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Prof. Pete BurnapProfessor of Data Science & Cybersecurity, Cardiff University School of Computer ScienceVerified email at cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Prof Luke SloanProfessor, Deputy Director Social Data Science Lab, Director Cardiff Q-StepVerified email at cardiff.ac.uk
Omer RanaCardiff University, UKVerified email at cardiff.ac.uk
Michael LeviProfessor of Criminology, Cardiff UniversityVerified email at Cardiff.ac.uk
David S. WallUniversity of LeedsVerified email at leeds.ac.uk
Professor Amanda L RobinsonSecurity, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, Cardiff UniversityVerified email at cardiff.ac.uk
R.V. Gundurcriminologist, ravejudgerun.comVerified email at ravejudgerun.com
Kate StewartAssociate Professor of Sociology, University of East AngliaVerified email at uea.ac.uk
Vincent KnightLecturer in Operational Research, Cardiff UniversityVerified email at cf.ac.uk
Bella DicksProfessor of Sociology, Cardiff University; Head of Research, Amgueddfa-Cymru National Museum WalesVerified email at museumwales.ac.uk
Jonathan ScourfieldProfessor of Social Work, Cardiff UniversityVerified email at cardiff.ac.uk
Gualtiero (Walter) ColomboCardiff UniversityVerified email at cs.cf.ac.uk
Javier ConejeroBarcelona Supercomputing CenterVerified email at bsc.es
DAVID GADDProfessor of Criminology, University of ManchesterVerified email at manchester.ac.uk
Luca GiommoniCardiff University, School of Social SciencesVerified email at cardiff.ac.uk
Jamie LewisSchool of Social Sciences, Cardiff UniversityVerified email at cardiff.ac.uk
Professor EJ RenoldCardiff UniversityVerified email at cf.ac.uk
Ewan KleinProfessor Emeritus of Language Technology, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UKVerified email at inf.ed.ac.uk
Steven CookSenior Area Research Specialist, Epidemiology, University of MichiganVerified email at umich.edu
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Matthew L Williams

Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University

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Cyber hate speech on twitter: An application of machine classification and statistical modeling for policy and decision making P Burnap, ML Williams Policy & Internet 7 (2), 223-242, 2015	691	2015
Researching online populations: the use of online focus groups for social research K Stewart, M Williams Qualitative Research 5 (4), 395-416, 2005	603	2005
Who Tweets? Deriving the Demographic Characteristics of Age, Occupation and Social Class from Twitter User Meta-Data L Sloan, J Morgan, P Burnap, ML Williams PLOS ONE 10 (3), 2015	422	2015
Us and them: identifying cyber hate on Twitter across multiple protected characteristics P Burnap, ML Williams EPJ Data science 5, 1-15, 2016	385	2016
Towards an ethical framework for publishing Twitter data in social research: taking into account users’ views, online context and algorithmic estimation ML Williams, P Burnap, L Sloan Sociology, 2017	363	2017
Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack P Burnap, ML Williams, L Sloan, O Rana, W Housley, A Edwards, ... Social Network Analysis and Mining 4, 1-14, 2014	302	2014
140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election P Burnap, R Gibson, L Sloan, R Southern, M Williams Electoral Studies 41, 230-233, 2016	284	2016
Cyberhate on social media in the aftermath of Woolwich: A case study in computational criminology and big data ML Williams, P Burnap British Journal of Criminology 56 (2), 211-238, 2016	244	2016
Knowing the tweeters: Deriving sociologically relevant demographics from Twitter L Sloan, J Morgan, W Housley, M Williams, A Edwards, P Burnap, O Rana Sociological research online 18 (3), 74-84, 2013	240	2013
Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis P Burnap, OF Rana, N Avis, M Williams, W Housley, A Edwards, J Morgan, ... Technological Forecasting and Social Change 95, 96-108, 2015	239	2015
Crime sensing with big data: The affordances and limitations of using open-source communications to estimate crime patterns ML Williams, P Burnap, L Sloan The British Journal of Criminology 57 (2), 320-340, 2017	216	2017
Digital social research, social media and the sociological imagination: Surrogacy, augmentation and re-orientation A Edwards, W Housley, M Williams, L Sloan, M Williams International journal of social research methodology 16 (3), 245-260, 2013	206	2013
Avatar watching: participant observation in graphical online environments M Williams Qualitative research 7 (1), 5-24, 2007	206	2007
Hate in the machine: Anti-Black and anti-Muslim social media posts as predictors of offline racially and religiously aggravated crime ML Williams, P Burnap, A Javed, H Liu, S Ozalp The British Journal of Criminology 60 (1), 93-117, 2020	203	2020
Virtually criminal: Crime, deviance, and regulation online M Williams Taylor & Francis, 2006	185	2006
Policing diversity in the digital age: Maintaining order in virtual communities DS Wall, M Williams Criminology & Criminal Justice 7 (4), 391-415, 2007	151	2007
Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: A collaborative response W Housley, R Procter, A Edwards, P Burnap, M Williams, L Sloan, O Rana, ... Big Data & Society 1 (2), 2053951714545135, 2014	143	2014
Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: tension monitoring and social media networks ML Williams, A Edwards, W Housley, P Burnap, O Rana, N Avis, J Morgan, ... Policing and society 23 (4), 461-481, 2013	133	2013
Guardians upon high: An application of routine activities theory to online identity theft in Europe at the country and individual level ML Williams British Journal of Criminology 56 (1), 21-48, 2016	130	2016
Hate speech, machine classification and statistical modelling of information flows on Twitter: Interpretation and communication for policy decision making P Burnap, ML Williams	122	2014

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