On July 22, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a $50 million investment to develop a new field of research around technology’s impact on democracy, including a $5 million gift to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … Read more
For the first time, social media surpassed newspapers as a news source for Americans last year. Nine in 10 Americans say they get at least some of their news digitally, and U.S. consumers are expected to spend more time looking … Read more
Megan Threats, a doctoral candidate at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been awarded a 2019 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Beta Phi Mu national honor society. Threats is a 2011 graduate of Michigan … Read more
After three years of collaboration, investigation, and development, researchers at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) have released a free online curriculum to help youth services library staff learn to create more inclusive and equitable programming. Accessible … Read more
Students taking the INLS 582 Systems Analysis class at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) this spring worked with UNC ITS Teaching and Learning to improve the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) printing process on campus. “We wanted … Read more
Emma Boettcher is a user experience librarian who won at “Jeopardy!” ending the rich run of James Holzhauer. (Google, or Siri, or Alexa): “What is a user experience librarian?” Just answering this question can be a challenge to a machine – … Read more
Emma Boettcher (MSIS ’16), an alumna of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), became a media sensation in early June after her defeat of “Jeopardy!” phenomenon James Holzhauer. Before Boettcher’s debut, Holzhauer had enjoyed a 32-game winning … Read more
In a recent article for WIRED, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci highlights the ways that companies are using connectivity and embedded intelligence to increase profits by limiting consumer options. “Today, we may think we … Read more
Megan Threats and Kristen Bowen, doctoral students at the UNC School of Information and Library Science, are two of the four PhD students selected from a nationwide search to co-teach modules on research design and programming for the iSchool Inclusion … Read more
Amelia Gibson, Assistant Professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), gave the keynote address at the Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Conference on May 23 at the University of Michigan. The 2019 conference theme was Equitable … Read more
