information science

Data dump: Meta killed CrowdTangle. What does it mean for researchers, reporters?

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:54:54 +0000

Data dump: Meta killed CrowdTangle. What does it mean for researchers, reporters? Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/23/2024 - 11:54

By Joe Arney

In Brian C. Keegan’s telling, the loss of tools like CrowdTangle and Pushshift—which allow researchers to study user behavior and how information is shared on social media—is like particle physicists one day waking up to find out they can no longer access the Large Hadron Collider.

“I have grad students interested in how online extremism works, the consequences of political polarization, whether content moderation is actually effective at stopping hate speech,” said Keegan, an assistant professor of information science at the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. “To be able to understand questions like these requires access to data from these platforms—and restricting it imperils our ability to be impactful in our work.”

Earlier this month, Meta announced it was shutting down CrowdTangle, one of the most effective tools for understanding how Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms work and how disinformation is created and spread on the company’s platforms.

That’s a blow to researchers, watchdogs and journalists who will be less able to track how disinformation, hate speech and other poisons pollute the social media atmosphere—but in the context of business decisions, there are strong financial and reputational benefits to obfuscating its operations. Not only is the platform sitting on mountains of data that can be licensed to companies building models to train generative artificial intelligence, Keegan said, “it’s easy to imagine a world where Meta doesn’t want its name attached to a paper about how neo-Nazis are using Facebook groups to organize themselves.”

The economic case for ‘privacy washing’

“The loss of these data tools imperils our ability to do that kind of scholarship and is ultimately a detriment to democracy and civic institutions.”
Brian C. Keegan, assistant professor, information science

It’s becoming a more common story, as platforms that once made their data public are increasingly erecting paywalls, blocking APIs or cutting deals with A.I. companies. Often, those platforms mask their motivations behind what Keegan calls “privacy washing,” citing concerns about safeguarding user data in justifying the removal of key features for research labs, newsrooms and the public.

This particular example comes at an inauspicious time, with digital disinformation ratcheting up ahead of Election Day and more Americans than ever getting their news from social media.

“To address the challenges we’re up against, that are happening in real time, that we see journalists trying to grapple with, requires different models of publicly engaged scholarship, beyond just academic papers that take a year or two to publish,” Keegan said. “The loss of these data tools imperils our ability to do that kind of scholarship and is ultimately a detriment to democracy and civic institutions.”

It’s not just the media or public at large that are affected. When these tools are taken offline, it hurts the quality of the online communities, as well. Keegan has volunteered as a moderator on Reddit, and said PushShift—which Reddit limited access to beginning last summer—was vital to forming context about user behavior that could determine whether someone was having a bad day, or whether that person was truly a bad actor.

Classroom impact

That’s a challenge as a moderator, but it’s having a bigger impact on his professional life, both as a researcher and teacher. He can use case studies from the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle to show how fake news circulated, and the role of actors like Cambridge Analytica, “but that data and those strategies are now eight years old, and those contexts no longer exist—we’re in a different world now,” Keegan said. “Can we prepare our students to be better engineers, managers, artists and citizens with such old case studies?”

Meta purchased Crowdtangle in 2016, and Keegan acknowledged that the tech platform isn’t required to make its data publicly available. “But researchers have built our careers, infrastructure and programs on assumptions that we’d have access to these tools, so to have that rug pulled from under us has been profoundly disruptive to our ability to provide transparency, engage and ask critical questions,” he said.

Keegan hopes to learn more through a grant he’s pursuing from the National Science Foundation. If awarded, he hopes to study the consequences of actions like Meta’s in the scientific research community.

“When that data disappears, how does that impact scholarship?” he asked. “Can we measure how research methods changing, the way we collaborate, the strategies we’ll need to develop to make sure we’re able to ask critical questions?”

Without access to social media data, disinformation and hate speech may get easier to spread—and harder to detect.

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Class acts: CMCI’s new faculty bring new ideas on A.I., identity, culture to Boulder

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:16:32 +0000

Class acts: CMCI’s new faculty bring new ideas on A.I., identity, culture to Boulder Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 14:16

By Joe Arney
Photo by Kimberly Coffin (CritMedia, StratComm'18)

When asked why they choose the University of Colorado Boulder, students and faculty alike tend to cite its location, along with academic prestige, research successes and access to opportunity.

That was a big draw for Joe Izaguirre III, as well. But it wasn’t the mountains he had in mind when he signed on as an assistant professor of communication at the College of Media, Communication and Information.

