Publications
Selected publications
- Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities (Journal article - 2021)
- Detecting Textual Reuse in News Stories, At Scale (Journal article - 2019)
- Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques (Journal article - 2019)
- RISJbot: a scrapy project to extract the text and metadata of articles from news websites (Software / Code - 2018)
- Digital-born news media in Europe (Report - 2016)
- The Life and Death of Political News: Measuring the Impact of the Audience Agenda Using Online Data (Journal article - 2014)
2024
Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities
Nicholls, T., & Culpepper, P. D. (2024). Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities. In Computational Political Communication (pp. 158-180). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003546726-7
Agent-based modeling of diversity, new information and minority groups in opinion formation
Mark Pogson., & Tom Nicholls. (2024). Agent-based modeling of diversity, new information and minority groups in opinion formation. Computational Communication Research, 6(1), 1. doi:10.5117/ccr2024.1.3.pogs
2022
Better political text classification using large language models
Nicholls, T., & Culpepper, P. D. (2022, September 30). Better political text classification using large language models. In Information, Redistribution and Financial Regulation conference. Oxford.
Deep learning models for multilingual supervised political text classification
Nicholls, T., & Culpepper, P. D. (2022, May 5). Deep learning models for multilingual supervised political text classification. In COMPTEXT. Dublin.
2021
Narratives and Patterns of Toxicity of Covid-19 Conversations on Social Media: A Comparison across 6 Countries
Majó-Vázquez, S., De Domenico, M., Castaldo, N., Nicholls, T., & Nielsen, R. K. (2021, May 27). Narratives and Patterns of Toxicity of Covid-19 Conversations on Social Media: A Comparison across 6 Countries. In International Communication Association conference.
Driven to Distraction? The Impact of the Brexit Preparations on Bureaucratic Performance
Elston, T., & Nicholls, T. (2021, March 29). Driven to Distraction? The Impact of the Brexit Preparations on Bureaucratic Performance. In Political Studies Association Conference. Belfast.
Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities
Nicholls, T., & Culpepper, P. D. (2021). Computational Identification of Media Frames: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION, 38(1-2), 159-181. doi:10.1080/10584609.2020.1812777
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Nicholls, T. (2021). tm.plugin.proquest (Version 1.0) [Computer Software]. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4574613
The role of suspended accounts in political discussion on social media: analysis of the 2017 French, UK and German elections
Majo-Vazquez, S., Congosto, M., Nicholls, T., & Nielsen, R. K. (2021). The Role of Suspended Accounts in Political Discussion on Social Media: Analysis of the 2017 French, UK and German Elections. SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY, 7(3). doi:10.1177/20563051211027202
2020
Computational identification of media frames: strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities
Nicholls, T., & Culpepper, P. (2020). Computational identification of media frames: strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. doi:10.31235/osf.io/5rysm
Splitting the Tactical Vote? Coordination Problems with Polling Model‐Driven Tactical Voting Websites
Nicholls, T., & Hayton, R. (2020). Splitting the Tactical Vote? Coordination Problems with Polling Model-Driven Tactical Voting Websites. POLITICAL QUARTERLY, 91(1), 61-69. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.12822
2019
Local Government Performance, Cost‐Effectiveness, and Use of the Web: An Empirical Analysis
Nicholls, T. (2019). Local Government Performance, Cost-Effectiveness, and Use of the Web: An Empirical Analysis. POLICY AND INTERNET, 11(4), 480-507. doi:10.1002/poi3.209
Churnalism and wire copy: a comparative analysis of textual reuse in UK and US online news
Nicholls, T., & Graves, L. (2019, September 16). Churnalism and wire copy: a comparative analysis of textual reuse in UK and US online news. In International Journal of Press/Politics conference. Loughborough, UK.
Detecting Textual Reuse in News Stories, At Scale
Nicholls, T. (2019). Detecting Textual Reuse in News Stories, At Scale. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 13, 4173-4197. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Full-population web crawl of .gov.uk web domain, 2014
Nicholls, T. (2019). Full-population web crawl of .gov.uk web domain, 2014. UK Data Service. doi:10.5255/UKDA-SN-852205
Data processing and analysis code for 'Detecting Textual Reuse in News Stories, At Scale' in the International Journal of Communication
Nicholls, T. (2019). Data processing and analysis code for 'Detecting Textual Reuse in News Stories, At Scale' in the International Journal of Communication. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3338003
Tool demo: RISJbot – a web crawler for collecting structured news article content at scale
Nicholls, T. (2019, May 24). Tool demo: RISJbot – a web crawler for collecting structured news article content at scale. In ICA annual conference. Washington, DC.
