Claudia von Vacano is the Executive Director of the D-Lab and the Digital Humanities at Berkeley, and is on the boards of the Social Science Matrix and Berkeley Center for New Media. Her expertise is in organizational theory and behavior and in educational and language policy implementation.
She will be presenting on the work of the D-Lab Hate Speech Team, whose study identifies and examines online incidences of hate speech, designing a research methodology that is replicable. They use qualitative coding methods to tease out the nuances of hate speech and subsequently optimize machine learning methods to catalog hate speech incidences.
The Series
In conjunction with the inaugural Digital Humanities Summer Minor, DH at Berkeley will be hosting a weekly DH Summer Lecture series, highlighting the distinguished work of faculty and scholars engaged in the digital humanities at UC Berkeley.
While this series is designed to complement the coursework of the DH Summer minor, all are welcome to attend and learn more about DH scholarship on campus. This series will be held weekly on Thursday afternoons at 3:15 PM in the D-Lab Convening Room (356B Barrows Hall).
Each week, our featured speaker will present on their work followed by ample time for Q&A and discussion.