Recently, our team has been working with the IT directors and network administrators for four sovereign Native nations and one rural county in northern New Mexico to try to extend middle-mile infrastructure across and through political jurisdictions. One challenge that our team has encountered pertains to the difficulty in locating Read more…
Our work on Twitter during the 2018 midterm election and how social media campaigns like #NativeVote influenced the representation of Native people was published in the Indian Country Today.
Our publication titled Complex, Contemporary, and Unconventional: Characterizing the Tweets of the #NativeVote Movement and Native American Candidates through the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections has received the CSCW 2019 Diversity and Inclusion Award. This paper is authored by Morgan Vigil-Hayes, Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst and Marisa Elena Duarte, and was published Read more…
Our work on PuebloConnect has been featured in the Technology Trends section July/August 2019 Social Work Today.
Our work was featured in an article titled“Critical Connections: Computer science professor Elizabeth Belding works to advance social causes by bringing WiFi-powered web access to underserved communities.” UCSB Convergence Magazine, Spring 2019, pages 14-16
Northern Arizona University has published a great article about our work. Please read the article Bridging the ‘digital divide’: NAU researcher using innovative technology, social science to improve lives in underserved communities.