Research stories
- Two CMCI professors took part in a community roundtable to explore how we can stay good neighbors amid intense polarization.
- Without access to social media data, disinformation and hate speech may get easier to spread—and harder to detect.
- Incoming professors bring an interest in cutting-edge topics at a time when the media landscape is undergoing dramatic change.
- A creator and scholar says a much-hated Apple ad is standing in for a larger conversation about how tech companies build and deploy A.I.
- Licensing deals OpenAI signed with The Atlantic and Vox Media have CMCI experts asking questions.
- Following years of high-profile shootings, Chris Vargo expected to find rising public salience around gun control. He didn’t.
- A CMCI graduate’s working-class upbringing has given her a unique perspective on tech, wage theft and exploitation, which she’s bringing to an Ivy League doctoral program.
- Researcher’s experience in advertising, marketing and PR gives her a unique angle to study organizational communications and policy around climate impact and awareness.
- Harsha Gangadharbatla loves the challenge of inspiring students who sit in the last row of the lecture hall. His attention to his craft and his classes led to a prestigious teaching award from the American Academy of Advertising last month.
- A new book from Nathan Schneider argues that attempts to impose democracy on the internet have failed for cultural and technical reasons. But what if we used it as a tool to solve these problems?