Activism & Social Movements
Pandemics, Protests, and Publics: Demographic Activity and Engagement on Twitter in 2020
Sarah Shugars, Adina Gitomer, Stefan D. McCabe, Ryan J. Gallagher, Kenneth Joseph, Nir Grinberg, Larissa Doroshenko, Brooke Foucault Welles, David Lazer. (2021) Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1.
Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd
Wu, H.H., Gallagher, R.J., Alshaabi, T., Adams, J.L., Minot, J.R., Arnold, M.V., Foucault Welles, B., Harp, R., Sheridan Dodds, P., Danforth, C.M. (2023). PLOS ONE 18(1): e0279225,
A Dramaturgical Approach to Online Activism within Youth Empowerment Organizations
Irannejad Bisafar, F., Foucault Welles, B., & Parker, A. G. (2020) Proceedings of the ACM on human computer interaction.
Supporting Youth Activists’ Strategic Use of Social Media: A Qualitative Investigation of Design Opportunities
Irannejad Bisafar, F., Foucault Welles, B., D’ignazio, C., & Parker, A. G. (2020).
#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
Jackson, S.J., Bailey, M., & Foucault Welles, B. (2020). MIT Press.
Book | Open Access | Featured Article
Who Says What with Whom: Using Bi-Spectral Clustering to Organize and Analyze Social Media Protest Networks
Joseph, K., Gallagher, R.J., & Foucault Welles, B. (2020). Computational Communication Research, 2(2), 153-174
Reclaiming Stigmatized Narratives: The Networked Disclosure Landscape of #MeToo
Gallagher, R.J., Stowell, E., Parker, A.G., & Foucault Welles, B. (2019). Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3(CSCW), 1-30.
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2019
Journal article | Open access preprint | Slides
The Battle for #Baltimore: Networked Counterpublics and the Contested Framing of Urban Unrest
Welles, B. F., & Jackson, S.J. (2019). International Journal of Communication, 13, 21.
Women tweet on violence: from #YesAllWomen to #MeToo
Jackson, S.J., Bailey, M., & Foucault Welles, B. (2019). Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, 15.
#GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online
Jackson, S.J., Bailey, M., & Foucault Welles, B. (2018). New Media & Society, 20(5), 1868-1888.
#Ferguson is everywhere: Initiators in emerging counterpublic networks
Jackson, S.J., & Foucault Welles, B. (2016). Information, Communication & Society, 19(3), 397-418.
Hijacking #myNYPD: Social media dissent and networked counterpublics
Jackson, S.J., & Foucault Welles, B. (2015). Journal of Communication, 65(6), 932-952.
Smartroom Technology and Teams
Multiparty Visual Co-Occurrences for Estimating Personality Traits in Group Meetings.
Zhang, L., Bhattacharya, I., Morgan, M., Foley, M., Riedl, C., Welles, B., & Radke, R. (2020). In The IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (pp. 2085-2094).
The unobtrusive group interaction (UGI) corpus
Bhattacharya, I., Foley, M., Ku, C., Zhang, N., Zhang, T., Mine, C., ... & Radke, R. J. (2019). In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (pp. 249-254).
A multimodal-sensor-enabled room for unobtrusive group meeting analysis
Bhattacharya, I., Foley, M., Zhang, N., Zhang, T., Ku, C., Mine, C., ... & Radke, R. J. (2018). In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 347-355).
Improved visual focus of attention estimation and prosodic features for analyzing group interactions
Zhang, L., Morgan, M., Bhattacharya, I., Foley, M., Braasch, J., Riedl, C., ... & Radke, R. J. (2019). In 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 385-394).
General Interest
Handbook of Networked Communication
Foucault Welles, B. and González-Bailón, S., eds. (2020). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
On Writing, Surviving, and Thriving in Communication and Media Studies
Foucault Welles, B. (2020). International Journal of Communication.
Network Visualization and Problem-Solving Support: A Cognitive Fit Study
Foucault Welles, B. and Xu, W. (2018). Social Networks, 54, 162-167.
Visualizing Computational Social Science: The Multiple Lives of a Complex Image
Foucault Welles, B. and Meirelles, I. (2015). Science Communication. 13(1), 35-48.