Hello everyone, If you have been subjected to research as a result of discussing your work online, you might be interested in a virtual workshop being put on by researchers at Royal Roads University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and the University of British Columbia. The online workshop, titled What Can Researchers and Research Communicators Do to Address Online Abuse?<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Preview/?sm=3n5pKcF8lJcfm_2B4S1KmL9OQ6pbaaPNneBGC8nCtpF6SOXCyvkKr0xL1t25bPjJnh>, happens November 23 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. PST. It’s specifically designed to support researchers and research communicators, but it’s open to everyone. The workshop covers scenarios and strategies to protect yourself online, including how to limit the amount of data you expose online. “None of us should have to deal with this alone,” Hodson says, adding that she and her team have met so many just doing that over the course of their research. “I think people don’t realize that we could be a community. I think one of the broader goals for this and our work going forward is to help people recognize that they’re not alone and we really are stronger together.” Learn more about the workshop and register now<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Preview/?sm=3n5pKcF8lJcfm_2B4S1KmL9OQ6pbaaPNneBGC8nCtpF6SOXCyvkKr0xL1t25bPjJnh>. Workshop facilitators Anatoliy Gruzd, Canada Research Chair in Privacy Preserving Digital Technologies, Toronto Metropolitan University Anatoliy Gruzd is a Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management and the Director of Research at the Social Media Lab<https://socialmedialab.ca/about/> at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is also a Member of the Royal Society of Canada<https://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows>’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and a founding co-chair of the International Conference on Social Media and Society<https://socialmediaandsociety.org/>. The broad aim of Gruzd’s various research initiatives is to understand how social media data can be used ethically to tackle a wide variety of societal problems from combating disinformation to helping educators navigate social media for teaching and learning. Jaigris Hodson, Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest, Royal Roads University. Jaigris Hodson is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest. She has published research in a wide range of academic publications and presented her work to national and international audiences. She has also published in non-academic publications such as The Evolllution and spoke at TEDX Victoria 2012. She is currently working on several SSHRC funded grant projects related to online harassment, anti social online behavior and digital misinformation. She is also a founding member of the Digital Public Interest Collective Chris Tenove, Interim Director in the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia Chris Tenove<https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/chris-tenove/> is the interim director of the University of British Columbia’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI<https://democracy.ubc.ca/>), and a researcher and instructor in the School of Public Policy & Global Affairs. He has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the challenges that digital media pose to democracy and human rights, focusing on topics such as electoral disinformation, social media regulation, and online harassment of politicians and health communicators. His policy reports on these topics include Trolled on the Campaign Trail: Online Incivility and Abuse in Canadian Politics<https://democracy.ubc.ca/platforms/online-incivility-in-politics-in-canada/trolled-on-the-campaign-trail-online-incivility-and-abuse-in-canadian-politics/> (2020), Online Hate in the Pandemic<https://hateinquiry.bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/Online-hate-in-the-pandemic-by-Dr.-Tenove-Dr.-Tworek_BCOHRCs-Inquiry-into-hate-in-the-pandemic.pdf> (2022), and Not Just Words: How Reputational Attacks Harm Journalists and Undermine Press Freedom<https://globalreportingcentre.org/reputational-attacks/> (2023). Prior to obtaining a PhD in Political Science, he worked in Canada and internationally as an award-winning journalist. Victoria O’Meara, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher and co-Founder of the Digital Public Interest Collective Victoria O’Meara is a post-doctoral researcher at Royal Roads University in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies. 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