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In this virtual talk, Professor Gilly Leshed will present the Xenophobia Meter Project (XMP), a cross-institutional collaboration that is responding to the rise of radical, racist, and nationalist politics. This global phenomenon has incited an unwitting habituation of the public toward hate-mongering against immigrants as part of normal political campaigns in many jurisdictions.
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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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’ Rights