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University of Michigan School of Information faculty and PhD students are creating and sharing knowledge that helps build a better world. Here are some of their recent publications. 

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An archival World Turns: Armenian women's archives in Southeast Michigan. Nazelie Doghramadjian, UMSI PhD student. Patricia Garcia, associate professor of information. Ricky Punzalan, associate professor of information.

Archival silences and the role of Armenian women as memory-keepers in Southeast Michigan

01/15/2025

New work by UMSI PhD student Nazelie Doghramadjian and associate professors Patricia Garcia and Ricky Punzalan examines how Armenian women serve as “stewards of personal, family and community records” for their community. 

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Study: Wellness influencers on Twitter more likely to oppose COVID-19 vaccination

12/23/2024

A new study by UMSI lecturer Elle O’Brien and assistant professor Paramveer Dhillon reveals that wellness influencers show higher rates of vaccine opposition on social media than other accounts. 

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A depressed person alone in their room sitting on their bed with a blanket over their head.

Study of COVID-19 deaths challenges claims, understanding of pandemic-era suicides

12/17/2024

Narratives behind numbers point to need for better coordination, support by employers, communities, public health leaders in future crises, especially mental health

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UMSI Research Roundup. Virtual Reality. Health Insurance. Screenshots. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Virtual Reality | Health Insurance | Screenshots: UMSI Research Roundup

12/03/2024

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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UMSI research roundup. 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

UMSI at CSCW 2024: Awards, Workshops and Papers

11/08/2024

UMSI research and workshops for the 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). 

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UMSI research roundup. UMSI researchers at the 2024 EMNLP & AMIA conferences. Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students.

EMNLP and AMIA 2024: UMSI Research Roundup

11/08/2024

UMSI research and workshops for the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, as well as the 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium. 

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UMSI Research. Protecting Private Communications through Law and Policy: The Case of the Screenshot Feature. Alexis Shore Ingber, Research Fellow.

Study: Screenshots pose a “threat to both intimate and intellectual privacy”

11/06/2024

In a new paper, UMSI postdoctoral research fellow Alexis Shore Ingber examines the privacy implications of the screenshot feature on digital communications. 

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UMSI Research. Misfitting with AI: How Blind People Verify and Contest AI Errors. Rahaf Alharbi,. PhD Candidate. Sarita Shoenebeck, Professor. Robin Brewer, Assistant Professor.

Disability centered conversations are often overlooked in the field of artificial intelligence

10/30/2024

New research by UMSI researchers highlights how blind people access AI technologies and navigate errors.  

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UMSI Research. Wikipedia in Wartime: Experiences of Wikipedians Maintaining Articles About the Russia-Ukraine War. Laura Kurek, UMSI PhD student. Ceren Budak, Associate Professor of Information. Eric Gilbert, professor of information.

Study: Wikipedia largely resilient to misinformation surrounding the Russia-Ukraine War

10/28/2024

Wikipedia appears to be adept at maintaining high quality encyclopedia articles during ongoing, geopolitical conflicts, a new study by UMSI researchers shows. 

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UMSI research roundup. UMSI researchers at the 2024 ASIS&T & ASSETS conferences. Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students.

2024 ASIS&T and ASSETS conferences: UMSI Research Roundup

10/22/2024

UMSI research and workshops for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, as well as the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. 

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