UCI Podcast: If you can’t pay attention, you’re not alone
Gloria Mark explains why we’re distracted and how to fight it
May 05, 2023
KEYWORD
social media
An early warning system for future pandemics?
Researchers hunt for tipoffs in social media and public data
November 07, 2022
UCI Podcast: Elon Musk, Twitter and free speech
David Kaye discusses Musk’s buyout of the social media giant and human rights issues of online speech
April 25, 2022
Coronavirus Twitter map developed at UCI displays social media reactions to COVID-19
To give the public a sense of how social media conversations about COVID-19 are happening in real time, UCI computer scientists have developed and launched a coronavirus Twitter map. The interactive resource visualizes the spatial and temporal distribution of tweets related to the pandemic, allowing users to view the growth and transformation of social media […]
April 08, 2020
Anxiety after 2018 false missile alert in Hawaii lingered for days, UCI researchers find
Big data study is first to capture real-time psychological responses to false alarm
July 25, 2019
A fresh look at free speech
UC conference on topical issue inspires students, such as UCI’s Henry Glitz
April 08, 2019
UCI-led study finds Harry Potter fan fiction challenges cultural stereotypes of autism
Digital media platforms enable marginalized groups to offer alternative representations
January 23, 2019
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 […]
August 02, 2018
