KEYWORD

digital technology

UCI-led study finds Harry Potter fan fiction challenges cultural stereotypes of autism

Digital media platforms enable marginalized groups to offer alternative representations

Growing up digital

New lab in Calit2 looks at the smartphone generation

New school of thought

First ‘active learning’ building in California opens at UCI

Smartphones act as digital security blankets in stressful social situations

Possession, not use, of a mobile phone counteracts feelings of isolation, UCI-led study finds

UCI engineers host workshops in East Africa on UCI-developed precipitation technology

Since water is increasingly scarce in arid East Africa, the region’s scientists and engineers have an ongoing need to know about the latest satellite precipitation data and information systems. Experts from UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing traveled to Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in July to host workshops for government meteorologists and researchers from […]

UCI professor of education gets grant to help stem student phenomenon of ‘summer melt’

June Ahn, UCI associate professor of education, has been awarded a two-year, $397,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences under its researcher-practitioner partnerships program. His project will explore how to scale mentorship via a text messaging application that incorporates social and emotional supports to help stem “summer melt,” in which motivated and academically prepared […]

Exposing digital extremism

Understanding the ‘weaponization’ of social media is the first step

Cybersphere of influence

Social ecologists probe positive, negative effects of digital technology

Fountain of Youth

Anthropologist explores how avatars create a Second Life free from Parkinson’s and other impairments

Technology Is Part of Life – and Art

Beall Center exhibit showcases the few constraints of ‘expanded media arts’ and how the field intertwines with the human experience