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In April, I presented a paper at the Society for Latin American Studies' 50th Anniversary Conference at Birkbeck, University of London. The paper, 'Human Rights NGOs’ Access to the Public Sphere in Mexico: Collaborations with and Circumnavigations of the Mainstream Media,' was on an interesting panel on media and public...

In February, I participated in the #NSMNSS (New Social Media, New Social Science?) network's workshop on the ethics of social media research. I gave a short case study overview of my research as concerns the ethics of verification, particularly with respect to security risks and to hierarchies of power. At the workshop, I...

I presented two papers at the 2014 International Communication Association 's conference in Seattle. The first was ' The Use of Social Media Information at Advocacy Organizations: The Evidence Model Versus the Engagement Model' on a panel entitled ' Spaces of Contestation: Information, the Press, Advocacy, and Elites' in...

In June, I participated in the inaugural Critical Coding course put on by Cambridge's Digital Humanities Network and Computer Laboratory . Our background reading included the Critical Engineering Manifesto , which includes the statement: " The greater the dependence on a technology the greater the need to study and expose...