Izaguirre studies how political power influences Latin identities from the lens of public rhetoric and rhetorical histories. Plenty of the source material for his book includes texts produced by activists who lived in the Colorado area.

“I hadn’t thought of this, but I’ll be able to hand-deliver the book to families who participated, instead of just dropping it in the mail,” he said. “It feels like an opportunity to have a more personal connection to the things I’ve been studying.”

Izaguirre is among the seven new tenure-track faculty joining CMCI this fall. The college also is welcoming seven nontenure-track faculty, including new appointments for professors who previously held different roles.

“I’m so excited to welcome our new faculty to CMCI,” said Lori Bergen, founding dean of the college. “As the media, communication, design and information landscape continues to dramatically change, the new perspectives these professors bring will ensure our students get a cutting-edge, immediately applicable education.”

“It was a great experience, as an instructor, to be able to work with students who were that interested in learning and participating.”
Dinfin K. Mulupi, assistant professor, journalism

Design thinking

For the first time, this year’s incoming cohort includes faculty from the environmental design program, which formally integrated with CMCI over the summer. Though there are no changes for current students, faculty in the program are enthusiastic about the chance to collaborate with colleagues eager to explore new applications for their work.

Martín Paddack, a teaching associate professor who joins CMCI and ENVD following seven years at Howard University, has a wealth of interests around architecture and sustainability, including participatory design—“understanding how we identify where there is need and trying to create connections with community for design.”

“I always try to inculcate into students that it’s not about coming up with an idea and saying, here’s the answer,” said Paddack, who also is founder and principal of the Washington, D.C.-based DesignMAP firm. “It comes down to communication—asking the right questions and really listening so you can identify where the needs are. If you are prescriptive, and don’t listen to your community, that’s when design starts to fail.”

Paddack brings a diverse set of interests—architecture, sustainability, social responsibility, writing, painting, woodworking—to the classroom, as well as a global perspective: He was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Peru and Uruguay before moving to D.C. as a boy. He also taught in South America and completed a painting residency in Barcelona. He helped set up a fabrication lab at Howard to ensure students developed both practical architecture experience.

“That’s something I really like about environmental design at ��Ƶ—the focus on how we can apply sustainable principles across four different areas, and an emphasis on doing hands-on fabrication so that students learn the theory, but also how to apply it,” he said.

‘Great experience’ connecting with students

Most new faculty who join CMCI say they feel an instant rapport with professors in their departments, which makes the college feel like home well before they start. That was true for Dinfin K. Mulupi, as well, but she felt an equally strong connection to the journalism students she taught as part of the interview process.

“I was fascinated by their interest in learning the research behind journalism practices,” said Mulupi, a native of Kenya who came to CMCI via the PhD program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

A discussion she led critiquing news coverage of immigration, Mulupi said, sparked so much insightful discussion that she felt bad moving on to the next topic.

“It was a great experience, as an instructor, to be able to work with students who were that interested in learning and participating,” she said. “When you’re a professor, you are creating knowledge with your students, and they were so attentive and involved that I know it will be a privilege to teach them.”

Mulupi’s research looks at sexism and sexual harassment in newsrooms, and came from working on her thesis as the #MeToo movement gained momentum. She was among the first scholars to explore the topic in Kenyan newsrooms; her work has since expanded to more than 20 countries.

It’s an important topic at a time when the news industry is contracting, as “when you have a newsroom culture with sexism, harassment, racism and bigotry, you lose talented journalists who don’t feel safe and included,” she said. “I am also focusing on solutions, especially exploring how we can build safer, more inclusive newsrooms that produce news content that serves the diverse needs and interests of a wider audience.”

Pooja Iyer, who joined CMCI from the University of Texas Austin, where she completed her doctoral work in the spring. She’s also doing timely work, researching the ethics around how advertising firms collect and use data in the course of connecting to consumers.

“In my industry days, I realized my own cognitive dissonance—asking how granular we could get on a target audience while having ad blockers on my computer,” said Iyer, an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design. “I believe the advertising world can play a more ethical role in how and why they’re using data, and how they’re protecting customers—because there isn’t enough literacy around this.”

It’s something her student will need to consider as they graduate, she said.

“Whether you’re in creative, account management, media planning, it doesn’t matter—you will be working with data,” Iyer said. “So, how can we best empower you to be ethical about the use of that data? As educators, that really needs to be front and center for our students.”

Incoming professors bring an interest in cutting-edge topics at a time when the media landscape is undergoing dramatic change.

