Jun 30, 2021 | News, Updates
The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public this week announced a new $1 million gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to support the multidisciplinary research center’s rapid-response research of election-related mis- and disinformation. “The CIP...
Jun 28, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
A Vietnamese-language version of this blog post is available here: Tiếng Việt In January, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public announced a new research project “Sending News Back Home: Analyzing the Spread of Misinformation between Vietnam and...
Jun 8, 2021 | CIP Award for Excellence, News, Updates
A low-key, behind-the-scenes networked response to mis- and disinformation about the 2020 U.S. Census serves as a model for future multi-stakeholder collaborations. Mis- and disinformation is a networked problem, yet there are few demonstrations of a networked...
Jun 2, 2021 | News, Updates
During the University of Washington Information School’s recent Capstone 2021, where soon-to-graduate iSchool students presented projects where they applied skills and lessons from their coursework to solve a real-world information problem, often in partnership with a...
May 26, 2021 | Events, News, Uncategorized, Updates
By Vera Burgos On May 13, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public and Tech Policy Lab co-hosted a virtual book talk featuring Kate Crawford, a leading scholar studying the social implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and author of the...
May 26, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Uncategorized, Updates
By Michael Grass During a May 4 keynote presentation at a virtual conference hosted by the George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, Kate Starbird, a University of Washington Center for an Informed Public cofounder and Human Centered...
