Professor Rubin and Sarah Cornwell were interviewed by Daniel Midgley, an Australian radio show host on deception and satire detection for his podcast, “Talk the Talk”. The show “presents stuff that’s happening in the world of linguistics”. The podcast is available online (starting at around 14 min 30 sec).
Month: October 2017
Interview with the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Toronto
Victoria Rubin was interviewed by Daniel Calabretta, a senior digital editor at the Ryerson Review of Journalism (the RRJ), Ryerson University’s flagship magazine in Toronto. Daniel Calabretta is working on a feature for the magazine’s print edition, slated to come out in Spring 2018. He says the piece will be “focusing on fake news in Read More …
Invited Speech at “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème”, Montreal
Dr. Rubin was invited to speak at the Workshop “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème” [Fake news: a new face of the old problem], held in Montréal on 5 October 2017. The event was organized by le Centre d’études sur les médias, a center linked with the Laval University, Université de Read More …
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Research Profiled in University Affairs Magazine
Our research team’s research was profiled in the article “Researchers at Western build satire detector for news websites” on universityaffairs.ca on August 14, 2017. [University Affairs is Canada’s authoritative source of information about and for Canada’s university community.]