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Class of 2024: Inspired by our graduates

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:05:01 +0000

Class of 2024: Inspired by our graduates Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/12/2024 - 15:05

The Class of 2024 overcame unique challenges when they arrived in Boulder. In this issue, we celebrate their successes.

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CMCI Now: #ComputeHer

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:38:52 +0000

CMCI Now: #ComputeHer Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/12/2024 - 14:38

A PhD graduate’s ethical takes on tech have landed her at Google, where she hopes to shape conversations about shaping the digital world for users.

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Open(AI) and shut: What ChatGPT deals with media outlets mean for the future of news

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:57:13 +0000

Open(AI) and shut: What ChatGPT deals with media outlets mean for the future of news Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 06/07/2024 - 13:57

By Joe Arney
Photo of Patrick Ferrucci, below, by Kimberly Coffin (CritMedia, StratComm’18)

Patrick Ferrucci has seen this movie before.

A former reporter and current chair of the journalism department at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information, Ferrucci studies the institutions, businesses and technologies that are rapidly reshaping the discipline.

So when he learned The Atlantic and Vox Media agreed last week to license their journalism to ChatGPT creator OpenAI, he thought back to agreements traditional publishers once signed with Facebook, Google and Twitter—deals that augmented audiences while wrecking revenue.

“I don’t get it,” he said.

“Maybe they see a monetary infusion at what’s undeniably a difficult financial time for the media. But we’ve seen this before, and each time, that financial infusion doesn’t benefit the actual journalism.”

ChatGPT was hailed as a breakthrough when it arrived in the winter of 2022, able to respond to questions and create content that was seen as a value add for businesses and individuals. Some of the shine has since worn off as creators and artists have accused the company of stealing their work to train the chatbot to write more convincingly—the large-language models ChatGPT are trained on enormous amounts of data that come from novelists, poets, journalists, even regular users of social media platforms who post content and comments.

“We’ve seen this before, and each time, that financial infusion doesn’t benefit the actual journalism.”
Patrick Ferrucci, chair, journalism

While he criticized the short-term benefits at the potential cost of long-term viability, Ferrucci said there could be other advantages for media companies that sign up with OpenAI.

“It could allow the journalism industry to get an understanding of what those tools can do,” he said. “And if they get a head start with those tools, and learn to implement them into their processes early on, it will give them a leg up on companies that fought against it.”

A different tactic: See you in court

Representing those companies fighting against it is The New York Times, which last year sued OpenAI after changing its terms of service to prevent A.I. systems from scraping its work. At the time, Robin Burke, a professor of information science at CMCI, called ChatGPT’s honeymoon period “a free ride, because nobody was paying attention to what they were doing. Now, I think it makes sense that the organizations producing content are thinking, ‘Do I really agree with this as a usage of my work?’”

It’s a fair question, but Ferrucci said he expects we’ll see more deals like this going forward.

“There are companies that can do investigative journalism because it doesn’t matter if you sue them,” he said. “And there are others who essentially self-censor because the threat of a lawsuit, no matter how frivolous, could destroy the business. If you show these news companies some money, I don’t think all of them can afford to look away.”

Casey Fiesler, an associate professor of information science at CMCI and an expert in ethical and legal issues surrounding technology, said of all the copyright suits against OpenAI, the Times may have the most compelling case, since the paper was able to show examples where ChatGPT appeared to respond to user prompts with copyrighted material from the newspaper.

But for her, the most interesting issue isn’t copyright.

“I think the more profound thing is this idea that you used my work to build a technology that will replace me,” she said. “That’s why so many people are upset. It feels like a violation—you’re using my art to build this technology so that you don’t have to pay artists anymore.”

Licensing deals OpenAI signed with The Atlantic and Vox Media have CMCI experts asking questions.

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Announcing the spring 2024 dean's list

Anonymous — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:27:13 +0000

Announcing the spring 2024 dean's list Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/24/2024 - 15:27

CMCI students who have completed at least 12 credit hours of ��Ƶ Boulder course work for a letter grade in any single semester and achieve a term grade point average of 3.75 or better are included on the dean’s list. They receive a notation on their transcript and a letter from CMCI Founding Dean Lori Bergen. Congratulations to all honorees!

