IDeaS in the News
2024
Center Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and IDeaS Center research is referenced in the article by and in Reuters entitled, "Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say". Read the full article here.
November 4, 2024
Center Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and IDeaS Center research is referenced in the article by Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic entitled, "Nobody Look at Mark Zuckerberg". Read the full article .
November 4, 2024
Knight Affiliate Lynnette Ng won the best graduate student poster for her poster "Online Community: Are you chatting with bots?" at the fifth annual at Duquesne University. Her poster discussed how bots generate more than half of the internet traffic, and actively disseminate propaganda, amplify disinformation, manipulate opinions; and play key roles in political and crisis events on social media and online.
October 18, 2024
Center Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and IDeaS Center research is referenced in the article by in AP entitled, "Overseas voters are the latest target in Trump’s false narrative on election fraud". Read the full article .
September 25, 2024
Knight Fellows Samantha Phillips and Lynnette Ng won the 2024 Best Paper Award Runner Up Award for the paper, "" with co-authors Wenqui Zhou and Kathleen M. Carley.
September 20, 2024
IDeaS Fellows and graduate students Daniele Bellutta, Catherine King, Samantha Phillips, Evan Williams, and Christine Lepird presented papers at the 2024 IDeaS and conferences held at 一本道无码 September 18-20, 2024.
September 18, 2024
Center Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and IDeaS Center research is referenced in the article by in Financial Times entitled, "US local news swamped by ‘pink slime’ as political influence ramps up". Read the full article .
April 3, 2024
Center Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and IDeaS Center research is referenced in the article by in Scientific American entitled, "How AI Bots Could Sabotage 2024 Elections around the World". Read the full article .
February 13, 2024
IDeaS Center research is highlighted in the article by in New Scientist entitled, "Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident". Read the full article .
(This research and article were also published at Reddit,
February 2, 2024
一本道无码 faculty and researchers, including our director, Kathleen M. Carley,provided expertise on a wide variety of topics for a series of videos entitled "一本道无码 Experts". Watch her video and others .
January 11, 2024
2023
Knight Fellow Christine Lepird won the best graduate student poster for her poster "Agenda-Driven Partisan Algorithms Are Creating "Local" News: Is Your Community Being Targeted?" at the at Duquesne University. Her poster showed how 'pink slime' sites spend their ad money in each state in a way that was related to the margin of the vote spread in the 2020 presidential election; how the ad spend resulted in authentic spread to neighborhood Facebook groups; and how the sites were shared by social media users on political lines rather than geographic ones.
November 10, 2023
Knight Fellow Isabel Murdock presented at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2023) where she received the Best Paper Award.
November 9, 2023
IDeaS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed for the Financial Times article, regarding disinformation surrouding the conflict.
October 16, 2023
IDeaS Fellows graduate students Daniele Bellutta, Catherine King, Samantha Phillips, Wenjia Hu, and Yurun Tian presented papers at the 2023 IDeaS and conferences held at 一本道无码 September 20-22, 2023.
September 20, 2023
IDeaS Graduate Janice Blane and current graduate student Lynnette Ng along with director Kathleen M. Carley have a chapter published in the publication, Vaccine Communication Online. Full citation and link to the book is below.
Blane, J.T., Ng, L.H.X., Carley, K.M. (2023). Analyzing Social-Cyber Maneuvers for Spreading COVID-19 Pro- and Anti- Vaccine Information. In: Ginossar, T., Shah, S.F.A., Weiss, D. (eds) Vaccine Communication Online. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
August 8, 2023
IDeaS graduate student Joshua Uyheng and research associate Dawn Robertson along with director Kathleen M. Carley have a research article published in the BMC Digital Health. Link to the article below:
Uyheng, Joshua, Robertson, Dawn C. and Carley, Kathleen M. (2023). Bridging online and offline dynamics of the face mask infodemic.
