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17:00:00 - 18:00:00,
Wednesday 30 October, 2013
About
This seminar will examine ongoing research on a subset of hate speech, “dangerous speech,” that has a special capacity to catalyse violence. It describes an innovative framework to identify such speech, which was adapted for use in the yearlong Umati project – in which Kenyan monitors scrubbed their country’s online spaces, for hate speech and dangerous speech. They assembled a remarkable dataset, which informed attempts to di-minish the force of dangerous speech. The seminar will also explore how a similar approach can be adapted to other normative climates.
Data Dump to delete
Speakers
- Name: Susan Benesch
- Affiliation: World Policy Institute, New York
- Role:
- URL: http://www.worldpolicy.org/susan-benesch
- Bio: