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John Fink developed a Reddit data scraper tool to support research on the Lying Flat movement in China

In 2022, Digital Scholarship Librarian John Fink assisted Dr. Yanqiu Rachel Zhou (Professor of Health, Aging, and Society at McMaster University) with a macro analysis of Reddit comments about the “Lying Flat Movement” in China. At the time, we highlighted John’s …

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CW: Racist Violence, Death 2021 marks another year of ongoing racist violence toward Black, Indigenous, and many other racialized communities of colour. The early months of this year featured an increase in anti-Asian racism followed by police violence against Black …

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By: Raquel Burgess, PhD student, Dept of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health ** Contains spoilers for the HBO series Westworld Recently, we have witnessed an ongoing and important debate about whether governments should be able to …

Great power, but no responsibility: Commodified data in our contemporary world Read more »