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Brook Conner to Join Panel at the Hawai‘i Cybersecurity R&D and Capacity Building Symposium
The CIS program is proud to share that Brook Conner, a CIS Ph.D. student, will be a panelist at the Hawai‘i Cybersecurity R&D and Capacity Building Symposium. This free event will take place Feb. 25 to 26, 2025, at the UH Mānoa Campus Center. Brook will join experts from Bank of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i State Federal […]
CIS Seminar Series: Data Quality Literacy
On Monday, February 10, 2025, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded Data Quality Literacy project team—Bobray Bordelon (Princeton University), Rashelle Nagar (Stanford University), Jennifer Boettcher (Georgetown University), and Grace Liu (West Chester University)—led a CIS seminar on building awareness and competencies in data quality literacy. The panel provided valuable insights into maintaining data […]
CIS Seminar on “Uncanny Discourse: A New Space for Research in Interaction”
On Monday, February 3, 2025, CIS Ph.D. students Brook Connor, Kapono Gaughen and Yuri Kenney, alongside CIS faculty member Dr. Jenifer Sunrise Winter, presented their forthcoming paper on uncanny discourse — an idea that emerged from discussions in last fall’s CIS 701 course, Communication & Information Theories of Society. The paper will be presented at […]
Yiting Wang Defends Her Dissertation: Multimodal Analysis: The Performativity of Short-Form Videos and Their Affordances
Congratulations to Yiting Wang for passing her dissertation defense on Friday, November 15, 2024! Title of Dissertation: Multimodal Analysis: The Performativity of Short-Form Videos and Their Affordances Abstract: With short-form videos being ubiquitous, making sense of their performativity as well as the potential relationship (affordances) between people and short videos are imperative. Studies of social […]
