4 papers
Ingroup bias is prevalent in user reports of hate and abuse online
Florence E. Enock, Helen Z. Margetts, Jonathan Bright
The prevalence of online hate and abuse is a pressing global problem. While tackling such societal harms is a priority for research across the social sciences, it is a difficult ta…
Gendered Inequalities in Online Harms: Fear, Safety Work, and Online Participation
Florence E. Enock, Francesca Stevens, Tvesha Sippy +5
Online harms, such as hate speech, trolling and self-harm promotion, continue to be widespread. There are growing concerns that these harms may disproportionately affect women, ref…
Who is driving the conversation? Analysing the nodality of British MPs and journalists on social media
Sukankana Chakraborty, Leonardo Castro-Gonzalez, Helen Margetts +3
With the rise of social media, political conversations now take place in more diffuse environments. In this context, it is not always clear why some actors, more than others, have…
Behind the Deepfake: 8% Create; 90% Concerned. Surveying public exposure to and perceptions of deepfakes in the UK
Tvesha Sippy, Florence Enock, Jonathan Bright +1
This article examines public exposure to and perceptions of deepfakes based on insights from a nationally representative survey of 1403 UK adults. The survey is one of the first of…