Online Safety

Mark Warner

This research theme relates to online safety. Current projects related to online safety are detailed below, but please also view past projects.

Current research projects

REPHRAIN

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Madeline Carr, Emiliano De Cristofaro and Steven Murdoch

The National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online, is a collaboration between the University of Bristol, UCL, the University of Bath, the University of Edinburgh and Kings College London.

UseCRT - User experience and usability of Content Reporting Tools in online social media platforms and their user-to-user messaging services

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Mark Warner (UCL), Catherine O'Brien (UCL), Ruba Abu-Salma (Kings College London), Steven Murdoch (UCL) and Nuur Alifah Roslan (UCL, Visiting)

This project will evaluate the user experience and usability of user content reporting tools in the most popular social media platforms and their user-to-user messaging services, investigated within the context of online harassment as defined by the platforms themselves.

Development of a child sexual abuse conversation (CSAC) dataset

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Mark Warner (University College London), Philip Anderson (Nothumbria University), Wai Lok Woo (Nothumbria University) and Garry Elvin (Nothumbria University)

This project will lead to advances in our understanding of how perpetrators of child sexual grooming engage online with young people through computer-mediated communication tools and platforms (e.g., Facebook, WhatsApp).

Completed research projects

Key2Kindness: A cross-platform proactive content moderation system

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Mark Warner (UCL), Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University), Lynne Coventry (Abertay University), Matthew Higgs (Independent), Husnain Rafiq (Edge Hill University) and Liying Yang (Northumbria University)

Key2Kindness is an interdisciplinary project exploring the role of proactive content moderation systems to reduce instances of online harassment across both privacy and public online social platforms.