July 27, 2023
IDeaS Director Kathleen M. Carley gives keynote at the in Vienna July 13th. The conference held by the , aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners working in the emerging area of network science.
July 13, 2023
IDeaS graduate student Iuliia Alieva and research associate Dawn Robertson along with director Kathleen M. Carley have a research article published in the Journal of Health Communication. Link to the article below:
Alieva, Iuliia , Robertson, Dawn & Carley, Kathleen M (2023) Localizing COVID-19 Misinformation: A Case Study of Tracking Twitter Pandemic Narratives in Pennsylvania Using Computational Network Science, Journal of Health Communication, 28:sup1, 76-85, DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2023.2217102.
June 30, 2023
IDeaS Co-Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed for the Quanta Magazine article, "Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't". Read the full article .
May 12, 2023
IDeaS Fellow Catherine King published a new paper entitled, "Gender dynamics on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential primary". Check out the paper in Social Network Analysis and Mining .
March 15, 2023
IDeaS Co-Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by Rolling Stone in the article, "Twitter Bots Are Promising Cheap Guns to Anyone Using the N-Word". Read the article.
March 6, 2023
IDeaS Fellow Daniele Bellutta published a new paper entitled, "Investigating coordinated account creation
using burst detection and network analysis." Check out the paper in the Journal of Big Data .
February 10, 2023
IDeaS Co-Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by The Grid about how Twitter API access charges could kill Twitter as we know it. See article.
February 2, 2023
IDeaS co-director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and quoted in the french publication Science & Medicine in the January 2023 issue in the article entitled, "Les Nouvelles Règles de Twitter Inquiètent la Recherche" ("New Twitter Rules Worry Researchers"). Access the acticle here.
January 11, 2023
IDeaS Fellow Lynnette Ng published a new paper entitled, "A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media." Check out the paper in Applied Network Science .
January 3, 2023
2022
IDeaS Fellow Lynnette Ng published a new paper entitled, "Coordinating Narratives Framework for cross-platform analysis in the 2021 US Capitol riots." Check out the paper in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory .
November 21, 2022
IDeaS Fellow Evan Williams paper entitled, "TSPA: Efficient Target-Stance Detection on Twitter" was accepted to be presented at the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) in Istanbul, Turkey. Check out the paper .
November 6, 2022
IDeaS Fellow Lynnette Ng published a new paper entitled, "Is my stance the same as your stance? A cross validation study of stance detection datasets." Check out the paper in Information Processing & Management .
November 2, 2022
IDeaS Fellow Lynnette Ng published a new paper entitled, "Cross-platform information spread during the January 6th capitol riots." Check out the paper in Social Network Analysis and Mining .
September 9, 2022
IDeaS Co-Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by CNN's Anchors on Early Start regarding the number of bots on Twitter and the methods in detecting them. See the full interview .
June 7, 2022
IDeaS Co-Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by Technology Reporter Benjamin Powers from Grid regarding bots and Twitter. Read the full article .
May 31, 2022
IDeaS Co-Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the Washington Post for the Article "Musk's question about bots is nothing new for Twitter". Read about her comments and some of our research regarding bots on Twitter by reading the full article .
May 13, 2022
Robert Thibadeau's proposal on /SI/ Distributing Cryptocurrency and NFT across Self-Protecting Storage was accepted the the to be held in Santa Clara this August.
May 2, 2022
Graduate student Luke Osterritter joined the National Cryptologic Foundation to discuss dismantling disinformation. Watch the video .
April 26, 2022
IDeaS faculty Conrad Tucker appointed to serve on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's new Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competition, Inclusion, and Innovation. See the full announcement.
March 7, 2022
IDeaS PA Vaccine Hesitancy Project is referenced in on disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
February 10, 2022
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January 26, 2022
2021
IDeaS associate Andrew Moore by Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto.
November 5, 2021
Andy Norman talks about his new book, , on several .
October 2021
Dr. Kathleen Carley talks about social-cybersecurity and the BEND framework on The Cognitive Crucible, a podcast from the Information Professionals Association. .
