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Held at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information on March 15, 2025, the aim of the conference, the organizers, wrote, was to “drive more attunement as a means to return to an environment of civil, respectful, and dignified discourse to create much more productive connections” during the present time when “we are experiencing a world of division, extremism, acrimony, and an overall lack of civility and respect.”

The symposium created a platform for scholars, practitioners, and students to exchange insights on real-world challenges, ranging from AI and ethics to knowledge infrastructure, to community and inclusion.

Digital inequality – challenges in accessing or maintaining an internet connection and functional digital devices – affected on-time graduation for U.S.

Rutgers researchers identify “information snowballing” as a method that individuals interested in any topic, from sustainability to career growth, can use to effectively and quickly increase their knowledge.

JOCAM publishes a special section on its coming of age and honors its founder Dafna Lemish.

The Web Science Trust (WST) is a charity that promotes the understanding of the Web through education and research in web science.

During his long and distinguished career, Schement contributed to communications policy in the U.S. and helped mentor his peers with his humor and storytelling.

A Rutgers-led project examines trust in the technology.

The prestigious and highly competitive fellowship was formed by The Faith and Politics Institute after the 2020 death of the late civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis. As a fellow, Wilson will concentrate on studying the six principles of nonviolence and the history of the Civil Rights Movement.

“Lewis’s heroism was central to the Selma campaign in 1965, and he also was the one who did the most to keep Selma alive in popular memory in the last few decades, through these pilgrimages. So he really is the person with whom the campaign is most associated,” said SC&I and History Professor David Greenberg, author of “John Lewis: A Life.”