Democracy Works co-founder Kathryn Peters named executive director of CITAP
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has selected Kathryn Peters as its first executive director, effective July 6. Kathryn Peters has been named executive director of CITAP Carolina established CITAP last summer with a $5 million gift from the John S. and James…
Francesca Tripodi joining UNC SILS and CITAP
Sociologist and media scholar Francesca Tripodi will join the faculty of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) as an assistant professor, effective July 1. Her research examines the relationship between social media, political partisanship, and democratic participation, revealing how Google and Wikipedia are manipulated for political gains. In addition to her appointment…
Alice Marwick awarded Carnegie Fellowship
CITAP Researcher and Associate Professor of Communication Alice Marwick has been awarded a prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Marwick will use the $200,000 of research funding to study narratives of online radicalization, asking how and why people come to believe fringe, false, or extremist viewpoints that they encounter on social media platforms. Read more through the…