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Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Giraud, E. H., Poole, E., De Quincey, E., & Richardson, J. E. (in press). Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis. The Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241305260

There has been a dramatic surge in uses of big data analytics and automated methods to detect and remove hate speech from social media, with these methods deployed both by platforms themselves and within academic research. At the same time, recent so... Read More about Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis.

The Content Quality of Crowdsourced Knowledge on Stack Overflow- A Systematic Mapping Study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shahrour, G., De Quincey, E., & Lal, S. (2023, November). The Content Quality of Crowdsourced Knowledge on Stack Overflow- A Systematic Mapping Study. Presented at ASONAM '23: Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Kusadasi, Turkiye

Community Question Answering (CQA) forums such as Stack Overflow (SO) are a form of crowdsourced knowledge for software engineers who seek solutions to development and programming challenges. While such a forum provides valuable support to engineers,... Read More about The Content Quality of Crowdsourced Knowledge on Stack Overflow- A Systematic Mapping Study.

'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack (2024)
Journal Article
de Quincey, E., Richardson, J. E., Giraud, E. H., & Poole, E. (2024). 'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack. Media, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241229322

This article intervenes in debates about whether public-facing social media enable the rapid spread of hate speech, or whether these platforms can offer valuable opportunities to contest it. Advancing scholarship on ‘networked counter-publics’ and re... Read More about 'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack.

Transnational In-Group Solidarity Networks in the Case of #Hellobrother (2023)
Journal Article
POOLE, E., RİCHARDSON, J. E., GİRAUD, E. H., & DE QUİNCEY, E. (in press). Transnational In-Group Solidarity Networks in the Case of #Hellobrother. Journal of Media and Religion Studies, 6(2), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.47951/mediad.1401093

This paper examines the dynamics of one hashtag, #hellobrother, shared on Twitter following the Christchurch terror attack on 15th March 2019. It was analysed as part of a larger study #Contesting Islamophobia: Representation and Appropriation in Med... Read More about Transnational In-Group Solidarity Networks in the Case of #Hellobrother.

Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Poole, E., Giraud, E. H., Richardson, J. E., & de Quincey, E. (2023). Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Media + Society, 9(3), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231199452

This article advances research on mediated solidarity, by analyzing the contestation of Islamophobia on the social media platform Twitter, in the context of Brexit, the Christchurch terror attack, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a unique longit... Read More about Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Quantifying Device Usefulness - How Useful is an Obsolete Device? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Goodwin, C., Woolley, S., de Quincey, E., & Collins, T. (2023, August). Quantifying Device Usefulness - How Useful is an Obsolete Device?. Presented at INTERACT 2023 - 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference, York, UK

Obsolete devices add to the rising levels of electronic waste, a major environmental concern, and a contributing factor to climate change. In recent years, device manufacturers have established environmental commitments and launched initiatives such... Read More about Quantifying Device Usefulness - How Useful is an Obsolete Device?.

Reflections on the 35th BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference at Keele University (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Woolley, S., de Quincey, E., Flint, T., Grandison, T., Rugg, G., Fleck, R., Whittington, P., Ortolani, M., Misirli, G., & Collins, T. (2022, July). Reflections on the 35th BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference at Keele University. Presented at 35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Keele, Staffordshire, UK