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Profile: Junior Challenge Panel Member Mark McGlashan
Each year, two early researchers are appointed to the Challenge Panel, where they benefit both from the contact with senior colleagues and from the interdisciplinary nature of the panel’s working environment. We’re pleased to introduce the first 2013 appointment, Lancaster University PhD student Mark McGlashan. Here’s what Mark has to say about himself and his work: I am…
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Beyond ‘auto-complete search forms’: Notes on the reaction to ‘Why do white people have thin lips?’
As Paul Baker reported yesterday, a paper that we co-authored entitled “‘Why do white people have thin lips?’ Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms” (published 2013 in Critical Discourse Studies 10:2) has recently been garnering some media attention, being cited in the Mail Online and the 18 May 2013 print issue of The…
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In the press: Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes
The findings of a paper published by myself and Amanda Potts on the implications of Google’s auto-complete search function have been reported in Mail Online and The Telegraph (18 May 2013). The paper examined what happens when the beginnings of questions about different identity groups are entered into Google’s search form. For example, typing “why…
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John Sinclair lecture: “Primed for Violence? A corpus analysis of jihadist discourse”
It was a great honour to give this year’s Sinclair Lecture at Birmingham University. I have long been an admirer of John’s work – there are many ideas he developed that are well worth critically engaging with. So to be asked to give a talk in his memory and honour was a challenge I happily…
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Call for Participation: ESRC Summer School in Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences
We are very pleased to issue the first call for participation for our ESRC Summer School in Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, which will take place at Lancaster University 16th-19th July 2013. This event takes place under the aegis of CASS, a new ESRC research centre bringing a new method in the study of language – the…
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Profile: Chief Project Ambassador Cary Cooper
We are very proud to introduce Prof. Sir Cary Cooper, the Centre’s Chief Project Ambassador. Prof. Sir Cooper is a Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health in Lancaster University’s highly acclaimed Management School, and Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, and thus has a broad experience of the different disciplines within the Centre’s…
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CASS Director Tony McEnery to be panelist at “Community Question Time – Islam and the Media”
On Thursday 25th April, Tony McEnery will join Dr. Sara Silvestri (City University London), Ahmad Bostan (Unity FM), and Simon Jones (Director of Communications, Policy and Performance at London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) at Regent’s Park Mosque to speak on the topic of Islam and the Media. This event is the sixth in a series of Question Time style…
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Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British Press
A new volume is now available from CASS investigators Paul Baker and Tony McEnery, along with Edge Hill University Senior Lecturer and Lancaster University alumnus Costas Gabrielatos: Baker, P., Gabrielatos , C. & McEnery, A. (2013). Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. “Is the…
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Opening of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
It is with great pleasure that I’m able to issue our first news update from inside the brand new ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, now open at Lancaster University. People The CASS team has been steadily growing with a series of recent appointments. Joining the In February, Amanda Potts and Vaclav Brezina were appointed…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.