  	{"id":9329,"date":"2026-01-12T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:33:04","slug":"rich-gazan-presents-at-2026-hicss-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/rich-gazan-presents-at-2026-hicss-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Gazan presents at 2026 HICSS Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Rich Gazan presented <em>Thanking the Algorithm: Discovering Prosocial Communities Through YouTube Music Recommendation Pathways<\/em> at the 2026 Hawai\u02bbi International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), held January 5-9 in L\u0101hain\u0101, Maui. In its 59th year, the HICSS conference is a gathering of researchers from diverse disciplines who study the social and technological aspects of information systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper was part of the Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack within the Digital and Social Media track, and attracted participants from a range of disciplines represented within Library &amp; Information Science and the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Communication and Information Sciences, which Rich now chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Rich Gazan presented Thanking the Algorithm: Discovering Prosocial Communities Through YouTube Music Recommendation Pathways at the 2026 Hawai\u02bbi International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), held January 5-9 in L\u0101hain\u0101, Maui. In its 59th year, the HICSS conference is a gathering of researchers from diverse disciplines who study the social and technological aspects of information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9333,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions\/9333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}