Publications: Cyber hate (online hate crime)
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Walther, J.B., 'The Effects of Social Approval Signals on the Production of Online Hate: A Theoretical Explication' (2024), Communication Research [online]
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Walther, J.B. & Rice, R.E. (Eds.), 'Social Processes of Online Hate' (2024), London: Routledge
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Walther, S. & McCoy, A., 'US Extremism on Telegram: Fueling Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and Accelerationism' (2021), Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(2), pp. 100-124
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Wan, P.M., Qureshi, S.A. & Hussain, R.B.M. (Eds.), 'Muslim Women’s Lived Experiences and Intersectional Identities: A Global Perspective' (2025), Cham: Springer
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Wang, C., Day, M. & Wu, C., 'Political Hate Speech Detection and Lexicon Building: A Study in Taiwan' (2022), IEEE Access [online]
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Wang, C.-S., Yang, H.-L., Li, B.-Y. & Chen, H.-Y., 'Can Generative AI Eliminate Speech Harms? A Study on Detection of Abusive and Hate Speech during the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2023), 2023 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia, ICCE-Asia 2023
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Wang, H., Hee, M.S., Awal, M.R., Choo, K.T.W. & Lee, R.K.-W., 'Evaluating GPT-3 Generated Explanations for Hateful Content Moderation' (2023), IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023, pp. 6255–6263
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Wang, H., Lu, J., Han, Y., Ma, K. Yang, L. & Lin, H., 'Towards Patronizing and Condescending Language in Chinese Videos: A Multimodal Dataset and Detector' (2025), ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings
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Wang, H., Yang, T.R., Naseem, U. & Lee, R.K.-W., 'MultiHateClip: A Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Hateful Video Detection on YouTube and Bilibili' (2024), MM 2024 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 7493–7502
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Wang, H., Zhu, Y., Li, Y., Zhang, C., Yuan, Y. & Qiang, J., 'Implicit Hate Speech Detection via Soft Prompt-Tuning' (2026), Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2753 CCIS, pp. 33–47
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Wang, H.M., Bulat, B., Fujimoto, S. & Frey, S., 'Governing for Free: Rule Process Effects on Reddit Moderator Motivations' (2022), Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1655 CCIS, pp. 97-105
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Wang, J., 'Deep Neural Networks for Detecting Hate Speech' (2022), 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Computer Application, ICDSCA 2022, pp. 768-772
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Wang, P. & Catalano, T., '‘Chinese virus’: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Asian racist discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic' (2023), Journal of Language and Discrimination, 7(1), pp. 26-51
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Wang, S., 'The Power of Images: How Multimodal Hate Speech Shapes Prejudice and Prosocial Behavioral Intentions' (2024), Social Media and Society, 10(4)
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Wang, S. & Kim, K.J., 'Content Moderation on Social Media: Does It Matter Who and Why Moderates Hate Speech?' (2023), Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking [online]
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Wang, W., Guo, Y., Shen, C., Ding, S., Liao, G., Fu, H. & Prabhakar, P.K., 'Integrity and Junkiness Failure Handling for Embedding-based Retrieval: A Case Study in Social Network Search' (2023), SIGIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 3250–3254
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Wang, W., Huang, J., Chen, C., Gu, J., Zhang, J., Wu, W., He, P. & Lyu, M., 'Validating Multimedia Content Moderation Software via Semantic Fusion' (2023), ISSTA 2023 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pp. 576–588
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Wang, W., Huang, J., Huang, J.-T., Chen, C., Gu, J., He, P. & Lyu, M.R., 'An Image is Worth a Thousand Toxic Words: A Metamorphic Testing Framework for Content Moderation Software' (2023), Proceedings - 2023 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2023, pp. 1339–1351
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Wang, X., Koneru, S., Venkit, P.N., Frischmann, B. & Rajtmajer, S., 'The unappreciated role of intent in algorithmic moderation of abusive content on social media' (2025), Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 6(3)
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Wang, X., Wu, M. & Rajtmajer, S., 'From Yellow Peril to Model Minority: Asian stereotypes in social media during the COVID-19 pandemic' (2023), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 283-291
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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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Wang, Y., Yu, P. & He, G., 'Silent LLMs: Using LoRA to Enable LLMs to Identify Hate Speech' (2025), Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 53
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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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Wardle, C. & Scales, D., 'Advocating for a community-centred model for responding to potential information harms' (2025), Nature Human Behaviour [online]
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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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Waśniewska, M., 'The Discourse of Dehumanization' (2025), New York: Routledge
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Watney, M.M., 'Evaluating the Different Approaches to Social Media Regulation and Liability' (2025), Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Social Media, ECSM 2025, pp. 310–316
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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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Weerasinghe, M., Macdonald, S., Fiani, C., O’Hagan, J., Chollet, M., McGill, M. & Khamis, M., 'Beyond Mute and Block: Adoption and Effectiveness of Safety Tools in Social VR, from Ubiquitous Harassment to Social Sculpting' (2025), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31(5), pp. 3275–3284
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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, D., Chau, M. & Li, Z., 'Mitigating Bias in Hate Speech Detection With a Small Number of Expert Annotations: A Prompt-Based Learning Approach' (2025), MIS Quarterly Management Information Systems, 49(4), pp. 1483–1512
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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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