Publications

Key Publications

  • Big data, predictive machines and security: Enthusiasts, critics and sceptics. Discover Society. Volume 23. Edwards, A. (2015): http://discoversociety.org/2015/07/28/big-data-predictive-machines-and-security-enthusiasts-critics-and-sceptics/
  • The Emerging Contours of Data Science: A Sociological Response. Discover Society. Volume 23. Housley, W. (2015): http://discoversociety.org/2015/08/03/focus-the-emerging-contours-of-data-science/
  • Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (1016/j.techfore.2013.04.013) Burnap, P., Rana, O. F., Avis, N., Williams, M., Housley, W., Edwards, A., & Sloan, L (2015).
  • COSMOS: Towards an integrated and scalable service for analysing social media on demand. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 30(2), Burnap, P., Rana, O., Williams, M., Housley, W., Edwards, A., Morgan, J., & Conejero, J. (2015).
  • Encounters on the social web: Everyday life and emotions online. Sociological Perspectives (doi:10.1177/0731121415569284). Beneito-Montagut, R. (2015).
  • Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: a collaborative response. Big Data & Society 1:2 Housley, W. Procter, R., Edwards, A. et al (2014).
  • Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 4(1). Burnap, P., Williams, M. L., Sloan, L., Rana, O., Housley, W., Edwards, A., & Voss, A. (2014).
  • Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: tension monitoring and social media networks. Policing and Society, 23(4). Williams, M. L., Edwards, A., Housley, W., Burnap, P., Rana, O., Avis, N., & Sloan, L. (2013).
  • Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving Sociologically Relevant Demographics from Twitter. Sociological Research Online, 18(3), 7. Sloan, L., Morgan, J., Housley, W., Williams, M., Edwards, A., Burnap, P., & Rana, O. (2013)
  • Enabling Social Media Research Through Citizen Social Science. ECSCW 2013 Adjunct Proceedings Volume: 3. Procter, R, Housley, W., Williams, M., Edwards, A., Burnap, P. Morgan, J. and Rana, O. (2013)
  • Digital Social Research and the Sociological Imagination: Surrogacy, Augmentation and Re-orientation (Edwards, A., Housley, W., Williams, M. and Williams, M.) in International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Computational Social Science: Research Strategies, Design and Methods, Special Issue, Volume 16:2, Housley, W., Williams, M. Williams, M., Edwards, A. (Eds.) (2013)
  • Computational Social Science: An Overview. (Housley, W. Williams, M., Edwards, A. and Williams M.) forthcoming in International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Computational Social Science: Research Strategies, Design and Methods, Special Issue, Volume 16:1, Housley, W., Williams, M. Williams, M., Edwards, A. (Eds.) (2013)
  • “Power on”: Googlecracy, privatisation and standardisation of sources. Journal of Education Policy, 28(4), 481-500, Souto-Otero, M. & Beneito-Montagut, R. (2013).
  • Governmental Social Media use for Emergency Communication, Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference, Baden-Baden, Germany. Beneito-Montagut, R., Anson, S., Shaw, D. & Brewster, C. (2013).
  • Ethnography goes online: towards a user-centred methodology to research interpersonal communication on the Internet, Qualitative Research, 11(6), 716-735. Beneito Montagut, R. (2011).

 

Conference Papers

2015, Big Data and Criminology (Edwards, A.) Presented at: European Society of Criminology, Annual Meeting, University of Porto, Portugal, 2-5th September 2015.

2015, Actors, scripts, scenes and scenarios: Key trends in policy and research on the organization of serious crimes (Edwards, A.) Presented at: ‘The Politics and Jurisprudence of Group Offending’ Workshop, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, 22nd – 24th July 2015.

2015, Social media and civil society: participation, regulation and governance (Housely,W. , Edwards, A. Procter, R. Jirotka, M. Stahl, B and Webb, H.) Presented at: WISERD 2015 Annual Conference, Cardiff, Wales, 30 June – 2 July 2015.

2015, An expanded ethnography of Catalonian elderly using SM (Beneito-Montagut, R.; Begueria, A. & Cassian, N.). Presented at: ESA Conference 2015, Prague.

2015, Ageing, social media and social isolation (Beneito-Montagut, R.; Begueria, A. & Cassian, N.) Presented at: WISERD 2015 Annual Conference, Cardiff, Wales, 30 June – 2 July 2015

2014, Social Isolation and the Social Web: A study of Catalan older people using the Web 2.0 for interpersonal relationships (Beneito-Montagut, R.). Presented at: AKTIVE Conference, Leeds, UK.

2013, Elderly, Social Media and Social Isolation, participation in the Workshop Global Aging: Rising Challenges, UOC´s Education & Technology for Social Change Unesco Chair, November 2013. Barcelona, Spain.

2013, Elderly and Social Media: Bridging the gap of eMarginality through social media (Beneito-Montagut, R.). Presented at: ESA 2013 Conference, Turin, Italy

Beneito-Montagut, R., Anson, S., Shaw, D. & Brewster, C. (2013). Risk communication and social media: Are we ready? ESA Conference, Turin, Italy

Beneito-Montagut, R. (2012). Conversational encounters in the social web, Internet Research Conference, IR13, Saltford, UK.