CuRAtOR project – School of Computer Science

Wikileaks founder to speak at conference

February 19, 2015Marie DanielsEvents / School news

Controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been invited to speak by the organisers of this year’s British Human Computer Interaction Conference to be held in Lincoln. The previous editor-in-chief of the website WikiLeaks, which Assange also co-founded in 2006 after an earlier career in hacking and programming, will appear by video link on 17th July,…

What can the Twitter storm over Benefits Street teach us?

July 28, 2014Marie DanielsResearch / Social media

A new research project will investigate how social media can play its part in both inciting discrimination against and building understanding of marginalised communities. The CuRAtOR (Challenging online feaR And OtheRing) project, led by the University of Lincoln, UK, will explore where and how representations of certain minority groups by government and broadcast media can…