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News 5 Dec 2017

Chelsea Manning Speaks at Penn on Technology, Government, and Activism

A former intelligence analyst, Manning is an advocate for government transparency and transgender rights.

Technology & Society

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Faculty News 2 Nov 2017

Is Social Media Surveillance the Virtual Stop-and-Frisk?

A new study by Desmond Patton develops a theory of everyday racism in digital policing.

Faculty News 10 Jul 2017

Pickard and Yang Edit New Book, Media Activism in the Digital Age

The book includes case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions.

Elisabetta Ferrari speaking, while making use of her hands, to an audience. She is sitting behind a desk. She wears a navy blue blouse, glasses, and a necklace

Graduate Student News 31 May 2017

Doctoral Student Elisabetta Ferrari Studies Activism and Technology

Ferrari researches how social movements use digital technologies, and how activists think about technology personally and politically.

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Faculty News 13 May 2017

Intervening in Gang Violence

Columbia's interdisciplinary research team is using language processing and qualitative analysis of social media posts to develop a mechanism to identify and intervene in gang violence.

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Faculty News 12 Apr 2017

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.

Stack of #QIS2 programs. The cover has a graphic background of slanted yellow, red, pink and teal parallelograms placed in disarray. Two light blue horizontal strips run across the top and bottom of the program. The top says "The Queer Internet Studies Workshop" and bottom "February 17, 2017, The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia". The middle is a large 'Q' in the same blue as strips.

News 22 Feb 2017

#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.

Culture & Media

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