Watch the CIC Award-Winning Research Lunch and Learn presentations.
Faculty and students in the College of Information and Communications are actively engaged in a wide variety of activities related to research and creative scholarship.
This biennial event welcomes scholars from various disciplines and approaches that address the vital relationships between civil rights and public communication from local/national/transnational contexts, perspectives and periods.
The Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History, given biennially, recognizes the best journal article or chapter in an edited collection on the historical relationship between the media and civil rights published during the previous two years.
This event featured award-winning research by our faculty and graduate students from across the College. This event was in-person and online. Presentations:
Dr. Augie Grant , drawing from the 2021 Technology Futures Conference in Austin, explored the latest developments in communication technologies from 5G and AI to streaming video and eHealth in this one-hour session. The session addresses pandemic and post-pandemic impacts on the major technologies.
In this event between the CIC and UofSC’s AI Institute, Dr. Amit Sheth and his team discussed research that seeks to counter the consequences of the misuse of technology. They also reviewed analysis of social media data on addiction, mental health, and other public health challenges.
Multiple faculty from across the College received funding to conduct research on various topics. Topics include the following: 1) The Mosaic of Communication Science: An Analysis of 20 years of Academic Publications; 2) Emotionality in Staff News Photography Versus Stock Photography; 3) Social Conversation on the FDA’s Modified Risk Tobacco Products Authorization of IQOS and Young Adults’ Interest and Trial Intent of IQOS During the Pandemic; and 4) Detecting and Characterizing Health Posts of Malicious Actors on Twitter.