Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue (IILP)

Institute Spotlight: Student Research Roundtable Information Studies Undergraduate Student Research Roundtable Nov 6, 2024 2:30pm in WALC B074 Join us for a research roundtable conversation with Purdue undergraduate researchers! A panel of undergraduate researchers will share their experiences conducting innovative information studies research & offer suggestions for those interested in exploring undergraduate research opportunities. Come for food, conversation, & ideas for getting involved in information studies research with the School of Information Studies! ? Moderated by Maggie Collins, undergraduate pedagogy and research assistant to the Institute. — Noelia Alvarez (SPIRaL Algorithmic technologies and democratic engagement: Perception, participation, and progress),? — Gianna Durante (Exploring evolution of callose synthase in green plants,? JPUR 2023),? — Elle Gackiere (Partners for Algorithmic Literacy),? — Juan Jose Ruiz Maza Nava (Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) — Amelia Simpson (A brief history of Hovde Hall and its association with Black student protests at Purdue University, Archives and Special Collections & Urban Matters Lab) Leading up to the event, we will feature each of the students & their research! #IILPResearch

Institute? Spotlight:? SPIRaL w/ Dr. Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin ?? The Institute gives a big thanks to Dr. Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin for her presentation “Negotiated Autonomy: The Role of Social Media Algorithms in Editorial Decision Making” shared with this year’s SPIRaL undergraduate researchers (Link to SPIRaL: https://lnkd.in/gS3DqCkf). ?? Dr. Peterson-Salahuddin presented key findings from her co-authored study & discussed her research approach & strategies for the SPIRaL researchers, who will soon kick off their own interview study about how student journalists perceive information challenges affecting their work writing for university student newspapers. ? ?? Dr. Peterson-Salahuddin is an Assistant professor & Presidential Fellow at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She studies the ways in which marginalized communities overcome or continue to experience systemic barriers to equity through their interactions with digital communication technologies & how algorithmic biases have more recently come into play to shape user experience on these platforms. ??Dr. Peterson-Salahuddin was a featured speaker at the 2024 Information & Democracy: Education, Access, Libraries, & Society symposium where she presented about her research "Towards Equitable Information: Understanding & Addressing Barriers to Black & Women of Color’s Information Access & Use" (Link to youtube clip https://lnkd.in/gruBrT-i) Thank you, Dr. Peterson-Salahuddin, for sharing your expertise with our emerging information literacy researchers at Purdue!

Purdue Exponent Article with Noelia Alvarez ??Congratulations to Noelia A., a fourth year Purdue student studying artificial intelligence through the Philosophy department, for being featured in the Purdue Exponent's (The Purdue Exponent) recent story (link below) about the Libraries and School of Information Studies' new Minor in Information Studies! ??Noelia was one of the inaugural SPIRaL researchers who participated in the research program in 2023-2024 to study how Purdue college students perceive social media algorithms as they participate democratically on social media platforms. Noelia leveraged her knowledge in artificial intelligence as an intern with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC this past summer, and she encourages other Purdue students to explore courses in the new Minor in Information Studies. ??Learn more about the Minor and how students can benefit from taking information studies courses by clicking the link below. https://lnkd.in/gZmKWvFF

We want to take a moment to highlight one of our SPIRaL scholars, Noelia Alvarez. Noelia is a first-generation college student who transferred from Ivy Tech Community College to Purdue in fall 2023 as an Artificial Intelligence major. In addition to presenting with the entire SPIRaL research team at ID:EALS in April 2024, Noelia presented a research poster for undergraduates curious to learn more about research at an event hosted by the Horizons Student Support Program (https://lnkd.in/gqEEC3-D)! Noelia will leverage her research skills and knowledge about algorithmic systems as she spends her summer in Washington D.C., where she is interning for the Bipartisan Policy Center. She will be working with the technology project, which examines issues surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), such as fairness, regulation, privacy, and security. Congratulations to Noelia for these wonderful accomplishments! We are so very proud of Noelia and all of our SPIRaL scholars’ accomplishments this year! To learn more about SPIRaL, visit https://lnkd.in/g4qnjM3K.