Category: Laura Cram

#ImagineEurope at the Turing Summit

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram The Imagine Europe project explores how people use social media to talk about the UK’s relationship with the EU. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram report on a recent data science event in Edinburgh in which the project participated. LinkedIn Maps Data Visualisation, Luc Legay, CC-BY-SA-2.0 This week the Imagine Europe …

The Use of #Migrant and #Refugee on Twitter

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram In discussions on the mass movement of people from the Mediterranean Basin to Europe, the choice of words can play an important role. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explore how users on Twitter make use of the terms ‘migrant’ and ‘refugee’ in the debate. P-GRC0233, IFRCRCS, CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 The movement of …

Building a Twitter Dataset to Find out How People View the EU

Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram In the context of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram are investigating how people use social media to talk about the UK-EU relationship. They provide the first update on the project, which has a presence on Storify, explaining the process of building a dataset …

Imagining the European Union

Laura Cram The UK’s EU referendum provides an opportunity for citizens to move beyond the impressions set by political leaders and to reimagine the EU and their role in it, writes Laura Cram. She argues that this reimagining will have important implications not only for the referendum, but also for its aftermath. Council of the …

Welcome to European Futures!

Laura Cram · Chad Damro · Tobias Lock · Drew Scott · Anthony Salamone It’s our pleasure to welcome you to European Futures. Edinburgh, Moyan Brenn, CC-BY-2.0 European Futures is academic blog from the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Europa Institute. Its mission is to bring thought-provoking commentary and insightful analysis to Europe and …