Qixuan Wang, with preferred name Glede, is a first year undergraduate student at Stanford. She comes from Shenzhen China, from a southern city next to Hong Kong. She is a queer woman who is looking to pursue a Women and Gender’s Studies major and Data Science minor. She enjoys cosplay, tennis and, surprisingly, social distancing. She cannot wait to join the Life in Quarantine team and make more voices across the world heard.
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The German-Hebrew Literary Conversation project is meant to create an online platform which traces the complex relations, intersections and interactions occurring between these two literary traditions and the creative products emerging from this unique encounter. The project wishes to study and document the history of this ongoing conversation while at the same time functioning as a meeting point for current writers, translators, artists and researchers worldwide working and thinking in and on the movement between these languages.
Free Speech, Regulation, and Democracy in the Digital Age
Free Speech, Regulation, and Democracy in the Digital Age
Following the assumption that the IT-blog sphere represents an avant-garde of technologically- and socially-interested experts, Jens Pohlmann and researchers at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities present a research platform to investigate IT-blogs’ impact on public discussion of matters situated at the intersection of technology and society. Using text and metadata from about 400 IT-blogs from Germany and the U.S. (IT-Blog corpus), we can now study and compare IT-blog sphere discussions of digital policy with the discourses of traditional media settings (newspaper corpus) and policy discussions (policy corpus). Digital Humanities research methods such as assisted close reading, distant reading processes, and the analysis of communication and reference networks will allow for investigations regarding free speech issues, privacy laws, upload filters, AI, or copyright legislation in the digital age. Our goal is to identify the most influential stakeholders in each respective subfield, their communication strategies, and the arguments they bring forward in order to bridge the divide between Germany and the U.S. in matters of digital policy.
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