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Dr. Spiro will participate in a panel on Detecting, Combating, and Identifying Dis and Misinformation at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington this week. Her talk on “Misinformation in the Context of Emergencies and Disaster Events” will review recent learnings from research over the past decade.

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This week Dr. Spiro will join colleages from the Center for an Informed Public on a panel at the Seattle Town Hall. The panelists will explore questions and solutions for building our trust in modern media.

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PhD student Li Zeng is scheduled to give an invited research talk “Understanding Social Behavior Using Digital Traces” at Peking University this week.

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Today, we launched the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public! The event featured the presidents of the University of Washington and Washington State University, celebrated the launch of the CIP with the announcement of a new statewide partnership to battle misinformation.

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Peaks Krafft will join the faculty of the Oxford Internet Institute, the Social Sciences Division, of the University of Oxford this June. Read more in its blog post, New Research Fellow Joins the Oxford Internet Institute. Congratulations, Dr. Krafft!

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PhD student Li Zeng presented her work “‘Friending’ in Online Fitness Communities: Exploring Activity-Based Online Network Structure” at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

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Dr. Spiro will attend the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). At the conference she will present a poster on joint work with PhD student Li Zeng on “Gender Differences in Social Exercise in an Online Fitness Community”.

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PhD student Li Zeng won the Best Paper Award of the 10th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media for her paper “Stay Connected and Keep Motivated: Modeling Activity Level of Exercise in an Online Fitness Community”.

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PhD student Li Zeng will present her work at the 2018 HCI International conference in Las Vegas this week. Her research paper, “Stay Connected and Keep Motivated: Modeling Activity Level of Exercise in an Online Fitness Community” explores personal health and wellness tracking.

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Dr. Spiro and Dr. Starbird were awarded an NSF grant to study Collective Sensemaking Online. The research project will address empirical and conceptual questions about online rumoring, asking: (1) How do online rumors permute, branch, and otherwise evolve over the course of their lifetime? (2) How can theories of rumor spread in offline settings be extended to online interaction, and what factors (technological and behavioral) influence these dynamics, perhaps making online settings distinct environments for information flow?

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