Publications: Cyber hate (online hate crime)
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Wang, Y. & Chang, J., 'Why do some women hate feminists? Social media and the structural limitation of Chinese digital feminism' (2023), Asian Journal of Women's Studies [online]
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Wang, Y. & Liao, Y., 'SCNet: Hate Speech Detection Leveraging Syntactic Information and Conversational Contexts' (2024), MLNLP 2024 - 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
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Wani, A.H., Molvi, N.S. & Ashraf, S.I., 'Detection of Hate and Offensive Speech in Text' (2020), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11886 LNCS, pp. 87-93
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Wankhede, D.S., Gaikwad Vidya, S., Manikjade, A., Meher, N., Atkale, T., Ghule, A. & Gujar, D., 'Analyzing the Performance of Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, SVM and Random Forest for Identifying Hate speech from Twitter Social Media' (2023), 2023 7th International Conference On Computing, Communication, Control And Automation, ICCUBEA 2023
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Wanniarachchi, V.U., Scogings, C., Susnjak, T. & Mathrani, A., 'Hate Speech Patterns in Social Media: A Methodological Framework and Fat Stigma Investigation Incorporating Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modelling and Discourse Analysis' (2023), Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 27
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Waqas, A., Salminen, J., Jung, S.-G., Almerekhi, H. & Jansen, B.J., 'Mapping Online Hate: A Scientometric Analysis on Research Trends and Hotspots in Research on Online Hate' (2019), (2019), PLoS ONE, 14(9)
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Warford, N., Farber, N. & Mazurek, M.L., 'How Entertainment Journalists Manage Online Hate and Harassment' (2024), Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2024, pp. 279–295
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Warford, N., Matthews, T., Yang, K., Akgul, O., Consolvo, S., Kelley, P.G., Malkin, N., Mazurek, M.L., Sleeper, M. & Thomas, K., 'SoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research' (2022), Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022-May, pp. 2344-2360
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Warke, O., Jose, J.M., Breitsohl, J. & Wang, J., 'Capturing the Spectrum of Social Media Conflict: A Novel Multi-objective Classification Model' (2024), ICTIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, pp. 215–225
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Warner, M., Strohmayer, A., Higgs, M. & Coventry, L., 'A critical reflection on the use of toxicity detection algorithms in proactive content moderation systems' (2025), International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 198, 103468
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Washington, A.L., Rhue, L.A., Nakamura, L. & Stevens, R., 'Uncoupling Inequality: Reflections on the Ethics of Benchmarks for Digital Media' (2022), Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022-January, pp. 2846-2854
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Wasi, A.T., 'Explainable Identification of Hate Speech towards Islam using Graph Neural Networks' (2024), NLP4PI 2024 - 3rd Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, Proceedings of the Workshop, pp. 250–257
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Weatherby, G. A. & Scroggins, B., 'A content analysis of persuasion techniques used on white supremacist websites' (2005), Journal of Hate Studies, 4(1), pp. 9-31
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Weaver, S., 'A rhetoric discourse analysis of online anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic jokes' (2013), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(3), pp.483-499
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Weber, I., Gonçalves, J., Masullo, G.M., Torres da Silva, M. & Hofhuis, J., 'Who Can Say What? Testing the Impact of Interpersonal Mechanisms and Gender on Fairness Evaluations of Content Moderation' (2024), Social Media and Society, 10(4)
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Weber, I., Vandebosch, H., Poels, K. & Pabian, S., 'Features for Hate? Using the Delphi Method to Explore Digital Determinants for Online Hate Perpetration and Possibilities for Intervention' (2023), Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking [online]
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Weber, I., Vandebosch, H., Poels, K. & Pabian, S., 'The ecology of online hate speech: Mapping expert perspectives on the drivers for online hate perpetration with the Delphi method' (2024), Aggressive Behavior, 50(2), e22136
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Weber, I., Vandebosch, H., Poels, K. & Pabian, S., 'The ecology of online hate speech: Mapping expert perspectives on the drivers for online hate perpetration with the Delphi method' (2024), Aggressive Behavior, 50(2), e22136
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Weber, M., Viehmann, C., Ziegele, M. & Schemer, C., 'Online Hate Does Not Stay Online – How Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Mediate the Effect of Civil Negativity and Hate in User Comments on Prosocial Behavior' (2020), Computers in Human Behavior, 104
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Wegenschimmel, N. & McLaughlin, N., 'The Great Canadian Paradox: Jordan Peterson, Right-Wing Canadian Internet Personalities, and the End of Canadian Exceptionalism?' (2024), Society [online]
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Wei, H., Hswen, Y., Merchant, J.S., Drew, L.B., Nguyen, Q.C., Yue, X., Mane, H. & Nguyen, T.T., 'From Tweets to Streets: Observational Study on the Association Between Twitter Sentiment and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in New York City from 2019 to 2022' (2024), Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, e53050
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Wei, K., Lin, Y.-R. & Yan, M., 'Examining Protest as An Intervention to Reduce Online Prejudice: A Case Study of Prejudice Against Immigrants' (2020), The Web Conference 2020 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020, pp. 2443-2454
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Wei, M., Consolvo, S., Kelley, P.G., Kohno, T., Roesner, F &, Thomas, K., '“There’s so much responsibility on users right now:” Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment' (2023), Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – Proceedings, 190
