Michaelmas Term 2015
Researching Global Labour Movements: Where do Digital Methods Fit in?
Dr Anne Alexander (Digital Humanities Network, University of Cambridge)
Dr Jenny Chan (Contemporary China Studies, University of Oxford)
A Digital Methods Development Workshop organised by the Researching (with) Social Media Reading Group and the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network in collaboration with the Dying for an iPhone project
Oct 19, 2015, 11:30am-3:30pm
Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's Wars & the Power of Open Source
Maks Czuperski (Atlantic Council)
Elliot Higgins (Brown Moses)
Co-hosted with the Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Oct 27, 2015, 4-5pm
Lent Term 2016
Digital Vigilantism and the Weaponisation of Visibility on Social Media
Dr Daniel Trottier (Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
January 20th, 2-3:30pm
Humanitarian Technologies: Examining Social Media in Disaster Recovery
Dr Mirca Madianou (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths)
Dr Jonathan Ong (Media and Communication, Leicester)
February 11th, 2-3:30pm
Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights
Christoph Koettl (Senior Analyst, Amnesty International)
Co-hosted with Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights
March 8th, 4-5pm
Easter Term 2016
Technology, Transparency and Social Responsibility
Natasa Milic-Frayling (Professor and Chair of Data Science at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham)
April 25th, 2-3:30pm