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Videos glorifying guns under scrutiny as Akron confronts spike in shootings

Desmond Patton

Aug 2020 • Akron Beacon Journal

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Police Monitoring Of Social Media Sparks Concerns In Black And Brown Communities

Desmond Patton

Aug 2020 • NPR

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Chicago police monitor social media as crime-fighting strategy; sociologist, ACLU urge caution

Desmond Patton

Aug 2020 • ABC

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Has Twitter just had its saddest fortnight ever?

Desmond Patton

Jun 2020 • Nature

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Virtual Town Hall

Bridging the Digital Divide During COVID-19

Desmond Patton

Apr 2020 • Columbia University

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Desmond Patton on Social Media and Gang Violence

Desmond Patton

Dec 2019 • Good Code Podcast

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Black Researchers Lead The Call To Teach Ethics And Equity To The Tech Industry

Desmond Patton

Oct 2019 • The Moguldom Nation

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Could AI curb Cape Flats gang violence?

Desmond Patton

Oct 2019 • The Mercury

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Guns on Social Media

Complex Interpretations of Gun Images Posted by Chicago Youth

Desmond Patton, William R. Frey and Michael Gaskell

Oct 2019 • Palgrave Communications 5(119)

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On the viral death of a B.C. teen: What came first, cruel intentions or an addiction to creating content?

Desmond Patton

Aug 2019 • National Post

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Why AI needs more social workers, with Columbia University’s Desmond Patton

Desmond Patton

Aug 2019 • Tech Crunch

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Trump wants to “detect mass shooters before they strike.” It won’t work.

Desmond Patton and Meredith Broussard

Aug 2019 • Vox

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They Are Children

How Posts on Social Media Lead to Gang Violence

Desmond Patton

May 2017 • TEDxBroadway

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Automatically Processing Tweets From Gang-involved Youth

Towards Detecting Loss and Aggression

Terra Blevins, Robert Kwiatkowski, Jamie Macbeth, Kathleen McKeown, Desmond Patton and Owen Rambow

Dec 2016 • Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers 2196-2206

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Using Natural Language Processing and Qualitative Analysis to Intervene in Gang Violence

A Collaboration Between a Social Work Researchers and Data Scientists

Desmond Patton, Kathleen McKeown, Owen Rambow and Jamie C. Macbeth

Dec 2016 • Proceedings of the Second Annual Data for Good Exchange Conference

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In Effort To Curb Violence In Chicago, A Professor Mines Social Media

Desmond Patton

Sep 2016 • NPR

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Post-discharge Needs of Victims of Gun Violence in Chicago

A Qualitative Study

Desmond Patton, Aparna Sodhi, Steven Affinati, Jooyoung Lee and Marie Crandall

Sep 2016 • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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Sticks, stones and Facebook accounts

What violence outreach workers know about social media and urban-based gang violence in Chicago

Desmond Patton, Robert D. Eschmann, Caitlin Elsaesser and Eddie Bocanegrad

May 2016 • Computers in Human Behavior

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“Police Took My Homie I Dedicate My Life 2 His Revenge”

Twitter Tensions Between Gang-involved Youth and Police in Chicago

Desmond Patton, Patrick Leonard, Loren Cahill, Jamie Macbeth, Shantel Crosby and Douglas-Wade Brunton

May 2016 • Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 26(3-4):310-324

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Gang Violence on the Digital Street

Case Study of a South Side Chicago Gang Member’s Twitter Communication

Desmond Patton, Jeffrey Lane, Patrick Leonard, Jamie Macbeth and Jocelyn R Smith Lee

Jan 2016 • New Media and Society 19(7):1000-1018

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