CIP’s Kate Starbird examines complementary roles of social and hyper-partisan media
In a “data memo” recently published on Medium, Kate Starbird, a University of Washington Center for an Informed Public (CIP) principal investigator and associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, detailed how social media and...
CIP’s Jevin West and Kate Starbird kick off ‘Coexisting With COVID-19’ discussion series
Jevin West and Kate Starbird, both principal investigators at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, recently helped kick off a special UW Graduate School Public Lectures discussion series titled “Coexisting With COVID-19.” The May 7 discussion,...
CIP researchers: Contact-tracing apps could create false sense of safety and become vectors for disinformation
While the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on contact-tracing mobile phone apps as tools to help contain the spread of coronavirus, two University of Washington professors affiliated with the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) have cautioned that the...
CIP names first group of affiliate researchers
The Center for an Informed Public (CIP) at the University of Washington has announced its first cohort of affiliate researchers. These faculty and research scientists bring a variety of perspectives from across the UW, adding to the interdisciplinary depth and...