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Austin Lecture 2017: Social Workers Need to Understand Impact of Cyber-interaction on Adolescents

The future of social work embraces technology and uses it as a tool to better engage with and understand young clients.

Graduate Student News

Forbush Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Forbush will receive three years of funding to conduct individual research.

Research

How Your Brain Makes Articles Go Viral

Why do some articles spread and others don’t? How does your brain decide what to read and share?

Graduate Student News

Maris and Shapiro Awarded Internships with Microsoft Research Labs

Maris will intern with the Social Media Collective, and Shapiro with the Society, Ethics and AI working group.

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#QIS2: The Second Queer Internet Studies Symposium Held at Penn

Co-organized by Jessa Lingel, #QIS2 was a space to envision what Queer Internet Studies might look like.

Faculty News

Jessa Lingel Awarded Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies

A former librarian, Lingel is looking forward to studying the online marketplace Craigslist at the largest library in the world.

Alumni

Alumna Q&A: Eileen Le Han (Ph.D. '14) On Her New Book, Micro-blogging Memories

Han's book looks at the past and present of the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.

Faculty News

Q&A With Dr. Desmond Patton

Dr. Desmond Patton tells us about how he uses social media to study inner city violence and what sparked his interest in the work.

Call for Abstracts: ICA Preconference on Varieties of Publics and Counterpublics

This preconference aims to reinvigorate scholarly debates about publics and public spheres and their implications for democratic politics.

Research

Want To Exercise More? Get Yourself Some Competition.

In a new study, competition proved a far stronger motivation for exercise than friendly support.