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2024-01-18 Alhamdulillah! Our manuscript titled "Towards Designing a Question-Answering Chatbot for Online News: Understanding Perspectives and Questions" has been accepted in the ACM CHI 2024.
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2023-10-7 Alhamdulillah! Our manuscript titled "Not all Fake News is Written: A Dataset and Analysis of Misleading Video Headlines" has been accepted in the EMNLP 2023.
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2023-05-20 Alhamdulillah! Our manuscript titled "Semantic-based Unsupervised Framing Analysis (SUFA): A Novel Approach for Computational Framing Analysis" has been selected as the Top Method Paper in the Communication Theory and Methodology Division Competition in AEJMC 2023.
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2023-05-02 Md Naimul Hoque has been awarded a Doctoral Student Research Award (DSRA) to study the future of news engagement.
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2023-04-05 Our member Mohammad Ali has received the Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2023 to conduct a study on Computational Framing Analysis.
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2023-03-29 Naeemul Hassan has received the Exemplary Researcher award at the 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration.
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2023-03-03 Naeemul Hassan will talk about Health Misinformation on a webinar organized by National Library of Medicine (NNLM).
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2023-02-16 Our member Saransh Grover has received the Dr. Frank G. Burke Endowed Graduate Research Award to conduct a study on Crowdsourced Fact-checking in TikTok.
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2023-02-01 Naeemul Hassan discusses the potential of computational journalism in a UMD Special Presentation- Data Journalism: Using Data to Tell Impactful Stories.
https://youtu.be/LiJZskBwVcc
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2022-10-13 CJLab arranged an open house.
https://bit.ly/cjlab2022
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2022-10-12 Alhamdulillah! Our manuscript titled "A Survey of Computational Framing Analysis Approaches" has been accepted in the EMNLP 2022.
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2022-05-05 Our member Yoo Yeon Sung has received the Doctoral Student Research Award (DSRA) to study Detection of Misleading Videos.
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2022-04-01 Farhana Uddin is joining our lab as an iSchool/CMNS undergraduate student from Spring 2022.
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2022-02-11 Alhamdulillah! Our manuscript titled "Understanding the Narratives of Misinformation about Muslims" has been accepted in the CHI 2022 workshop- Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI
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2022-01-21 Mayukha Kindi is joining our lab as a CS undergraduate student from Spring 2022.
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2021-11-01 Saransh Grover is joining our lab as an iSchool MS student from Fall 2022.
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2021-07-01 National Science Foundation has granted an REU supplement award.
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2020-12-23 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Exploring the Tensions between the Owners and the Drivers of Uber Cars in Urban Bangladesh" has been accepted in CSCW 2021.
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2020-12-12 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Does Clickbait Actually Attract More Clicks? Three Clickbait studies you must read" has been accepted in CHI 2021.
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2020-10-21 Alhamdulillah! Our manuscript titled "Automatically Assessing Quality of Online Health Articles" has been accepted for the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
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2020-08-29 Alhamdulillah! Our short paper titled "ClaimViz: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Verifying Factual Claims" has been accepted in IEEE VIS 2021.
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2020-07-24 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Combating Misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and Responsibilities as Perceived by Journalists, Fact-checkers, and Users" has been accepted at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
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2020-06-17 Alhamdulillah! Naeemul Hassan has received a teaching innovation grant from the University of Maryland provost's office.
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2020-06-17 Alhamdulillah! We have received a grant from NSF to keep online platforms safe from video clickbaits.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1949649&HistoricalAwards=false
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2020-06-16 Yoo yeon Sung (Sophie) is joining our lab as a new iSchool Ph.D. student from Fall 2020.
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2020-05-28 Naeemul Hassan gave a talk in the 37th HCIL Symposium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO-qFAk6Tzs
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2020-05-19 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Varying amounts of information in health news headlines can affect user selection and interactivity" has been accepted in AEJMC 2020
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2020-02-27 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "A Benchmark Dataset of Check-worthy Factual Claims" has been accepted at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
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2020-02-15 Naeemul Hassan will be in a panel discussing "Fighting Disinformation to Save Democracy".
https://umdischool.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=45fbc6d3e05ebd93369ce542e8f2322d.249
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2019-11-15 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Towards Automated Sexual Violence Report Tracking" has been accepted at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)
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2019-11-09 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Understanding the Challenges for Bangladeshi Women to Participate in #MeToo Movement" has been accepted in ACM GROUP 2020
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2019-09-10 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Examining the Role of Clickbait Headlines to Engage Readers with Reliable Health-related Information" has been accepted in AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2019
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2019-09-10 Alhamdulillah! Our paper titled "Towards Domain-Specific Characterization of Misinformation" has been accepted in AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2019
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