Research Events

Supporting Mental Health Among Autistic Youth in the Digital Age with Meryl Alper, Northeastern University.

Emergent Network Organizing in Rural Ethiopian Communities with Seungyoon Lee, Ph.D.

Join us for a screening of Crossings (2021), a film documenting a group of international women peacemakers on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to call for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.

The Union for Democratic Communications Steering Committee is thrilled to announce that our 2023 conference will be held in Philadelphia from October 12-15, 2023.  The conference will be hosted by the Media, Inequality, and Change (MIC) Center, a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information.

Dr. Danielle Pillet-Shore, University of New Hampshire, will present a talk during the Ph.D. Colloquia.

Mark your calendar for the first talk of the NetSCI Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Dr. Marlon Twyman from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Conceptualizing and Measuring Symptom Invalidation as Experienced by Patients with Endometriosis by Dr. Allyson Bontempo, SC&I Dissertation Presentation.

The talk by distinguished professor David Lazer, Northeastern University will offer insights into digital news ecosystems and new ways of studying how people interact with information.

The event will take place from 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm in Room 222 in the main SC&I building.

Early-onset cancer patients and survivors have unique needs in comparison to their older counterparts and so often turn to social media to find others with similar experiences. This presentation reports on a study which used reflexive qualitative interviews to understand the unique needs of early-onset cancer patients and caregivers as they engage with digital communities related to their illness.