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Fuentes-Bautista to Kick Off Spring Faculty Colloquium Series

Martha Fuentes-Bautista will start off the spring semester’s Faculty Colloquium Series on Feb. 6 in a talk titled “Rebuilding Local Public Spheres: Mapping Information Needs of Communities in the Digital Transition.”

Fuentes-Bautista is an assistant professor of public policy and communication. She conducts research on the social and policy implications of information and communication technologies, with a particular focus on how those technologies exacerbate or alleviate social inequalities.

A recent Faculty Research/Healey Endowment grant is supporting data collection and analysis concerning the role that local broadband interventions are having on the ability of western Massachusetts communities to expand universal service. Fuentes-Bautista’s findings will inform state and federal programs charged with advancing broadband coverage.

This and all lectures in the series will be in Thompson 620, from noon to 1 p.m. The talks are free, and brown bag lunches are welcome.