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Twitter host CASS event: Twitter rape threats and the Discourse of Online Misogyny

Posted on November 27 2014 by Mark McGlashan and Claire Hardaker

Twitter’s public policy team will tomorrow host an event organised by the Discourse of Online Misogyny (DOOM) project team at CASS. The team consists of Dr. Claire Hardaker, Lecturer in Corpus Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, and Mark McGlashan, Senior Research Associate on the DOOM project.

The event assembles a number of key stakeholders drawn from Twitter’s global public policy team, law enforcement, the prosecution service, NGOs, and academia (law, psychology, computing, linguistics) to discuss public concerns about online abuse. At the event, the DOOM project team will talk about their work on rape threats made using Twitter and how their unique methods enabled analysis of how people made rape threats using language as well as how abusive social networks are formed online.

The DOOM team will stress the need for corpus-based approaches in the research and development of tools and methods for investigating and tackling online abuse.

For more information, contact the Lancaster University Press Office:

Email: pressoffice@lancaster.ac.uk

Call: +44 (0)1524 594120

Tweet: @LancasterPress

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Posted in DOOM, News | Tagged Discourse of Online Misogyny, DOOM, online misogyny, twitter

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