Matt Abatangle
Alysia Abbas
Alyssa Abbate
Kristin Adams
Simrita Advani
Sana AlJobory
Sophie Allaway
Kay Louise Altshuler
Jessica Amend
Lisa An
Alexandra Anaya
Bridgette Anderson
Josh Archie
CJ Armitage
Bella Arney
Cole Arnot
Zion Atwater
Keara Aughney
Brooke Aulerich
Lisbeth Avalos-Parra
Niles Ayer
Mason Bailey
Meredith Baker
Noa Baker-Durante
Kathryn Ballode
Emilie Barbattini
Blake Barnes
Emily Barnes
Emalee Barr
Emma Barry
Jenna Barsocchini
Maddy Barth
Ellena Bassoukos
Taylor Beamer
Kayla Beebower
Haya Ben Essa
Jane Bengston
Eddie Benjamin
Charlie Bennett
Kayla Bennett
Madelyn Bennett
Aspen Christina Bentley
Tommy Berman
Tony Beum
Adrianna Bhan
Teak Biaggi
Tommy Bittner
Logan Blackburn
Grace Blitz
Jess Boehner
Cassidy Boldvich
Patrick Boley
Anvitha Bompalli
Elena Bonner
Brooke Bonynge
Sophia Books
Jack Boruchov
Abby Boutrous
Grant Bowditch
Elijah Boykoff
Marisa Bracke
Ben Brechtel
Beth Brechtel
Hannah Brennan
Audrey Brice
Bailey Brown
Courtney Brown
Benjamin Browning
McKenna Bryant
Renee Buchenroth
Mia Buchholz
Annilise Burgess
Eric Burns
Grace Burns
Parker Burt
Gabbie Burton
Madeline Byerly
Noelia Caballero
Cam Cahoon
Victoria Calton
Isabelle Calvanese
Lourdes Camarillo
Mackenzie Campbell
Bianca Cano
Alyx Carifa
Sarah Carleo
Jessie Carlin
Mitchell Carswell
Quinn Cassell
Mia Castro
Sofia Cecchini
Zachary Chagnon
Natanya Chatfield
Ryan Chilson
Rachel Choi
Matthew Cicero
Emma Clary
Emme Clymer
Raphael Coelho
MacKenzie Cole
Sydney Coleman
Sophia Collins
Natalie Coniglio
Gabriella Connell
Scott Connor
Olivia Conrad
Breah Conradson
Diego Cordero
Kyndal Corkins
Ainsley Cox
Lily Cox
Bailey Craig
Elise Crall
Curtis Croll
Gavin Crowson
Charlotte Croy
Eryn Cryer
Kat Culpepper
Lilly Curry
Liz Cutting
Ella Elisabeth D'Orazio
Lacey Daniell
Hannah David
Katherine Davis
Sasha Davison
Alex DeMartine
Madison DeSimone
Eric Deuchar
Kelley Deveny
Zach Dial
Jacob Dilling
Jack Dobson
Campbell Dokken
Connie Dolati
Ally Doll
Lexi Dolsak
Reeve Donner
Sydney Dossa
Wylie Douglas
Daniel Doupe
Averie Dow
Lucas Drager
Noah Drewes
Michael Drozd
Paris Dunlavey
Hannah Duthie
Ansley Edelbrock
Lily Edwards
Camryn Eickenberg
Jenny Ellis
Josie Elowsky
Lucy Esquivel
Lily Estes
Jack Evans
Morgan Evans
Elena Exenberger
Conor Farah
Gavin Faulkner
Trent Finnegan
Elena Fisher
Alexys Fitz
Max Fitzloff
Daisy Flakus
Lily Fletcher
Katie Ford
Emma Fraser
Lyla Fruehstorfer
Alexia Funk
Roxy Fusco
Evanie Gamble
Bailee Gammel
Ruby Gara
Katelyn Gardner
Stephanie Gauval
Nicole Geary
Audrey Geer
Kiara Gelbman
Piper George
Ellie Gianola
Bobby Gibbons
Tegan Gie
Lauren Gillespie
Ryan Giordano
Gianna Girardi
Lily Goldstein
Max Gong
Lauren Gooding
Maxx Goodman
Richard Gorman
Ashley Gosch
Cj Grandi
Lilly Gray
Mia Graziano
McKenna Green
Eli Gregorski
Satori Griffith
Will Griffiths
Sarah Grim
Eli Grimm
Will Guanci
Jack Guerena
Beth Gurgel
Nate Habteyonas
Victoria Hall
Hannah Hamilton
Norah Hampford
Nate Hankins
Zoë Hannan
J.T. Harland
Wilson Harper
Maeve Harrington
Ella Harris
Sabrina Harris
Alex Hartman
Nick Haseman
Wessam Hassan
Oda Haugen
Sophie Hayes
Madison Hays
Stevie Hemans
Will Henrickson
Kate Herigon
Amanda Hetland
Shannon Ho
Sophie Hodgson
Hannah Hoffman
Jason Hoffman
Will Holmsen
Tatum Hood
Taylar Houck
Donavon Houston
Owen Houtakker
Jordan Houten
Caleb Hoversten
Ava Howe
Samantha Hruska
Mary Ryan Huerter
Wyatt Humble
Eric Huynh
Reese Illston
Jacob Ivener
Lauryn Iverson
Caroline Jackson
Anna Jacob
Max Jacobs
Reed Jacobs
Bri Jaramillo
Hannah Jemsek
Alana Jenks
Aaron Jensen
Keely Jester
Sofie Jimenez
Mia Jochamowitz-Endersby Chikhani
Andy Johnson
Hayley Johnson
Nick Johnson
Skye Johnson
Liv Johnstad
Neda Jonaitis
Eve Jones
Gianna Jordon
Marina Juboori
Max Julian
Lizzie Kalt
Chase Kanger
Jake Karp
Bailey Karraker
Peri Kay
Rhett Kaya
Grace Keating
Emily Keely
Samantha Keenan
Tre Kelly
Charlotte Kendall
Rowen Kennedy
John Kerklo
Jordan Kesner
Josh Kesner
Amy Kibort
Samson Kidane
James Kim
MacKenzie Kim
Julia Grace Kirk
Marin Kirkman
