EUPRIO Webinar on Hate Speech

EUPRIO, the European Association of Communication Professionals in Higher Education, organized a webinar on Hate Speech to help higher education institutions and their communication practitioners to cope with hate speech. The speakers, Petra Kralj Novak and Bjorn Wassink presented the technology for hate speech detection and models of reflection and coping with conflicts. Petra Kralj Novak focused on IMSyPP project results. The EUPRIO Webinar on Hate Speech was held online on November 3, 2021. https://www.euprio.eu/project/workshop/hate-speech

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Round Table: Regulation of Inappropriate Speech on Social Networks

Dr. Petra Kralj Novak will participate as a panelist in a Round Table: Regulation of Inappropriate Speech on Social Networks, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. The round table will take place on Thursday, May 20th 2021 at 17h on Zoom. Okrogla miza: Regulacija neprimernega govora na družbenih omrežjih https://www.facebook.com/events/802663004015886/

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Seminar “Le forme del falso”

A seminar entitled “le forme del falso” was held on March 25-26.The seminar was intended to reflect on the “power of the false” (citing the title of Umberto Ecco’s essay). In order to analyze the many forms of falsehood in history, we focused on common points and differences, from the past to the present.The seminar was organised by Istituto Studi Avanzati UNIBO, Marina Caporale was one of the scientific Committee. Read more

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IMSyPP on Slovenian national television

The coordinator of the IMSyPP project Dr. Petra Kralj Novak was interviewed about the findings of the project for a weekly news show Studio City, which is aired Mondays at 21:00 on the first program of the Slovenian national television. Her interview was on air on February 22, 2021, in the scope of a hate speech awareness-raising piece. The show is available in the national television's archive on the following link: https://www.rtvslo.si/4d/arhiv/174755909?s=tv (starting at minute 18:35).

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Interview for online magazine moskisvet.com

An interview with the coordinator of the IMSyPP project Petra Kralj Novak is published on moskisvet.com (a Slovenian online portal) today (February 12, 2021). The interview is about hate speech and the findings of the IMSyPP project in the first year of our project. The focus is on on-line hate speech in Slovenia.

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February 9: Safer internet day

TextGain's new branch Textgain Academy is organizing a series of webinars on Safer Internet Day (February 9). Registration is free of charge. https://www.textgain.com/sid2021/

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