Computational methods for inductively extracting media frames: a comparative analysis
Nicholls, T. (2019). Computational methods for inductively extracting media frames: a comparative analysis. In ICA annual conference. Washington, DC.
Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques
Nicholls, T., & Bright, J. (2019). Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques. Communication Methods and Measures, 13, 43-59. doi:10.1080/19312458.2018.1536972
2018
The role of suspended accounts in political discussion on social media: analysis of the 2017 French, UK and German elections
Majó-Vázquez, S., Congosto, M., Nicholls, T., & Nielsen, R. K. (2018). The role of suspended accounts in political discussion on social media: analysis of the 2017 French, UK and German elections. In European Symposium on Computational Social Science. Cologne.
RISJbot: a scrapy project to extract the text and metadata of articles from news websites
Nicholls, T. (2018). RISJbot: a scrapy project to extract the text and metadata of articles from news websites (Version 1.1) [Computer Software]. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.1341873
Code and data for "Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques"
Nicholls, T., & Bright, J. (2018). Code and data for "Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1205036
Churnalism, press releases and wire copy: detecting textual reuse in large news corpora
Nicholls, T. (2018). Churnalism, press releases and wire copy: detecting textual reuse in large news corpora. In ICA annual conference. Prague.
Coming of age: developments in digital-born news media in Europe
Nicholls, T., Shabbir, N., Graves, L., & Nielsen, R. K. (2018). Coming of age: developments in digital-born news media in Europe. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved from https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/
Understanding news stories by clustering articles: an Information Retrieval approach
Nicholls, T., & Bright, J. (2018). Understanding news stories by clustering articles: an Information Retrieval approach. In ICA annual conference (pp. 16 pages). Prague. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07988
2017
The global expansion of digital-born news media
Nicholls, T., Shabbir, N., & Nielsen, R. K. (2017). The global expansion of digital-born news media. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved from https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/
2016
Digital era local government in England: service reform and the Internet
Nicholls, T. (2016). Digital era local government in England: service reform and the Internet. (PhD Thesis, University of Oxford). Retrieved from https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d85d7964-80d2-4b6d-bfac-418ed4f0fa6a
handclassifier: rapidly categorise web archive content
Nicholls, T., & Bright, J. (2016). handclassifier: rapidly categorise web archive content (Version 0.5) [Computer Software]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.44358
Digital-born news media in Europe
Nicholls, T., Shabbir, N., & Nielsen, R. K. (2016). Digital-born news media in Europe. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved from http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/
2015
Web crawling for big data in political science
Nicholls, T. (2015). Web crawling for big data in political science. In PSA Quantitative Network Conference (pp. 18 pages). Oxford.
2014
Warctika: Python library for processing WARC files through Apache Tika
Nicholls, T. (2014). Warctika: Python library for processing WARC files through Apache Tika (Version 1.0) [Computer Software]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.12183
Crowdsourcing measurement of e-government usability
Nicholls, T., & Gray, S. (2014). Crowdsourcing measurement of e-government usability. In Internet, Politics and Policy Conference (pp. 19 pages). Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4b95b5a8-7275-44c6-8ed3-21517943b766
Internet use and English local government performance: an empirical assessment
Nicholls, T. (2014). Internet use and English local government performance: an empirical assessment. In European Group for Public Administration (pp. 29 pages). Speyer, Germany. Retrieved from https://www.scss.tcd.ie/
The Life and Death of Political News: Measuring the Impact of the Audience Agenda Using Online Data
Bright, J., & Nicholls, T. (2014). The Life and Death of Political News: Measuring the Impact of the Audience Agenda Using Online Data. SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER REVIEW, 32(2), 170-181. doi:10.1177/0894439313506845
2013
An Empirical Analysis of Internet Top-Level Domain Policy
Nicholls, T. (2013). An Empirical Analysis of Internet Top-Level Domain Policy. Journal of Information Policy, 3, 464-484. doi:10.5325/jinfopoli.3.2013.0464