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Dr Tracie Farrell

Senior Research Fellow

Knowledge Media Institute

tracie.farrell@open.ac.uk

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Biography

Tracie Farrell is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open University and recipient of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (Round 6). Her transdisciplinary, mixed methods research explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on society, including impacts on people, their communities, and the wider ecosystems and societies in which they live. Before her academic career, Tracie worked for 18 years in the non-formal education sector on issues related to human rights, gender, leadership and citizenship. 

Publications

Digital Artefact

Elon Musk could roll back social media moderation – just as we’re learning how it can stop misinformation (2022)

Augmented Reality in Activism: Go March (2018)

Journal Article

Co‐creating an equality diversity and inclusion learning analytics dashboard for addressing awarding gaps in higher education (2024)

Mediating learning with learning analytics technology: guidelines for practice (2024)

Abuse in the time of COVID-19: the effects of Brexit, gender and partisanship (2024)

Misogynoir: Challenges in Detecting Intersectional Hate (2022)

Experience of Health Professionals with Misinformation and Its Impact on Their Job Practice: Qualitative Interview Study. (2022)

Demographics and topics impact on the co-spread of COVID-19 misinformation and fact-checks on Twitter (2021)

Decentralized Learning Infrastructures for Community Knowledge Building (2020)

Scaffolding Reflection: Prompting Social Constructive Metacognitive Activity in Non-Formal Learning (2017)

Presentation / Conference

A Qualitative Study on Cultural Hegemony and the Impacts of AI (2024)

Annotators’ Perspectives: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Interpreting Misogynoir (2023)

False Hopes in Automated Abuse Detection (Short Paper) (2023)

Understanding the Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence in Primary Care (2023)

MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accounts’ Sharing of Misinformation (2023)

Understanding Misogynoir: A Study of Annotators’ Perspectives (2023)

Misogynoir: Public Online Response Towards Self-Reported Misogynoir (2021)

Agents for Fighting Misinformation Spread on Twitter: Design Challenges (2021)

Opinions, Intentions, Freedom of Expression, ... , and Other Human Aspects of Misinformation Online (2021)

On the use of Jargon and Word Embeddings to Explore Subculture within the Reddit’s Manosphere (2020)

Pathway to a Human-Values Based Approach to Tackle Misinformation Online (2020)

Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020)

Challenging Misinformation: Exploring Limits and Approaches (2019)

Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit (2019)

Understanding the Role of Human Values in the Spread of Misinformation (2019)

A Microservice Infrastructure for Distributed Communities of Practice (2018)

Transferring a Question-Based Dialog Framework to a Distributed Architecture (2017)

“We’re Seeking Relevance”: Qualitative Perspectives on the Impact of Learning Analytics on Teaching and Learning (2017)

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Representing Metacognition with Question­-based Dialogue (2016)

Developing Self-Regulated Learning through Reflection on Learning Analytics in Online Learning Environments (2015)

Thesis

Affordances of Learning Analytics for Mediating Learning (2018)