by uoladmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Digital
By Dr Naomi Wells With many social media platforms now entering their second decade, the ‘new media’ label has become increasingly redundant. Nevertheless, at least within the humanities, social media research continues to be treated as a novelty or curiosity, even...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 10, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, and her ‘Christchurch Call’ campaign to curtail the spread of online extremism is proving to be a breath of fresh air in the current world of global politics, says Dr Kiran Hassan, a research fellow at the...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 22, 2019 | Digital, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
MPhil/PhD student Francielle Carpenedo, on her work at the Institute of Modern Languages Research and affiliation with its ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ project. In September 2017, I was awarded an MPhil/PhD studentship as part of the Arts and...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 17, 2018 | Digital, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
A combination of fragile democracies, autocratic regimes and weak civil societies has put internet access and social media in Africa at serious risk, says Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, part of the School of Advanced...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 9, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Events, Interviews, The Social Scholar, Training and Research
This month at the Social Scholar seminar we will be joined by Dr Nick Barratt, director of collections and engagement at Senate House Library. The medieval historian, who will be talking about personal heritage and the use and limitations of digital resources, has...
