Upcoming event

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

18:00-20:00

The New Transmission: Moving beyond hate speech, validation, and coercion

, Lecture Theatre 5, (BS G.34), Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

Lexi Webster delivers a linguistics research seminar, presenting findings from two specialised corpora:


Comprising over 60 million words, the dataset represents the first large-scale capture of gender-variant online communication. This new evidence offers fresh perspectives and enables critical thinking on current debates around gender, including implications for free speech, legislation and public policy

The floor will be open for a Q&A session after the talk.

Event contact Lexi Webster · Lexi.Webster@mmu.ac.uk