August 17, 2021
Aman Tyagi and looked at the polarization of climate change beliefs on social media and offered targeted approaches toward reshaping beliefs in their recent paper, "."
August 11, 2021
IDeaS student Judeth Oden Choi is at The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, CITAP.
August 2021
Knight Fellow Mansi Sood and Dr. Osman Yağan are working to improve distributed systems. “In many distributed systems, connectivity is a fundamental driver of system performance,” Sood says. But, establishing the links between nodes can be costly, and as you set up more, you approach a trade-off between connectivity and cost. .
July 19, 2021
Ashique KhudaBukhsh of 一本道无码’s Language Technologies Institute led a team of researchers who used machine learning to identify supportive tweets from Pakistan during India’s COVID crisis. .
June 28, 2021
: SBEG: Social, Behavioral, Economic and Governance Issues during a Pandemic featured Dr. Kathleen M. Carley speaking about COVID disinformation campaigns. See the .
June 25, 2021
"Convenience nearly always comes at a cost, and there is a danger that this creates opportunities for greater levels of surveillance." IDeaS faculty Jason Hong talks to Lifewire about storing your ID on your phone. .
June 16, 2021
"Jodi Forlizzi will lean on her background as a designer to address what she calls "a truly wicked problem" in her in the School of Computer Science."
June 7, 2021
Dr. Kathleen M. Carley discusses Deepfakes, Disinformation, and Democracy at the D3 Conference, hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), in collaboration with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) and the Online News Association (ONA).
June 2, 2021
"Public health messengers should start with a discussion of risks and benefits for kids and teens, said Baruch Fischhoff. Having that discussion sooner rather than later helps get in front of misinformation and makes public health messengers’ jobs easier..." Article in
May 5, 2021
Baruch Fischhoff explains how to communicate risk in medical messaging, including the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, in
April 30, 2021
Dr. David Danks wins a 2020 for his project "An integrated framework for understanding human-AI hybrid decision-making"
April 27, 2021
IDeaS faculty member Mark Kamlet discusses "Cable News and Misinformation" as part of Deitrich Deep Dives, a series of engaging and in-depth presentations about critical political and societal issues through the lens of the humanities, social sciences and related fields. Hosted by Kathy Newman, associate professor, Dietrich College
April 20, 2021
Dr. Kathleen Carley speaks on an expert panel organized by Spotlight PA, 
April 20, 2021
Dietrich Deep Dives, a series of engaging and in-depth presentations about critical political and societal issues through the lens of the humanities, social sciences and related fields, invited Dr. Kathleen Carley to speak about Social Media and Misinformation, hosted by IDeaS Professor Danny Oppenheimer.
April 1, 2021
Kathleen M. Carley speaks about developing understandings and technologies to manage the safety of online discourse in this with Michael Joyce.
March 31, 2021
IDeaS faculty member, Michael Shamos, talks about electronic voting machine security for Dietrich Deep Dives, a series of engaging and in-depth presentations about critical political and societal issues through the lens of the humanities, social sciences and related fields. Hosted by Aaditya Ramdas, assistant professor, Dietrich College and School of Computer Science.
March 30, 2021
IDeaS faculty member Conrad Tucker has a new article in the journal .
Read feature summary by Daniel Tkacik:
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March 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. 一本道无码 asked experts, including Dr. Kathleen Carley, to reflect on the past year and what the changes mean for our future.
March 11, 2021
IDeaS Co-director Dr. David Danks shared thoughts on the . The panel discussion moderated by Rebecca MacKinnon is part of the Futures Forum series from .
Panelists Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Asta Zelenkauskaite, David Danks
March 4, 2021
Dis/misinformation created false narratives that feuled violence at the Capitol riot on January 6. talked to experts, including Dr. Kathleen M. Carley, about how these narratives develop.
February 7, 2021
asked about the warning signs of radicalization and who is most susceptible. Kathleen M. Carley provided some answers.
