August 2020 - News Articles

In “Organizing Inclusion,” a new book edited by Professor Marya Doerfel and former SC&I faculty member Jennifer Gibbs, the authors “challenge all of us to rethink our own role in perpetuating racist systems and how we can change that with both individual-level and structural changes.”

We released the summer 2020 edition of the SC&I newsletter and there are a number of important university and SC&I news items to share.

“It’s all about the ABCDs of remote learning: Assistance, Broadband Connectivity, and Devices,” said Katz, who conducts research with children growing up in low-income, working class and immigrant families and how they learn about and with new technology. “Students need all of those bases covered for distance learning to work.”

Mary Chayko Reappointed Honors College Faculty Fellow in Residence for 2020-2021,

A SC&I research team led by Assistant Professor Sunyoung Kim is working with the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey to develop a patient portal for leukemia patients. The system will enable clinicians to communicate treatment scenarios and outcomes to their patients in a less stressful way, and it will enable patients to investigate information about their illness autonomously.

Floegel, a SC&I Ph.D. candidate whose research interests focus on people's information creation practices, sociotechnical assemblages, and social justice in information institutions such as libraries, has been recognized by ASIS&T SIG SI as an emerging researcher in social informatics.

Support for returning to in-person classes varies by gender, ethnicity, political affiliation., and income.

What a summer for JMS major Lauren Boone. She is interning at NBC, in June she was named Captain of the Rutgers Women’s Swimming and Diving Team, and in July she was named a Scholar All American. Read how she manages her time, what she enjoys the most about her JMS classes, and her future aspirations.

Chris Doris is an IT professional with a product management and governance background who currently works for a major financial services firm. He graduated from Rutgers with a BA in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) in 2003 and will complete his Master of Information (MI) in January 2021.

The more stress college students experience, the more likely they are to share private, intimate details about their lives on Facebook. In new research by Assistant Professor J. Sophia Fu and her co-author Renwen Zhang of Northwestern University, they explore this behavior, and contend that technology companies need to play a greater role in preventing it.

Likelihood to embrace vaccination varies with age, political affiliation, education.

66% of likely voters support giving every American the right to vote by mail in November, a new survey finds.

Professor John Pavlik explains in a recently published paper how drones and other emerging technologies are enabling journalists to create increasingly exciting immersive journalism experiences for their audiences, and creating new challenges as well.