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  • FireAnt is making headlines!

    FireAnt, a tool for extracting, visualising and exporting social media data, is making headlines! The tool, developed by Claire Hardaker and Laurence Anthony at CASS, has been noted by the Daily Mail for it’s abilities to “hunt down terrorists and trolls”. We’re delighted that FireAnt is being recognised for its capabilities in social media data…

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  • Ants On Fire

    Being an honorary research fellow at CASS is not only a great honor but a great pleasure. In December of 2015, my initial three-year fellowship at CASS was extended for a further three years, and this introduced the possibility of returning to Lancaster for a sabbatical-length seven-week research stay between February and March of 2016.…

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    FireAnt has officially launched!

    Laurence Anthony and Claire Hardaker first introduced FireAnt at the CL2015 conference. In their talk, Claire explained that her work with the Discourse of Online Misogyny (DOOM) project had led her to realise that when working with Twitter data, you fast encounter a large array of problems: how to easily collect data, how to arrange…

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    FireAnt Launch Event

    We will be running a launch event and workshop for a new software tool that we have created called FireAnt. The event and workshop will be held from 13:00 to 17:00 on Monday 22nd February 2016 here at Lancaster University. FireAnt was created by Laurence Anthony as part of the 2015 ESRC-funded CASS-affiliated DOOM project on…

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