Illustration of a pro stock trader working at a larger computer and a novice receiving tips from their cell phone.

More than meme stocks

Research by Terry College accounting professor Frank Heflin found social media can positively affect the stock market and benefit retail investors.

Carolina Salge

A new way to think about bots

Salge and co-authors — Elena Karahanna of UGA and Jason Thatcher of the University of Colorado-Boulder (formerly of Temple University) — recently won best paper awards from the Association for Information Systems, the academic association for information systems scholars, and from MIS Quarterly, a premier information systems journal, for their investigation into the ways bots impact the information ecosystem online.