From The Washington Post to Channels TV in Nigeria, people were eager to talk about how the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and schools like Indiana University will assess the impact of technology on democracy and improve media literacy. The news of the Knight Foundation’s $50 million total commitment to IU and other… Read more »
Entries by Stephanie Hernandez McGavin
Filipi Silva Q&A: research scientist brings network visualization expertise to IUNI
Filipi N. Silva is the latest addition to the IUNI team, joining us last month as an assistant research scientist. Silva first came to Indiana University Bloomington back in 2017, when he visited IU as a visiting scholar for a week. At the time, Silva was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo,… Read more »
IUNI continues OSoMe collaboration with new research center
It has been a long and lively ride with the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe). That’s why IUNI is so excited to remain a crucial collaborator in OSoMe’s expansion into a research center at Indiana University Bloomington. OSoMe was awarded $6 million to create the research center, which expands on the current project and will… Read more »
NSF supports new cycle of funding for IU’s role in Midwest Big Data Hub
BLOOMINGTON—The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced earlier this month it would award nearly $4 million of support for the Midwest Big Data Hub, one of four regional Big Data Hubs across the U.S. This is NSF’s second round of funding for The Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH), a network of cross-sector partnerships working to manage… Read more »
IU faculty find Mexican immigrants rely on networks for oral health issues, win award
A study by Indiana University that shows Mexican-American immigrants’ dependence on networks in the face of oral health issues won the 2019 Giddon Award for Distinguished Research. The Giddon Award, presented by The International Association for Dental Research, recognizes a single research publication annually from the social and behavioral sciences that contributes to the field… Read more »