2025

PhD thesis: Understanding Disinformation:Definitions, Discussions, and Discourses.

Dance, W. (2025). Corpus Linguistics and Social Media. In International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. (link)

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Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Gleave, R., & Mackey, A. (2025). ‘It’s a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on twitter/X during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine: X, 100620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100620

Demjén, Z., Brezina, V., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Gleave, R., Hardaker, C., & Semino, E. (2025). ‘I am still unsure…’–Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 100122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100122

2024

Hardaker, C., Deignan, A., Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Sanderson, C., Gatherer, D. (2024). The Victorian anti-vaccination discourse corpus (VicVaDis): construction and exploration. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad075.

2023

Dance, W. (2023). Addressing algorithms in disinformation. Crest Security Review, 17 (Misinformation), 16-17. (Access).

Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Deignan, A., Demjén, Z., Hardaker, C., & Mackey, A. (2023). Narratives, information and manifestations of resistance to persuasion in online discussions of HPV vaccination. Health Communication, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2257428

Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., & Hardaker, C. (2023). Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability. Discourse & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231181075

2022

Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Gatherer, D., Hardaker, C., & Semino, E. (2022). ‘Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’–A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum. Discourse, Context & Media, 48, 100624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100624

2020

Christiansen, A., Dance, W., & Wild, A. (2020). Constructing corpora from images and text. In Corpus Approaches to Social Media (Vol. 98). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.07chr

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2019

Dance, W. (2019). Disinformation online: Social media user’s motivations for sharing ‘fake news’. Science in Parliament, 75 (2). ISSN 0263-6271. (Access).