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Dr. Sayde Brais was invited to present at the inaugural CHESS SUCCESS Summit held on campus on November 5th. The theme of this year’s summit was “Successful Preparation for Uncertainty: The Importance of Experiential Learning to Successfully Prepare for Uncertain Careers in an Uncertain Future.” Dr. Brais presented two break-out sessions on the topic of […]

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Together with her “wonderful colleagues in Slovenia”, Dr. Bibi Reisdorf published an open-access, qualitative paper in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction entitled “Use-by-Proxy in Later Life: A Qualitative Study with Internet Users and Nonusers.” The paper examines how older internet users and non-users perceive proxy use, i.e., when someone else is using the internet […]

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Dr. Min Jiang was an invited speaker at the United Nations Development Programme Policy Center for Governance conference, “New Ways of Governing,” held in Oslo (Norway) on Oct 28-29, 2025. She provided remarks for the session on “Governing Data and AI”.

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Alumna, Megan Foster (MA, ‘20), visited the department on September 24th. She met with MA students for an informal pizza lunch to discuss her experience as a PhD student in the Department of Communication at UNC Chapel Hill. Afterwards, she joined Dr. Bibi Reisdorf’s class, COMM 6011: Special Topics in Communication Research Methods: Research with […]

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Dr. Bibi Reisdorf was invited to teach a Master Class on digital inequality and marginalized communities at the French symposium, “Numérique en Commun(s),” in Strasbourg in late October. The symposium brings together French policymakers and decision makers to learn more about issues and solutions related to the digital divide.

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Dan Grano
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