Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The crowds descended upon Arlington, Virginia for the 80th annual meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology . I attended this meeting to learn more about ASIS&T , including its special interest groups . Also attending with me was former ODU Computer Science student and current Los Alamos National Laboratory librarian Valentina Neblitt-Jones . Shawn and Valentina - ODU and Los Alamos National Lab #asist2017 pic.twitter.com/0hf6qvM5js — Valentina (@vneblitt) November 1, 2017 The ASIS&T team had organized a wonderful collection of panels, papers, and other activities for us to engage in. Plenary Speakers Richard Marks: Head of the PlayStation Magic Lab at Sony Interactive Entertainment Richard Marks talked about the importance of play to the human experience. He covered innovations at the Playstation Magic Lab in an effort to highlight possible futures of human-computer interaction. The goal of the laboratory is "experience engin

A photo of me inside "The Yellow House" - The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society On June 5, 2017, I started work as an Intern at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under the supervision of Dr.  Rob Faris , the Research Director for the Berkman Klein Center. This was a wonderful opportunity to conduct news media related research, and my second consecutive Summer research at Harvard. The Berkman Klein Center is an interdisciplinary research center that researches the means to tackle some of the biggest challenges on the Internet. Located in a yellow house at the Harvard Law School, the Center is committed to studying the development, dynamics, norms and standards of cyberspace. The center has produced many significant contributions such as the review of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and the founding of the DPLA (Digital Public Library of America). During the first week of my Inter