Robert Kubey talks about how media literacy needs to be stressed in the United States education system and why we should be skeptics about the media we consume on a daily basis. Dr. Kubey is professor of Journalism and Media Studies, and director of the Center for Media Studies at Rutgers...
Regina Marchi talks about how marginalized communities and social justice movements are portrayed in the main stream media, as well as her research into Chicano and Latino artists and educators use different forms of media to express political issues. Regina Marchi is Assistant Professor in the...
Nitin Madnani speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/9/11 Abstract: It may be obvious that building a good statistical machine translation (SMT) system requires a lot of bilingual training data. However, what may not be obvious is that the...
Sharad Goel speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 11/16/11 Abstract: With the increasing availability of network and behavioral data---from what we buy, to where we travel, to whom we know---we are now able to observe and quantify social processes...
Gilad Lotan speaking at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University on 1/25/12 Abstract: Being heard isn't so easy in an age when anyone can become a broadcaster. When attention is a scarce commodity, true power lies in understanding how information flows within...
