Assistant Professor
College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence | Information School
Hometown: St. Paul, MN/Sebec, ME
Jacob Thebault-Spieker is an Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Virginia Tech, and earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota.
His work focuses on information gaps that get produced in online communities, with a particular eye towards differences between rural and urban areas. He both studies the mechanisms that underpin these information gaps, and designs new kinds of software tools to address these problems.
Talks:
Information Gaps, Rural Digital Footprints, Content Ecosystems, and AI
This talk will focus on information gaps in online social platforms, what this means for rural communities’ digital footprints, and implications for AI tools within the state of Wisconsin.