Past Events
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Feb. 18, 2020, 1:15 to 2:30 p.m.
User-generated content circulates through and beyond social media, becoming part of a global information ecosystem. But there are gaps between the ways we as users think it moves, how social companies tell us it moves, and how it actually moves.
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Feb. 18, 2020, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Come by to learn about Favor Headquarters careers!
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Feb. 14, 2020, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Come by to polish your interview skills with the Career Development Office!
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Feb. 13, 2020, 9 to 10:30 a.m.
In this talk, I will discuss how our social computing systems are being used to intentionally spread misleading information and what we — as researchers, educators and designers — might do to address this.
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Feb. 11, 2020, 1:15 to 2:30 p.m.
In this talk, I will show how users attempt to adapt to platforms in the context of online self-presentation behavior by forming folk theories, or informal and quasi-causal theories of what platforms are and how they operate which guide user decision making.
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Feb. 7, 2020, 4 to 6 p.m.
Join us to hear from alumni working in archives, records management, libraries, & taxonomy! Nibbles from Central Market will be provided!
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Feb. 6, 2020, 11 a.m. to noon
Join us to learn about the various career opportunities including intelligence analyst, cyber security analyst, data engineer, data scientist, app developer, software engineer, operations officer, technical researcher.
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Feb. 6, 2020, 9 to 10:15 a.m.
ABSTRACT: In 2018-9, Facebook’s user base grew by nearly 10%: the bulk of this growth was in countries of the Global South, each with complex socio-political arrangements, many in the midst of or recovering from war or other forms of conflict. The social impacts emerging from the rapid growth of such transnational digital platforms are often ambivalent.
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Feb. 4, 2020, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Join us to hear about various data-related career opportunities at Micron Technology. Lunch kindly provided by Micron!