Publications | SAFE Lab at Columbia University

2020

AMC Interactions

Social work thinking for UX and AI design

Desmond Upton Patton

JSSWR

VATAS: An Open-Source Web Platform for Visual and Textual Analysis of Social Media

Desmond U. Patton

Philipp Blandfort

William R. Frey

Rossano Schifanella

Kyle McGregor

Shih-Fu U. Chang

ACM Digital Library

Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing

Desmond U. Patton

William R. Frey

Kyle A. McGregor

Kathleen McKeown

Emanuel Moss

2019

Palgrave Communications

Guns on social media: complex interpretations of gun images posted by Chicago youth

Desmond U. Patton

William R. Frey

Michael Gaskell

ICWSM-2019

Multimodal social media analysis for gang violence prevention

Philipp Blandfort

Desmond U. Patton

William R. Frey

Svebor Karaman

Surabhi Bhargava

Fei-Tzin Lee

Siddharth Varia

Chris Kedzie

Michael B. Gaskell

Rossano Schifanella

Kathleen McKeown

Shih-Fu Chang

International Journal of Bullying Prevention

When Twitter Fingers Turn to Trigger Fingers: a Qualitative Study of Social Media-Related Gang Violence

Desmond U. Patton

David Pyrooz

Scott Decker

William R. Frey

Patrick Leonard

Annotating Twitter Data from Vulnerable Populations: Evaluating Disagreement Between Domain Experts and Graduate Student Annotators

Desmond U. Patton

Philipp Blandfort

William R. Frey

Svebor Karaman

Michael Gaskell

2018

EMNLP 2018

Detecting Gang-Involved Escalation on Social Media Using Context

Serina Chang

Ruiqi Zhong

Ethan Adams

Fei-Tzin Lee

Siddharth Varia

Desmond Patton

William Frey

Chris Kedzie

Kathy McKeown

Cover of Biomedical Informatics Insights

Humanizing Digital Mental Health through Social Media: Centering Experiences of Gang-Involved Youth Exposed to High Rates of Violence

William R. Frey

Social Science Computer Review cover image

Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion: Formerly Gang-Involved Youth as Domain Experts for Analyzing Unstructured Twitter Data

William R. Frey

Desmond U. Patton

Michael B. Gaskell

Kyle A. McGregor

Biomedical Informatics Insights

Accommodating Grief on Twitter: An Analysis of Expressions of Grief Among Gang Involved Youth on Twitter Using Qualitative Analysis and Natural Language Processing

Desmond Upton Patton

Jamie MacBeth

Sarita Schoenebeck

Katherine Shear

Kathleen McKeown

npj Digital Medicine

Expressions of loss predict aggressive comments on Twitter among gang-involved youth in Chicago

Desmond Upton Patton

Owen Rambow

Jonathan Auerbach

Kevin Li

William Frey

Pediatrics Journal Cover

Youth Gun Violence Prevention in a Digital Age

Desmond Upton Patton

Kyle McGregor

Gary Slutkin

2017

Violence and Victims

Tweets, Gangs, and Guns: A Snapshot of Gang Communications in Detroit

Desmond U. Patton

Sadiq Patel

Jun Sung Hong

Megan L. Ranney

Marie Crandall

Lyle Dungy

social media + society

Stop and Frisk Online: Theorizing Everyday Racism in Digital Policing in the Use of Social Media for Identification of Criminal Conduct and Associations

Desmond Upton Patton

Douglas-Wade Brunton

Andrea Dixon

Reuben Jonathan Miller

Patrick Leonard

Rose Hackman

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Parenting in a digital age: A review of parents' role in preventing adolescent cyberbullying

Caitlin Elsaesser

Beth Russell

Christine McCauley Ohannessian

Desmond U. Patton

Youth & Society

What’s a Threat on Social Media? How Black and Latino Chicago Young Men Define and Navigate Threats Online

Desmond Upton Patton

Patrick Leonard

Robert D. Eschmann

Sadiq Patel

Caitlin Elsaesser

Shantel Crosby

2016

Research Gate

Automatically Processing Tweets from Gang-Involved Youth: Towards Detecting Loss and Aggression

Terra Blevins

Robert Kwiatkowski

Jamie C. Macbeth

Kathleen McKeown

Desmond Upton Patton

Owen Rambow

ArXiv

Using Natural Language Processing and Qualitative Analysis to Intervene in Gang Violence: A Collaboration Between Social Work Researchers and Data Scientists

Desmond Upton Patton

Kathleen McKeown

Owen Rambow

Jamie Macbeth

Child & Youth Forum

Family-Level Factors, Depression, and Anxiety Among African American Children: A Systematic Review

Tyreasa Washington

Theda Rose

Stephanie Irby Coard

Desmond Upton Patton

Shelton Young

Sasha Giles

Marlon Nolen

Journal of Community Psychology

Hardiness scripts: high-achieving african american boys in a chicago charter school navigating community violence and school

Desmond U. Patton

Reuben J. Miller

James Garbarino

Adrian Gale

Emma Kornfeld

Computers In Human Behavior

Sticks, stones and Facebook accounts: What violence outreach workers know about social media and urban-based gang violence in Chicago

Desmond Upton Patton

Robert D. Eschmann

Caitlin Elsaesser

Eddie Bocanegra

Journal of Men's Studies

Introduction to the Special Issue on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in the Wake of a National Crisis: The State of Black Boys and Men Post-Ferguson

Daphne C. Watkins

Desmond U. Patton

Reuben J. Miller

New Media & Society

Gang violence on the digital street: Case study of a South Side Chicago gang member’s Twitter communication

Desmond U. Patton

Jeffrey Lane

Patrick Leonard

Jamie Macbeth

Jocelyn R. Smith-Lee

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

“Police took my homie I dedicate my life 2 his revenge”: Twitter tensions between gang-involved youth and police in Chicago

Desmond Upton Patton

Patrick Leonard

Loren Cahill

Jamie Macbeth

Chantel Crosby

Douglas-Wade Brunton

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Posttraumatic stress symptoms in context: Examining trauma responses to violent exposures and homicide death among Black males in urban neighborhoods

Jocelyn R. Smith

Desmond U. Patton

2015

Social Science Computer Review

"I Know God’s Got a Day 4 Me" Violence, Trauma, and Coping Among Gang-Involved Twitter Users

Desmond U. Patton

Ninive Sanchez

Dale Fitch

Jamie Macbeth

Patrick Leonard

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

A Systematic Review of Research Strategies Used in Qualitative Studies on School Bullying and Victimization

Desmond Upton Patton

Jun Sung Hong

Sadiq Patel

Michael J. Kral

Rethinking Prisoner Reentry

Reuben Jonathan Miller

Desmond Patton

Ed-Dee Williams

2014

Residential Treatment for Children & Youth

Are Community Violence-Exposed Youth at Risk of Engaging in Delinquent Behavior? A Review and Implications for Residential Treatment Research and Practice

Jun Sung Hong

Hui Huang

Meghan Golden

Desmond Patton

Tyreasa Washington

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