Gilly Leshed is a senior lecturer in the Department of Information Science at Cornell. Her teaching and research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), in which she uses quantitative and qualitative methods and technology design to examine how individuals and groups accomplish tasks and socialize and the roles information technology plays in these interactions. She is particularly interested in designing interactive technologies that empower marginalized populations. Some of her works include visually-impaired users of social media, smallholder coffee farmers in Latin America, and Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. She is the Director of the Master of Professional Studies in Information Science, and is the faculty supervisor of the Design & Tech Initiative Project Team.
Xenophobia Meter Project
Event Overview
XMP has two primary goals. The first is to inform academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the public on levels and changes in xenophobic social media speech by creating a free-to-use website with a user-friendly UI/UX, an alert notification system, tailored sources, reports, and shareable data in multiple language contexts. Second, it aims to shame governments that ignore and engage in xenophobic speech.
XMP is a modest response to the rapidly growing problem of anti-immigrant hate speech on the internet and governments’ repeated refusal to govern it effectively. XMP believes that identifying, labeling, and shaming xenophobic speech in a public and easily accessible format will increase public understanding of the problem and show allyship to immigrant communities who endure xenophobic hate.
Co-principal investigators on the XMP include Beth Lyon from Cornell Law and Gilly Leshed from the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. Additional collaborators include Marten van Schijndel from the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences, Bao Kham Chau from the University of Virginia School of Law, Matthew Groh from MIT Media Lab, and Joshua Joseph from MIT Quest for Intelligence. Pranoto Iskandar from the Institute for Migrant Rights and Lily Pagan from Google served as consultants on the project.
This event is part of our Migrations series, sponsored by Cornell’s Migrations initiative.
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What You'll Learn
- The relationship between social media and xenophobic public sentiment
- The methods that enable scholars to analyze the prevalence of xenophobic discourse on social media
- How the Xenophobia Meter Project aims to address policymakers who ignore or participate in hate speech against immigrants
- What scholars can do to monitor and challenge these trends, and how the public can participate
Speakers
Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor and Chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the Cornell University ILR School, as well as a professor by courtesy in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching focus on projects that examine the implementation of immigrant worker rights as well as the interdisciplinary study of the forces that shape migration flows and migrant experiences. Dr. Gleeson is also engaged in various collaborative projects that examine the implementation of immigrant worker rights.
Dr. Gleeson is the author of five books based on her work; the most recent is “Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America” (University of Texas Press, 2019, edited with Xóchitl Bada). Dr. Gleeson holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously on the faculty of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as Vice Provost for International Affairs. Her research includes work on international development, land use and distribution, social mobilization, agrarian societies, and critical ethnography. Since 2010, Dr. Wolford has served as the Faculty Director for Economic Development at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, where she co-led CARE-Cornell and Oxfam-Cornell collaborations. She was also co-leader of a three-year theme project on contested global landscapes at Cornell’s Institute for the Social Sciences. As Cornell’s Vice Provost for International Affairs, Dr. Wolford focuses on strengthening the university’s many global connections and interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Migrations Grand Challenge. She holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in economics and international development from McGill University.
Gilly Leshed is a senior lecturer in the Department of Information Science at Cornell. Her teaching and research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), in which she uses quantitative and qualitative methods and technology design to examine how individuals and groups accomplish tasks and socialize and the roles information technology plays in these interactions. She is particularly interested in designing interactive technologies that empower marginalized populations. Some of her works include visually-impaired users of social media, smallholder coffee farmers in Latin America, and Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. She is the Director of the Master of Professional Studies in Information Science, and is the faculty supervisor of the Design & Tech Initiative Project Team.
Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor and Chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the Cornell University ILR School, as well as a professor by courtesy in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching focus on projects that examine the implementation of immigrant worker rights as well as the interdisciplinary study of the forces that shape migration flows and migrant experiences. Dr. Gleeson is also engaged in various collaborative projects that examine the implementation of immigrant worker rights.
Dr. Gleeson is the author of five books based on her work; the most recent is “Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America” (University of Texas Press, 2019, edited with Xóchitl Bada). Dr. Gleeson holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously on the faculty of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Wendy Wolford is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as Vice Provost for International Affairs. Her research includes work on international development, land use and distribution, social mobilization, agrarian societies, and critical ethnography. Since 2010, Dr. Wolford has served as the Faculty Director for Economic Development at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, where she co-led CARE-Cornell and Oxfam-Cornell collaborations. She was also co-leader of a three-year theme project on contested global landscapes at Cornell’s Institute for the Social Sciences. As Cornell’s Vice Provost for International Affairs, Dr. Wolford focuses on strengthening the university’s many global connections and interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Migrations Grand Challenge. She holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in economics and international development from McGill University.
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XMP has two primary goals. The first is to inform academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the public on levels and changes in xenophobic social media speech by creating a free-to-use website with a user-friendly UI/UX, an alert notification system, tailored sources, reports, and shareable data in multiple language contexts. Second, it aims to shame governments that ignore and engage in xenophobic speech.
XMP is a modest response to the rapidly growing problem of anti-immigrant hate speech on the internet and governments’ repeated refusal to govern it effectively. XMP believes that identifying, labeling, and shaming xenophobic speech in a public and easily accessible format will increase public understanding of the problem and show allyship to immigrant communities who endure xenophobic hate.
Co-principal investigators on the XMP include Beth Lyon from Cornell Law and Gilly Leshed from the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. Additional collaborators include Marten van Schijndel from the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences, Bao Kham Chau from the University of Virginia School of Law, Matthew Groh from MIT Media Lab, and Joshua Joseph from MIT Quest for Intelligence. Pranoto Iskandar from the Institute for Migrant Rights and Lily Pagan from Google served as consultants on the project.
This event is part of our Migrations series, sponsored by Cornell’s Migrations initiative.
RESOURCES / NEXT STEPS
Cornell Migrations
Mellon Just Futures
Data Driven: New Research Puts Spotlight on Migrants’ Rightshttps://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K020722/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell