Assistant Professor of Information in the iSchool at the University of Texas at Austin

Amelia Acker

Amelia Acker is an information scientist who researches data literacy, metadata, and information infrastructures that support long-term cultural memory and digital archives. She is currently an assistant professor of information in the iSchool at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests focus on the emergence, standardization, and preservation of new forms of data and metadata created with mobile information and communication technologies. At Data and Society, Amelia worked with the Media Manipulation initiative developing methods for tracking misinformation and disinformation campaigns with social media metadata.

All Work

  • report
    Data & Society
    Data Craft analyzes how bad actors manipulate metadata to create effective disinformation campaigns and provides tips for researchers and technology companies trying to spot this “data craft.” Read more
    November 2018
  • blog post
    Media Manipulation Blog
    How can we trace the spread of disinformation by tracking metadata? Data & Society Research Affiliate Amelia Acker explains. "One way of more fully understanding the data craftwork of disinformation on social media platfor... Read on Media Manipulation Blog
    July 2018