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Weidinger, L., Uesato, J., Rauh, M., Griffin, C., Huang, P.-S., Mellor, J., Glaese, A., Cheng, M., Balle, B., Kasirzadeh, A., Biles, C., Brown, S., Kenton, Z., Hawkins, W., Stepleton, T., Birhane, A., Hendricks, L.A., Rimell, L., Isaac, W., Haas, J., Legassick, S., Irving, G. & Gabriel, I., 'Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models' (2022), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 214-229
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Weigel, M. & Gitomer, A., 'Hate-sharing: A case study of its prevalence and impact on Gab' (2024), New Media and Society [online]
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Weimann, G. & Masri, N., 'Research Note: Spreading Hate on TikTok' (2020), Studies in Conflict and Terrorism [online]
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Weimann, G. & Pack, A., 'TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate' (2023), Studies in Conflict and Terrorism [online]
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Weitzel, L., Daroz, T.H., Cunha, L.P., Helde, R.V. & Morais, L.M.D., 'Investigating Deep Learning Approaches for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media: Portuguese-BR tweets' (2023), Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI, 2023
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Weitzman, M., Williams, R.J. & Wald, J. (Eds.), 'The Routledge History of Antisemitism' (2023), London: Routledge
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Welch, C., Senman, L., Loftin, R., Picciolini, C., Robinson, J., Westphal, A., Perry, B., Nguyen, J., Jachyra, P., Stevenson, S., Aggarwal, J., Wijekoon, S., Baron-Cohen, S. & Penner, M., 'Understanding the Use of the Term “Weaponized Autism” in An Alt-Right Social Media Platform' (2022), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders [online]
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Wells, G., Romhányi, Á. & Steinkuehler, C., 'Hate speech and hate-based harassment in online games' (2024), Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1422422
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Wells, G., Romhanyi, A., Reitman, J.G., Gardner, R., Squire, K. & Steinkuehler, C., 'Right-Wing Extremism in Mainstream Games: A Review of the Literature' (2023), Games and Culture [online]
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Wen, X., Wang, Y., Wang, K. & Sui, R., 'A Russian Hate Speech Corpus for Cybersecurity Applications' (2022), Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, and IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, BigDataSecurity/HPSC/IDS 2022, pp. 41-47
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Wenando, F.A., Yusoff, N. & Izrin, N., 'Optimizing Hate Speech Detection in the Indonesian Language using FastText and LSTM Algorithms' (2024), 2nd International Symposium on Information Technology and Digital Innovation: Creative Trends in Sustainable Information Technology Design and Innovation, ISITDI 2024, pp. 299–305
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Wenando, F.A., Yusoff, N., Izrin, N., Ahmad, S.R.N., Salim, M., Puspa, M.A. & Novaliendry, D., 'Optimizing Hate Speech Detection in Indonesian Social Media: An ADASYN and LSTM-Based Approach' (2025), Journal Europeen des Systemes Automatises, 58(1), pp. 13–20
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Wendratama, E., Aprilia, M.P., Sari, Y.A., Kurnia, N. & Utomo, W.P., 'Domesticating WhatsApp Groups: Indonesian Women’s Experience with Misinformation and Hate Speech in the 2019 Election' (2023), Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, 39(4), pp. 372–390
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Weng, Z. & Lin, A., 'Public Opinion Manipulation on Social Media: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Bots during the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2022), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(24), 16376
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West, R. & Johnson, B., '“I hope you aren’t becoming woke”: New politicised contours of online ableism in response to disability advocacy by 2022 Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott' (2023), Australian Journal of Social Issues [online]
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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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Wich, M., Mosca, E., Gorniak, A., Hingerl, J. & Groh, G., 'Explainable Abusive Language Classification Leveraging User and Network Data' (2021), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12979 LNAI, pp. 481-496
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Wich, M., Widmer, C., Hagerer, G. & Groh, G., 'Investigating Annotator Bias in Abusive Language Datasets' (2021), International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, pp. 1515-1525
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Wickramaarachchi, W.A.K.M., Subasinghe, S.S., Wijerathna, K.K.R.T., Athukorala, A.S.U., Abeywardhana, L. & Karunasena, A., 'Identifying False Content and Hate Speech in Sinhala YouTube Videos by Analyzing the Audio' (2023), ICAC 2023 - 5th International Conference on Advancements in Computing: Technological Innovation for a Sustainable Economy, Proceedings, pp. 364–369
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Wieczorkowski, J. & Suwińska, A., 'Automatic Hate Speech Detection Methods as a Tool Supporting a Sustainable Society and Economy' (2024), in E. Ziemba & J. Wątróbski (Eds.) Adoption of Emerging Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability (pp. 242–264), Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press
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Wiedemann, G., Schmidt, J.-H., Rau, J., Münch, F.V. & Kessling, P., 'Telegram and the Political Public Sphere Introduction to a Special Issue | Telegram in der politischen Öffentlichkeit Zur Einführung in das Themenheft' (2023), Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 71(3-4), pp. 207–211
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Wiederhold, B.K., 'Putting the Toothpaste Back in the Tube: Against Online Hate Speech' (2023), Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 26(7), pp. 458–459
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Wiedlitzka, S., Prati, G., Brown, R., Smith, J. & Walters, M.A., 'Hate in Word and Deed: The Temporal Association Between Online and Offline Islamophobia' (2021), Journal of Quantitative Criminology [online]
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Wigerfelt, A., Wigerfelt, B. & Dahlstrand, K., 'Online hate crime – Social norms and the legal system' (2015), Quaestio Iuris, 8(3), pp.1859-1878
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Wijanarko, M.I., Susanto, L., Pratama, P.A., Idris, I., Hong, T. & Wijaya, D., 'Monitoring Hate Speech in Indonesia: An NLP-based Classification of Social Media Texts' (2024), EMNLP 2024 - 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of System Demonstrations, pp. 142–152
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