UCI-led study finds Harry Potter fan fiction challenges cultural stereotypes of autism
Digital media platforms enable marginalized groups to offer alternative representations
Digital media platforms enable marginalized groups to offer alternative representations
First ‘active learning’ building in California opens at UCI
Possession, not use, of a mobile phone counteracts feelings of isolation, UCI-led study finds
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 […]
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 […]
Understanding the ‘weaponization’ of social media is the first step
Social ecologists probe positive, negative effects of digital technology
Anthropologist explores how avatars create a Second Life free from Parkinson’s and other impairments
Beall Center exhibit showcases the few constraints of ‘expanded media arts’ and how the field intertwines with the human experience