A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor and a Ph.D. candidate recently earned a prestigious honor from an international conference.
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, a leading social media scholar, and one of his Ph.D. students, Amit Saha, garnered a top paper award at the Social Media Technologies, Communication and Informatics Conference.
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A new grant from the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) will help a University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor further establish himself as a leader in social media research.
The grant, which builds on a previous ONR-funded project that Dr. Nitin Agarwal conducted, enables him and his team to dig deeper into the organized use of social media by deviant groups to spread misinformation, stoke violence and panic, and conduct recruitment and radicalization campaigns.
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From terrorist propaganda to political activism, many diverse causes and voices now use social media as their major public platform. As a result, the way in which groups release, spread, and popularize information online is becoming more and more culturally significant.
Dr. Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy chair and professor of information science, has been awarded a grant in collaboration with Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) to support his research into this subject.
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An academic journal focused on issues related to information security and privacy has published the work of two faculty members at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Continue reading “Information security and privacy journal publishes faculty research”
A leading academic journal has published the research of University of Arkansas at Little Rock Distinguished Professor Rolf Wigand and his colleagues from the University of Munich, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of South Carolina. Continue reading “Leading academic journal publishes professor’s research”
An associate professor at UALR has received military grant funding that could provide insight into the continued crisis in Ukraine. The research findings are already being used by NATO. Continue reading “Military funds professor’s social media research on Ukraine”
This week, Information Science student Debanjan Mahata tells us about a new UALR club that could change your life.
Representatives from 25 countries, 63 companies, and 20 educational institutions from around the world are at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock this week during two back-to-back major international conferences focused on data science. Continue reading “‘Big Data’ conferences attract reps from 25 countries”
The “Arab Spring” demonstrated that the proliferation of social media has changed the way that news is produced and consumed. Continue reading “Qatar Institute Features Professor’s Social Media Research”
Two UALR professors, Dr. Seshadri Mohan, chair of the department of systems engineering, and Dr. Nitin Agarwal, assistant professor of information science, are the guest editors of the June 2012 edition of IEEE Communications Magazine.
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