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William Housley
Researcher at Cardiff University
Publications - 86
Citations - 2696
William Housley is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Conversation analysis. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 86 publications receiving 2377 citations.
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Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack
Pete Burnap,Matthew Leighton Williams,Luke Sloan,Omer Rana,William Housley,Adam Michael Edwards,Vincent A. Knight,Rob Procter,Alex Voss +8 more
TL;DR: Novel findings are reported that identify that the sentiment expressed in the tweet is statistically significantly predictive of both size and survival of information flows of this nature.
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The Reconsidered Model of Membership Categorisation Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of ethnomethodology in sociological analyses of language and interaction is investigated in relation to membership categorization and the analysis of talk-in-interaction.
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Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving Sociologically Relevant Demographics from Twitter:
Luke Sloan,Jeffrey Morgan,William Housley,Matthew Leighton Williams,Adam Michael Edwards,Peter Burnap,Omer Rana +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the proportion of males and females using Twitter in the UK reflects the gender balance observed in the 2011 Census, and three types of geographical information that can be derived from Tweets either directly or by proxy and how spatial information can be used to link social media with official curated data.
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Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis
Peter Burnap,Omer Rana,Nicholas John Avis,Matthew Leighton Williams,William Housley,Adam Michael Edwards,Jeffrey Morgan,Luke Sloan +7 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that a combination of conversation analysis methods and text mining outperforms a number of machine learning approaches and a sentiment analysis tool at classifying tension levels in individual tweets.
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Membership categorization, culture and norms in action:
TL;DR: In this paper, membership categorization analysis (MCA) is used to examine the extent to which MCA can inform an understanding of reasoning within the public domain where morality, policy and cultural politics are visible.