Research Projects
Digital Inequalities in the Heartland: Exploring the information Security Experiences of Marginalized Internet Users Principal Investigator: William Staples Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Period: 2017 - 2019 Status: Completed Project Summary: Bill Staples, Professor and Chair of Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center, and Warren (Perry) Alexander, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, received a Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace NSF EAGER award to explore the information security experiences of marginalized internet users who rely on public libraries for broadband internet access. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742815 ![]() |