-class upbringing has given her a unique perspective on tech, wage theft and exploitation, which she’s bringing to an Ivy League doctoral program.
- Researcher’s experience in advertising, marketing and PR gives her a unique angle to study organizational communications and policy around climate impact and awareness.
- Harsha Gangadharbatla loves the challenge of inspiring students who sit in the last row of the lecture hall. His attention to his craft and his classes led to a prestigious teaching award from the American Academy of Advertising last month.
- A new book from Nathan Schneider argues that attempts to impose democracy on the internet have failed for cultural and technical reasons. But what if we used it as a tool to solve these problems?
- This year, the pop megastar has become a regular at Kansas City Chiefs NFL games, but not everyone is happy about seeing her on screen. Teaching Associate Professor Jamie Skerski gives her take on why Swift is facing such a backlash, and how it reflects a boys-only culture in the world of football.