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A new study by Assistant Professor Sarah Shugars explores how the misgendering of online users in scholarly work can have significant down-stream impacts on questions of online gender disparities. For example, across their analyses Shugars et al. found that nonbinary users and others – both cisgender and transgender – who don’t perform their gender in a cis-normative way are systematically undercounted and frequently misgendered.

Hailing from Drexel University, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, the three new faculty members will join the Library and Information Science Department.

By Evie Duvert, Rutgers University Communications

Nadirah Simmons spent many hours of her childhood immersed in '90s and 2000s hip-hop culture that years later would become the inspiration for her first book.  

Through this program, SC&I faculty members and their Rutgers collaborators are exploring how new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), AI, and ML can transform healthcare and health communication to improve health organization-level outcomes for patients and healthcare professionals and mitigate related health inequities.

The seasoned journalist and Grammy Award-winning music producer has high hopes for Rutgers University's storytellers.

Through this project, led by Library and Information Science faculty member Shagun Jhaver, he and his team will investigate how users make sense of flagging, what information they seek, and how they navigate flagging interfaces.