SMASH
Social Media Analysis and Support for Humanity

SMASH is a research group that brings together a range of researchers from the University of Edinburgh in order to build on our existing strengths in social media research. This research group focuses on mining structures and behaviours in social networks.

List of current projects:
  • Detecting stance, sarcasm, hate speech, humour & fake news
  • Creating language resources from social media
  • Language evolution over social media
  • Mental health monitoring through social media
  • Social media & privacy violation
  • Digital religion and religious misinformation in the Middle East
  • Social bias in NLP

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Our People

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Walid Magdy

Professor

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Björn Ross

Reader (Associate Professor)

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Tuğrulcan Elmas

Lecturer

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Zeerak Talat

Chancellor’s Fellow

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Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya

Postdoctoral Scholar

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Sandrine Chausson

PhD Student

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Yi (Wendy) Zheng

PhD student

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Mahmoud Fawzi

PhD Student

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Zahra Bokaee

PhD Student

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Artemis Deligianni

PhD Student

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Cyndie Demeocq

PhD Student

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Benazir Pratamawaty

PhD Student

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Tom Bidewell

PhD Student

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Alessandra Terranova

PhD Student

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Nataliya Stepanova

PhD Student

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Onat Özdemir

PhD Student

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Mugdha Pandya

PhD Student

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Duncan Reid

PhD Student

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Riyadh Alnasser

PhD Student

Recent Publications

Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media
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State & Geopolitical Censorship on Twitter (X): Detection & Impact Analysis of Withheld Content
State and geopolitical censorship on Twitter, now X, has been turning into a routine, raising concerns about the boundaries between …
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