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Jared Yates Sexton, an associate professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University, pictured.

Truth is stranger than fiction for creative writer Jared Yates Sexton

9/4/18

Jared Yates Sexton will read excerpts from both his nonfiction book and fiction works on Thursday, Sept. 6, when he visits Penn State Behrend to open the college’s Creative Writers Reading Series. We caught up with him in advance of his visit to discuss his newfound fame and how he’s juggling the writing of both fiction and nonfiction on a regular basis.

Twitter data used for crisis response

Improving disaster response through Twitter data

7/10/18

When disaster strikes, emergency responders often use social media data to understand the big-picture impact of an event. But thanks to an international team of researchers, organizations could soon have access to real-time, automatically generated summaries of the collateral impact of a disaster based on crowdsourced Twitter data.

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IST researchers incorporate social media into emergency response

6/27/18

A team of researchers from the College of Information Sciences and Technology is working to develop a tool that could help 911 call centers integrate crowdsourced social media posts into their operations. The group is developing and testing software that expands on the information available to first responders upon arriving at an emergency scene.

Emergency responders might be able to one day use Twitter to organize disaster recovery.

Can Twitter aid disaster response? New IST research examines how

8/17/17

With over 500 million tweets sent every single day, new research from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is investigating innovative ways to use that data to help communities respond during unexpected catastrophes.

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Twitter data changing future of population research

7/17/17

Guangqing Chi, associate professor of rural sociology and demography and public health sciences in Penn State's Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education and director of the Computational and Spatial Analysis (CSA) Core in the Social Science Research Institute, and his team have collected over 30 terabytes of geo-tagged tweets over the last four years.

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Negative tweets can trash TV programs for other viewers

6/22/17

The impact of a negative online or social media comment about a television show may have more impact than a positive one. In a study, researchers found that people who saw negative comments about a television show while watching a clip were less likely to think that other people would like the show and that people would probably not recommend the show to their friends. This may have implications on how people use "second screens" -- their social media windows -- while watching news, entertainment and other programming.

Brandywine professor weighs in on NPR conversation about #ThanksForTyping

4/19/17

When National Public Radio (NPR) picked up an academic hashtag going viral on Twitter, it also reached out to Kathleen Kennedy, associate professor of English at Penn State Brandywine, for further information. The hashtag, #ThanksForTyping, showcased the unnoticed work of wives, left unnamed, who typed and edited manuscripts for their husbands in the mid-20th century

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Graduate School launches @GradSchoolPSU on Twitter

3/24/17

The Graduate School at Penn State is now on Twitter. Through @GradSchoolPSU the Graduate School will be sharing important information, celebrating the achievements of graduate students, and interacting with its audience.

Young woman sits in a chair and takes a selfie with a smartphone.

To thine own selfie be true

5/20/16

This spring, Leisha Jones, assistant professor of English in Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts, taught a course examining selfies and the genre's cultural, historical and social implications. She invited her class to help her suss out her big questions and examine their own preconceptions.

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Penn State Greater Allegheny faculty's photographs featured in Wired magazine

10/20/15

Lori Hepner, associate professor of integrative arts at Penn State Greater Allegheny, had her work profiled recently in Wired magazine. The article describes how Hepner photographs images produced by programming "eight spinning LEDs [to] flash based on the binary code of each character in a tweet."

Graduates acknowledge the crowd's applause during PSU LV commencment.

Celebrate Penn State Lehigh Valley’s Commencement with #PSULVgrad

4/28/15

Penn State Lehigh Valley is gearing up for commencement on May 9. The campus is once again using #psulvgrad on its Twitter, Instagram and Facebook platforms throughout the weeks leading up to commencement and during the May 9 event to celebrate the festivities.

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