Publications: Covid-19/Coronavirus and hate crime
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Wheeler, B., Jung, S., Barioni, M.C.N., Purohit, M., Hall, D.L. & Silva, Y.N., '#WashTheHate: Understanding the Prevalence of Anti-Asian Prejudice on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2022), Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022, pp. 484-491
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Wheeler, B., Jung, S., Hall, D.L., Purohit, M. & Silva, Y., 'An Analysis of Temporal Trends in Anti-Asian Hate and Counter-Hate on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2023), Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 26(7), pp. 535–545
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Whitfield, C., Liu, Y. & Anwar, M., 'Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Determinants of Health Issues of Marginalized Black and Asian Communities: A Social Media Analysis Empowered by Natural Language Processing' (2024), Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities [online]
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Windberger, E.-M., 'Performative Responses to Anti-Asian Hate amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digital Activism and Community Building in WeRNotVirus' (2025), Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 13(1), pp. 186–203
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Wong, K.W.K., 'Exploring Racial Microaggressions Toward Chinese Immigrant Women in Greater Boston During Covid' (2023), Social Inclusion, 11(2), pp. 16-26
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Wong-Padoongpatt, G., Barrita, A. & King, A., 'Everyday Racism Increase for Asians in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2022), Asian American Journal of Psychology [online]
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Wu, C.-Y., Chang, S.-Y., Liu, L.-Y. & Hohl, A., 'GIS-based analysis of anti-Asian hate speech and its socioeconomic and ideological drivers in the United States during the early COVID-19 pandemic' (2025), GeoJournal, 90(1), 10
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Wu, D.J., Syropoulos, S., Rivera-Rodriguez, A. & Dasgupta, N., 'From model minority to yellow peril: How threat perceptions and disgust predict anti-Asian prejudice during COVID-19' (2023), Social and Personality Psychology Compass [online]
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Wu, X.-K., Zhao, T.-F., Lu, L. & Chen, W.-N., 'Predicting the Hate: A GSTM Model based on COVID-19 Hate Speech Datasets' (2022), Information Processing and Management, 59(4), 102998
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Xu, J., Sun, G., Cao, W., Fan, W., Yao, Z. & Li, H., 'Stigma, Discrimination, and Hate Crimes in Chinese-Speaking World amid Covid-19 Pandemic' (2021), Asian Journal of Criminology [online]
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Yellow Horse, A.J., 'Anti-Asian racism, xenophobia and Asian American health during COVID-19' (2021), in D. Lupton & K. Willis (Eds), The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives (pp. 195-206), London: Routledge
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Yin, Z., Fan, L., Yu, H. & Gilliland, A.J., 'Using a Three-step Social Media Similarity (TSMS) Mapping Method to Analyze Controversial Speech Relating to COVID-19 in Twitter Collections' (2020), Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2020, 9377930, pp. 1949-1953
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Yu, J., Rai, R., Lim, M.A. & Li, H., 'The post-racial myth: rethinking Chinese university students’ experiences and perceptions of racialised microaggressions in the UK' (2023), Higher Education [online]
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Yu, W. & Wang, Q., 'Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants' (2022), Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies [online]
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Zahrah, F., Nurse, J.R.C. & Goldsmith, M., 'Unmasking hate in the pandemic: A cross-platform study of the COVID-19 infodemic' (2024), Big Data Research, 37, 100481
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Zamorano Llena, C., Stier, J. & Gray, B. (Eds.), 'Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe' (2023), London: Routledge
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Zamri, N.A.K., Amin, F.M., Ab Aziz, A.A., Mohammad, N., Mohamad Noh, L.M., Sah Allam, S.N., Ridzuan, A.R. & Mohideen, R.S., 'Coronavirus exacerbates xenophobia: Consciousness of Twitter posting during the pandemic' (2021), SEARCH Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2021(Special Issue), pp. 67-82
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Zee, J., 'Surface and Retreat: The China Virus in Three Lunar Years' (2023), English Language Notes, 61(1), pp. 30-39
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Zhang, E., Hyun, S., Yip, T., Hahm, H.C. & Liu, C.H., 'Learning about discrimination during childhood: Implications for racial trauma among Asians and Asian Americans during the pandemic' (2022), Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 77, 103250
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Zhang, X., Sachdev, A., Dzotsenidze, N., Yu, X. & Kong, P.A., 'Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19: Emotional Challenges, Coping, and Implications for Asian American History Teaching' (2023), Education Sciences, 13(9), 903
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Zhang, Y. & Trifiro, B., 'Who Portrayed It as “The Chinese Virus”? An Analysis of the Multiplatform Partisan Framing in U.S. News Coverage About China in the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2022), International Journal of Communication, 16, pp. 1027-1050
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Zhao, P., 'Minor Feelings in the Wake of the Atlanta Attack: How a Mom of Asian Descent Spent the First 100 hours in the Aftermath' (2021), Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies [online]
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Zheng, J. & Zompetti, J.P., '‘I’m not a virus’: Asian hate in Donald Trump’s rhetoric' (2023), Asian Journal of Communication, 33(5), pp. 470–503
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Zhou, J., Verma, G., Zhang, L., Chang, N. & de Choudhury, M., 'Harm in Layers: Compositions of Misinformative Hate in Anti-Asian Speech and Impacts on Perceived Harmfulness' (2025), Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction, 9(2), CSCW092
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Zhou, S., Banawa, R. & Oh, H., 'The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Against Asian American and Pacific Islanders' (2021), Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 708426
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Zhou, S., Banawa, R. & Oh, H., 'Stop Asian hate: The mental health impact of racial discrimination among Asian Pacific Islander young and emerging adults during COVID-19' (2023), Journal of Affective Disorders, 325, pp. 346-353
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