December 2020 - News Articles

In a chapter titled “Networked Street Life,” published in the new “Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media,” Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lane addresses a new area of ethnographic field research that “links the inequality concerns of urban sociologists and digital scholars who are studying inequality, and particularly digital inequality, in urban neighborhoods.”

Alumna Barbara Burton’s new book explores Westfield’s 300-year history, including events during the American Revolutionary War, the day in 1838 when the train arrived, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Renowned Handbook includes a chapter by Chayko on the practice of identity, and one by Paris on information, technology, and work.

SC&I Assistant Professor Katherine Ognyanova has published new survey data from The COVID States Project, which explores the economic hardships confronting Americans.

Cheryl Klimaszewski, Ph.D ’20 was awarded second place in the Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at ALISE for her dissertation research that combined aspects of autoethnography and visual data combined with textual and visual analysis to understand these homegrown, grassroots Romanian museums.

The list honors a select group of women who focus on advancing ethical standards for artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and whom, Paris said, “are doing good work to try to reign in, subvert, or abolish the tech industry as it stands, with the means we have available to us.”

A significant minority of Americans lack confidence in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election with more than one-third – primarily Republicans and Trump voters – not believing that the election results were fair, according to a nationwide survey by researchers from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Northeastern, Harvard and Northwestern universities.

Sonya Gande is a technology analyst at Bank of America. Six months before her graduation, she interviewed for her current position, was offered the job, and accepted it within a few days. She graduated in May 2020 and started at Bank of America that August.

The mission of journalism, Professor John Pavlik says, is the pursuit of truth and thereby hold the powerful accountable for their actions in every civil society. In a newly published paper Pavlik outlines ten core principles journalism educators and practitioners can follow to ensure success in the rapidly changing media industry.

Two Information Technology and Informatics students and one ITI alumnus are helping to bring an innovative COVID-19 detection app, with an underlying operating system designed to maintain both the user’s privacy and data ownership, to market.

A new study finds Americans are following social distancing guidelines less than they did in April.

Through the ITI Capstone course and then the Rutgers I-Corps program, a group of SC&I Information Technology and Informatics students developed an innovative vaping replacement tool and then conducted product research to help launch it.

The Rutgers University Marching Scarlet Knights are proud to announce that ten students will be performing in the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Intercollegiate Marching Band (IMB). They will join nearly 1,500 performers from 200 bands in 45 states and Puerto Rico, all working together to produce a virtual college marching band show.