Fighting hate speech. Snek.
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Posted on February 3, 2017
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- Academica references and links an article from The Globe and Mail quoting Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The piece, about the growing discussion of Islamophobia in the wake of the Quebec City mosque shooting, highlights his research and mentions the SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every day) project against hate speech, led by Venkatesh.
- NovaPlanet.com writes about Snek, a video game created by Pippin Barr, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts.