William Dance
PhD studentResearch Interests
Keywords: disinformation; misinformation; deception; manipulation; social media.
My primary research interest is using corpus linguistic approaches to investigate deception and manipulation in online spaces. Situating myself within forensic linguistics, my research focuses on how people manipulate others linguistically and also how, on the internet, ideas spread from their inception until they cease to exist.
My PhD thesis, 'The Dissemination of Disinformation on Social Media', uses corpus approaches to study the replication and reception of online disinformation (fake news) on social media. It focuses on how people share misinformation and disinformation online to legitimise their views and how people use ’fake news’ to convince others to align with their own ideologies.
The Ethics of Disinformation Research in Closed Online Spaces
Invited talk
Corpus Linguistics And Manipulation: Exploring Patterns In Hostile-State Information Operations
Invited talk
Linguistics and disinformation: motivations for sharing fake news
Invited talk
40th ICAME Conference
Participation in conference
Corpus methods and multimodal data: A new approach
Invited talk
Coding the fakes: How linguistics can help us study disinformation
Invited talk