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Taylor Carlson, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Social Science Research Council Social Data Research Fellowship to study the extent to which user-generated content (i.e. comments) on social media platforms distorts information reported by mainstream news outlets. The fellowship comes with a $50,000 award.
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Workshop participants G’Ra Asim, Nancy E. Berg, Todd Decker, and Julia A. Walker trade notes on each other's work in free-flowing feedback sessions, allowing them to see their subject matter from different perspectives.