Scholars at the School of Communication and Information take an interdisciplinary approach to research that spans the fields of information science, library studies, communication, journalism and media studies.
Lee, a faculty member at Korea University, is an expert in mediated communication and organizational communication network research.
Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation will develop a clearinghouse of the latest innovations in bridge safety that incorporates artificial intelligence technology.
A new study by Rutgers SC&I Associate Professor Caitlin Petre and Ph.D. Candidate Nicole Weber explores how understanding the evolution of book sellers, supermarkets, and public libraries as purveyors of public information can help inform current thinking about social media platforms.
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.
SC&I Professor of Communication Jennifer A. Theiss has been awarded the 2023 Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication from the National Communication Association (NCA).
A recent study by SC&I Ph.D. Candidate Shravan Regret Iyer explores the role of VR in twelve United Nations Virtual Reality (UNVR) content productions.
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.
Projects created by seven MI students and graduates, who are recipients of the Beverly E. Schoen Research Fellowship, were presented at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference in Atlantic City in December.
The award-winning, NSF-funded paper focused on the creation of a privacy- preserving dashboard to track COVID cases across the U.S.
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.