Ian Kligora
Ava Knopping
Mack Kolligian
Rian Korb
Frankie Kramer
Riley Krane
Ella Krelovich
Katie Krochalis
Oona Krukowski
Samuel Kurtz
David LaPaglia
Amy Labontu
Ruby Laemmel
Ella Landry
Sophia Landry
Luca Langella
Sarah Lawrence
Connor Leach
Juliette Leclercq
Emma Leek
Nicholas Leen
Claire Lemel
Bella Leon
Ava Leonard
Jake Levin
Taylor Levine
Claire Levitt
Jackson Lewis
Sydney Liebhauser
Kara Liguori
Keanna Limes
Kya Lini
Chris Lloyd
Leif Lomo
Kate Long
Skyler B. Longerbone
Courtney Loomis
Lauren Lopez
Linus Loughry
Janie Ludington
Julia Lyons
Julia Maclean
Emelia Mantz
Sophia Marshek
Jillian Martellaro
Stella Martens
Jackson Martin
Kendall Martin
Paula Martinez
Sofia Massignani
Jake May
Ainsley McComb
Maddy McManus
Shen Mcconnell
Monday Mccue
Katie Mcdonald
Quinn Mcdonough
Tanner Mcintosh
Emori Mcquigg
Sam Meldner
Alex Melvin
Gabby Mendoza
Courtney Mercer
Lindsay Mescall
Elena Mesker
Jackson Meyer
Olivia Meyers
Zoe Michael
Kristee Mikulski
Creed Miller
Hannah Miller
Mayce Miller
Ally Milton
Hallie Mitchell
Macy Mohlenkamp
Camryn Montgomery
Lilli Moon
Jack Mooney
Emily Moore
Nick Morrell
Carter Morris
Catherine Morse
Madison Moss
Emma Mostello
Hope Munoz-Stanley
Mackie Munsey
Brad Munson
Clare Murphy
Rue Murray
Jacob Myers
Liv Myers
Nick Myers
Sydney Myrick
Justin Naidrich
Aahana Nandy
Katharine Nanke
Henry Napientek
Becca Napier
Presley Nemecek
Hailey Newsum
Christine Nguyen
Sophia Nicolai
Dahlia Nin
Ella O'Brien
Maggie O'Brien
Rory O'Flynn
Naomi Ogren
Ivonne Olivas
Olivia Olshever
Karina Opalski
Annika Ort
Max Osterman
Alina Ouligian
Logan Paddock
Carmen Palmblad
Hazel Palmer
Aly Pardo
Emily Parker
Owen Passmore
Frankie Patton
Maya Paustenbaugh
Cate Pavolonis
Jaclyn Pereira
Bianca Perez
Amy Phillips
Rachel Pilik
Macy Place
Alex Plaut
Katharine Polep-Sawyer
Luca Pollara
Oliver Pollock
Elizabeth Pond
Kendall Poppie
Abbey Posey
Ellen Possehl
Bradley Pratt
Grace Ptak
Noor Rajpal
Mia Ramundo
Marissa Rauzi
Huston Rawls
Kuba Raymond
Jack Remington
Ella Revivo
Maddy Reynolds
Saxon Rhodes
Shaela Rhodes
Evan Jeffery Rice
Brooke Richards
Tessa Rieger
Kevin Rios
Rida Fatima Rizvi
Michael Robinson
Jaeda Rodriguez
Audrey Rolstad
Justice Rosen
Eli Rosenthal
Josh Rouland
Liam Rude
Bella Rulon
Reagan Russell
Sam Russo
Emme Rutherford
Kyle Ryan
Luke Ryan
Tanvi Sabharwal
Jessica Sachs
Joaquin Salinas
Luke Samiee
Eli Sanders
Annika Sandquist
Olivia Santangelo
Lydia Sarbacker
Emily Savitz
Maddie Schaaf
Jackson Schalow
Logan Schaper
Lucas Schiffman
Sophie Schnoll
Jaimie Schoenke
Tyler Scholl
Sydney Schrader
Emerson Schroeder
Erin Schwaninger
Andrew Schwartz
Rachel Scott
Olivia Scussel
Mayla Seliskar
Iris Serrano
Julia Sharkowicz
Shubham Sharma
Hannah Shaw
Jenna Shenbaum
Lindsay Shermeta
Amanda Sherter
Anika Siethoff
Olin Silverman
Aidan Sloan
Chloe Smith
Kyle Smith
Lucy Snow
Matt Solari
Lainey Sparks
Jaiden Spence
Jessie Spires
Matthew Spivack
Jacob Stanich
Lola Stanley
Ashlin Stasswender Swasey
Alexander Stein
Jack Stein
Braden Stirrett
Ava Stoller
Mary Strasser
Lucy Suja
Daniel Sullivan
Ben Sutter
Alec Sutula
Nic Tamayo
Sarah Taylor
Sage Thompson
Grace Thorburn
Julia Thorne
Leslie Tingley
Clio Torrance
Eliza Travelstead
Elizabeth Travia
Lauren Tucker
Taylor Tucker
Caroline Tuffy
Jazzy Tung
Ella Turgeon
Nolan Urgo
Jade Valentino
Jill Vallance
Karina Van Den Eeden
Celia Vargas
Alexia Vasilopoulos
Wyatt Vattano
Sally Vaughan
Branden Veale
Téa Villarreal
Lea Wadhams
Kylie Wagner
Jada Walker
Liam Walsh
Jessica Wang
Cameron Warchuck
Emma Ward
Luke Watson
Liam Watters
Anna Wert
Ally Whaley
Hayden Whitcomb
Emma White
Ella Whittall
Mark Whooley
Riley Wiener
Owen Wiggans
Jackson Williams
Rhys Williams
Nick Wilson
Holly Wininger
Emma Winkelbauer
Halle Wist
Trent Wobschall
James Wongsudin
Lily Wright
Sidney Yarnall
Chloe Yearous
Bradyn Yonaha
Elliot Young
Kristen Young
Lily Young-Stallings
Hannah Zafrani
Arwyn Zaleski
Emma Zande
John Zehner
Frank Zhang
Matt Zimmermann
Rachel Zing
Jack Ziporin
Cole Zucker

