Information Science

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.

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 … Researcher receives grant to further study ‘deviant’ social media behaviors

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 … Research explores how ‘deviant’ messages flood social media

An academic journal focused on issues related to information security and privacy has published the work of two faculty members, including Dr. Rachida Parks.

The Journal of Applied Psychology has published the work of Distinguished Professor Rolf Wigand and his colleagues, based on research supported by the National Science Foundation.

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.

One Information Science student tells us about a new club at UALR that just might 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.

The “Arab Spring” demonstrated that the proliferation of social media has changed the way that news is produced and consumed.

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.