January 26, 2021
IDeaS Center Director Kathleen M. Carley talks about disinformation and how media outlets can combat it in
January 22, 2021
2020
Director Kathleen M. Carley joined a panel and gave a talk "Social Influence and Disinformation in Cyberspace" at The 3rd 一本道无码 Open Science Symposium Tuesday, October 20, 2020. Find more info .
The IDeaS Center collaborated with Duquesne University for the Inaugural Grefenstette Symposium: Disinformation, Misinformation and Technology: New Ethical Challenges and Solutions on October 7th. .
The IDeaS Center and the Block Center for Technology and Society will co-presented with panelists Kathleen Carley and Yonatan Bisk on Tuesday, October 6th.
Kathleen M. Carley sits down to talk to Dr. Nick van Terheyden on "The Incrementalist" to discuss social media and misinformation online. Follow for the full podcast.
Through guided research opportunities, students are exploring issues related to COVID-19 and other topics at 一本道无码 this summer. Prof. Kathleen M. Carley will lead a project course. Find more information here.
Wisconsin Public Radio conversation Kathleen M. Carley about how bots pushed to reopen the economy,
Kathleen M. Carley sits down with Julie Rose of "Top of Mind" on BYU Radio June 10th to discuss how
Center research is discussed in the article by Maya Shwayder in Digital Trends, "Researchers: Bots are spreading conspiracy theories about #blacklivesmatter". Read the full article .
Director Kathleen M. Carley from 一本道无码 speaks with ABC7's Kristen Sze about its use and power. Read the article .
NPR interviews Kathleen M. Carley for their article, "Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots". Read article .
MIT Technology Review Article, "Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots" discusses the research of Kathleen M. Carley and the IDeaS Center. Read full article
Kathleen M. Carley and M. Anthony Mills (R Street Institute) pen the article in The Fulcrum, "Our duty as citizens includes combatting pandemic's digital disinformation", read article .
VICE News interviews director Kathleen M. Carley about bots and misinformation surrounding COVID-19. Read the article
AP News features CASOS Center Research directed by Kathleen M. Carley in the article about the spread of misinformation on Facebook with protest groups.
Director Kathleen M. Carley contributes to PBS News Hour's Courtney Vinopal article about misinformation and the pandemic,
by Wesa.fm's Liz Reid highlights findings by Director Kathleen M. Carley and CASOS Center on misinformation about COVID-19.
Director Kathleen M. Carley joins CASOS graduate student Geoff Dobson on the podcast The COVID-19 Experience. Listen to this and other episodes .
Director Kathleen M. Carley is a panelist for the R Street Institute Panel streamed live on March 19, 2020.
Article "Investing in Social Cybersecurity" by CASOS graduate student David Beskow and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of pages 16-19.
Article "BEND: A Framework for Social Cybersecurity" by Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of pages 20-25.
Article "Identifying Misinformation Campaigns" by CASOS graduate student Iain Cruikshank and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of pages 36-37.
Popular Science article Kathleen M. Carley discusses CASOS Center research on Disinformation about Coronavirus Mutations.
Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses disinformation and COVID-19 in the .
CASOS researchers study disinformation and the COVID-19 pandemic, .
Researchers at Princeton and Carnegie Mellon develop a new model to track epidemics. .
Director Kathleen M. Carley presents CASOS research at the NAS Surprise Resulting from Convergence Workshop in Washington, DC February 6th and 7th.
Director Kathleen M. Carley briefs the hill on CASOS research February 27th in Washington, DC.
Director Kathleen M. Carley participates in panel in Oslo Norway Hacking Democracy: Influence Operations in the Digital Age hosted by Norwegian Defence Research Establishment on February 13th.
2019
- Next Pittsburgh
August 5, 2019
-Inside Higher Ed
July 24, 2019
- Pittsburgh Business Times
July 23, 2019
July 22, 2019