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Selected Conference Presentations, Papers and Posters Carlos Caicedo, associate professor, presented a paper, “Spectrum Management Issues for the Operations of Commercial Services with UAVs,” at the Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. Caicedo also presented a poster on the topic, “A Standard Method for Modelling Spectrum Consumption,” at the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) in March. (Co-authors are: Anthony Rennier, Alex Lackpour, Reinhard Schrage, John A. Stine, Matthew Sherman and Mieczyslaw Kokar.) Rachel Ivy Clarke, assistant professor, presented at the American Library Association annual conference on “From MLS to MLD: It’s Time to Integrate Design Thinking and Philosophy into LIS Education,” co-authored with Stephen Bell. Clarke also presented at the American Literature Conference on “Powerful Propaganda: Patrons’ Reading Selections in the Washington County (MD) Free Library, 1901-1915.” Kevin Crowston, assistant dean for research, presented two papers at the International Conference on System Sciences in Waikoloa, Hawaii: “Blending Machine and Human Learning Processes” (written with Associate Professor Carsten Oesterlund and Tae Kyoung Lee); and “Comparing Data Science Project Management Methodologies Via a Controlled Experiment” (authored with Associate Professor Jeffrey Saltz). Crowston also presented “Work Features to Support Stigmergic Coordination in Distributed Teams” (written with Howison James, Francesco Bolici and Associate Professor Carsten Oesterlund) at the Academy of Management Conference in Atlanta. Ingrid Erickson, assistant professor, presented a short paper at the 8th International Social Media and Society Conference, “Creating Safety as a Form of Gendered Labor: The Case of Wikipedia.”
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Caroline Haythornthwaite, professor, had her paper, “Social Media in Educational Practice: Faculty Present and Future Use of Social Media in Teaching,” included in proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
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Jeff Hemsley, assistant professor, along with Martha Garcia-Murillo, professor, and Ian MacInnes, associate professor, presented at the 45th Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. Their paper was “An Analysis of Diffusion of Universal Basic Income Policy over Twitter.” Hemsley also presented two additional papers at Internet Research 18: The 18th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers in Estonia. They were: “A Study of Diffusion in the Dribbble Art World” (with doctoral students Jennifer Sonne, Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Yihan Yu and Suchitra Deekshitula. and “Automated Diffusion? Bots and Their Influence During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election” (authored with postdoctoral researchers Olga Boichak, doctoral student Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Research Associate Patricia Rossini and F.D. Espinosa and Sam Jackson. Hemsley’s paper, “Call to Retweet: Negotiated Diffusion of Strategic Political Messages,” was included in proceedings of the ACM Conference on Social Media and Society (SM&S 2017). Another of his papers, written with Professor Martha Garcia-Murillo and Associate Professor Ian MacInnes, “Retweets for Policy Advocates: Tweet Diffusion in the Police Discussion Space of Universal Basic Income,” was included in the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society. He also presented, “Social Media Strategies and Public Opinion Polls in the Early Stages of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaigns,” (completed with Research Associate Patricia Rossini, doctoral students Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Feifei Zhang, Jerry Robinson and Professor Jennifer StromerGalley). “A Method for Computational Topic Identification in Social Media Messages” (which Hemsley wrote with Sam Jackson, Feifei Zhang, Olga Boichak, Yingya Li, Professor Jennifer Stromer-