Press Coverage

I School faculty, students, and scholars in the news.

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The Guardian Notes David Bamman’s Findings on Representation of Women in Literature

Feb 19, 2018

Analysis from I School Professor David Bamman finds proportion of female authors and characters fell after 19th century, with male authors...

Big Data Reveals the Shrinking Role of Women in Novels

Feb 14, 2018

Professor David Bamman’s machine-learning algorithm analyzed the presentation of gender in more than 100,000 novels.

Winning Berkeley I School Research Finds Social Media Users Actually Wind Down, Not Up

Jan 11, 2018

Contrary to conventional wisdom, people tend to wind down rather than whip themselves into a frenzy while browsing Facebook and Twitter, according to...

Peter Rowland (left) and Steve Trush spent months examining CRIMS. - Photo by Darryl Barnes for East Bay Express

Berkeley I School Students Map Oakland’s Police Data

Jan 3, 2018

A team of UC Berkeley School of Information students is helping Oakland’s privacy commission figure out if ICE agents are accessing OPD computer...

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Geoff Nunberg’s Word of the Year: “Tribalism”

Dec 6, 2017

As Fissures Between Political Camps Grow, 'Tribalism' Emerges As The Word Of 2017

New York Times Praises Alumni Project iNaturalist

Dec 6, 2017

In 2008, Ken-ichi Ueda and several other students at the University of California, Berkeley, founded iNaturalist as an online community for...

Tech Press Touts Apple’s Pop Up Archive Acquisition

Dec 5, 2017

Apple recently acquired Pop Up Archive, an Oakland-based start-up founded by Berkeley School of Information alumnae Anne Wooten and Bailey Smith. The...