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Chapter published in 'Social Media Reconsidered'

27 September 2017

I was very happy to recently receive a copy in the post of Social Media Reconsidered: Proceedings of the Symposium on Social Media , edited by Bouziane Zaid. This proceedings was from a symposium at Al Akhawayn University in March 2015 and contains a re-publication of the chapter I originally wrote for Rebecca Lind's book...

Chapter published on 'Social Media and Human Rights Advocacy'

27 September 2017

I'm delighted to announce the publication of The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights , edited by Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord and for which I have contributed a chapter: 'Social Media and Human Rights Advocacy.' The rise of social media has seen its concomitant celebration as a ‘liberation technology,’...

Ethics of Big Data group to explore 'Ethics of a Data-Driven Society' in 2016-17

13 March 2017

I'm delighted to announce - together with Anne Alexander (CRASSH), Clare Dyer-Smith (Cambridge Big Data SRI), Richard Milne ( Institute of Public Health/PHG Foundation), Julia Powles ( Faculty of Law/Computer Laboratory), and Jat Singh ( Computing Laboratory) - that our funding for the Ethics of Big Data CRASSH Research...

Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency CRASSH Research Group to be launched

13 March 2017

I'm delighted to announce that, in collaboration with Olivier Driessens (Sociology) and Alfred Moore (CRASSH), we will launch a new Research Group on the Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency in 2016-17. The group will explore the ambivalent effects of ideals and technologies of transparency. Transparency is commonly...

Grant awarded to Ethics of Big Data to explore 'Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Systems and Machine Learning in the Digital Society'

13 March 2017

Our Ethics of Big Data team is delighted to announce that we were awarded a grant from Cambridge's School of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Support Fund to explore the 'Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Systems and Machine Learning in the Digital Society.' Here's how we described what we are doing in this...

Co-authored chapter published on 'Special Procedures in the Digital Age'

25 February 2017

Together with Thomas Probert, I wrote a chapter on ' Special Procedures in the Digital Age ' for the new book, The United Nations Special Procedures System , edited by Aoife Nolan, Rosa Freedman and Thérèse Murphy. Here's the abstract : Drawing on the research we contributed to Special Rapporteur Christof Heyns’ thematic...

Article published in Journal of Human Rights

25 February 2017

The Journal of Human Rights published my article, ' Source credibility as “information subsidy”: Strategies for successful NGO journalism at Mexican human rights NGOs ,' as part of a special issue on human rights in the news edited by John Pollock and Mort Winston. It's a great collection! Here's the abstract : This...

Interviewed by Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast

24 February 2017

I had a lot of fun being interviewed by the great team at Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast . Our topic was, 'What's Wrong with Fake News?' Baby Axel was there too, and you can hear him gurgling in the background! Declarations is the new, student-run podcast at CGHR. It features a number of fascinating interviews with...

The Whistle featured in Research Horizons article

24 February 2017

The Whistle was featured in the October 2016 issue of Research Horizons, which had a spotlight on the Digital Society. Our project is in great company with a series of articles on research related to the digital society at Cambridge. Journalist Louise Walsh did an excellent job of explaining what we are trying to do with...

Workshop on Anonymity, Identity and Credibility: Challenges of Using Social Media Data for Research

4 December 2016

In May 2013, I ran a workshop as part of my participation in the Social Media Knowledge Exchange programme on ' Anonymity, Identity and Credibility: Challenges of Using Social Media Data for Research.' Arun Karnad, Research Officer with the Learning Technology and Innovation team at the LSE, wrote a great summary of the...

Chapter published in 'Social Media Reconsidered'

Chapter published on 'Social Media and Human Rights Advocacy'

Ethics of Big Data group to explore 'Ethics of a Data-Driven Society' in 2016-17

Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency CRASSH Research Group to be launched

Grant awarded to Ethics of Big Data to explore 'Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Systems and Machine Learning in the Digital Society'

Co-authored chapter published on 'Special Procedures in the Digital Age'

Article published in Journal of Human Rights

Interviewed by Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast

The Whistle featured in Research Horizons article

Workshop on Anonymity, Identity and Credibility: Challenges of Using Social Media Data for Research

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