Research Roundup

University of Michigan School of Information faculty and PhD students are creating and sharing knowledge that helps build a better world. Here are some of their recent publications.

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Researchers follow the money to illuminate U.S. House candidates’ ideological movement

03/19/2025

A new study co-authored by UMSI PhD candidate Megan A. Brown finds incumbents more likely to move toward ideological extremes — then back to center for the general election — when they are facing a well-funded primary challenger.

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Shared narrative and the role of collective memory for displaced Palestinians

03/11/2025

New research by UMSI PhD candidates Ghadir Awad, Lavinia Dunagan, David Gamba and Tam Rayan studies how collective narratives are sustained through geography, gender and communal bonds in Palestinian oral histories.

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Emotion AI will not fix the workplace

03/05/2025

UMSI assistant professor Nazanin Andalibi writes about the perils of emotion AI in the workplace for the Association for Computing Machinery's Interactions Magazine.

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U-M team wins third in challenge to improve data on youth suicide

03/04/2025

UMSI PhD student Aparna Ananthasubramaniam is part of a U-M team that studied U.S. suicide risks over the lifespan, earning third prize in a national challenge.

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UMSI Research Roundup. Safe Online Communities. Intersectional Ageism. Check out UMSI and PhD student publications.

Safe Online Communities | Intersectional Ageism: AI in Focus

03/03/2025

UMSI research on artificial intelligence.

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UMSI Research Roundup. Toxicity on Social Media. Affirmative Action. Collective Memory. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Toxicity on Social Media | Affirmative Action | Collective Memory: UMSI Research Roundup

02/24/2025

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

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First Paper Friday: Yongjie Sha

02/14/2025

Sha’s paper studies the impact of a community-driven effort to reverse overdoses through a smartphone app.

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Study: Paywalls influence newspaper coverage

01/29/2025

Work by UMSI researchers Paramveer Dhillon, Anmol Panda and Libby Hemphill shows paywalls "may fundamentally alter what news gets covered."

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Sena Kojah. PhD Student. Dialing it Back: Shadowbanning, Invisible Digital Labor, and how Marginalized Content Creators Attempt to Mitigate the Impacts of Opaque Platform Governance. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

First Paper Friday: Sena Kojah

01/24/2025

Kojah’s paper explores the disproportionate impact of shadowbanning on social media platforms on content creators with marginalized identities.

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An archival World Turns: Armenian women's archives in Southeast Michigan. Nazelie Doghramadjian, UMSI PhD student. Patricia Garcia, associate professor of information. Ricky Punzalan, associate professor of information.

Archival silences and the role of Armenian women as memory-keepers in Southeast Michigan

01/15/2025

New work by UMSI PhD student Nazelie Doghramadjian and associate professors Patricia Garcia and Ricky Punzalan examines how Armenian women serve as “stewards of personal, family and community records” for their community.

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