CASS

ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science

Tag: social media

  • 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…

    Continue Reading

  • 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.…

    Continue Reading

  • , ,

    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…

    Continue Reading

  • CASS represented at Winter Reception of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism

    On Wednesday, 16th December, Paul Iganski and Abe Sweiry attended the Winter Reception of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism in the Terrace Pavilion at the Houses of Parliament. Attendees heard speeches from John Mann MP, the chair of the Group, Commander Dean Haydon from the Metropolitan Police Service and Baroness Williams of Trafford, Parliamentary…

    Continue Reading

  • CASS on Weibo

    There are now more ways to connect with the centre online. CASS is pleased to announce that we now have a Weibo account in addition to our Twitter account. Please follow us on Weibo for project updates in Chinese, and to get first glimpses at all of the CASS news that might be of particular interest…

    Continue Reading

CASS Briefings

Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.

Read More

Recent Post

Tags

brazil claire hardaker elena semino islam Islamophobia learner language metaphor metaphor in end of life care paul baker spoken BNC2014 tony mcenery Trinity Lancaster Spoken Learner Corpus trolling twitter vaclav brezina

Categories