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Class of 2024: William W. White Honorees

Anonymous — Sun, 05 May 2024 07:28:09 +0000

Class of 2024: William W. White Honorees Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 05/05/2024 - 01:28

William W. White Outstanding Seniors are chosen by department faculty to recognize academic merit, professional achievement and service to the college. The Outstanding Graduate award honors the CMCI student with the highest overall GPA in their graduating class.

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Class of 2024: Andrew Schwartz

Anonymous — Sun, 05 May 2024 07:09:30 +0000

Class of 2024: Andrew Schwartz Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 05/05/2024 - 01:09

Before Andrew Schwartz knew he’d be an information science major, he had already attended a class. Now, he’s graduating—with a second major in philosophy—as the College of Media, Communication and Information's William W. White Outstanding Graduate.

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Class of 2024: Elijah Boykoff

Anonymous — Sun, 05 May 2024 07:00:23 +0000

Class of 2024: Elijah Boykoff Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 05/05/2024 - 01:00

Going into college, Elijah's goals for himself were to learn as much as he could and make it to the finish line. He says he's made good on those goals, and this award is an exciting bonus.

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CPR News: “Amidst seismic social media changes, making a new year’s resolution for your eyeballs”

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:02:12 +0000

CPR News: “Amidst seismic social media changes, making a new year’s resolution for your eyeballs” Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/29/2024 - 17:02

Featuring Brian Keegan, assistant professor in information science

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