António Fonseca
Biographic Data
| ID | 3925320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | António Fonseca |
| GIVEN NAMES | António |
| FAMILY NAME | Fonseca |
| SIGNATURE | FONSECA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5483-421X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caste in social media
Caste-based social exclusion in India continues to manifest as a deeply entrenched structural inequality, now extending into the digital sphere. This study investigates how caste-related narratives are articulated, contested, and emotionally responded to in social media discourse, specifically on Facebook. Using a dataset of over 250,000 user comments on caste-related news posts by major Indian newspapers (2012–2024), this research applies advanc…
Unpacking online hate speech in Portuguese social media
Building on social psychology and language sciences, this research identified core social psychological, and linguistic-discursive features of online hate speech targeting racialized, migrant and LGBTI+ communities in two social media platforms in Portugal: YouTube, and Twitter/X. The research was based on the analysis of two annotated corpora comprising 24,739 YouTube comments and associated replies, and 29,758 contextualized tweets retrieved fr…
A comprehensive review on automatic hate speech detection in the age of the transformer
The rapid proliferation of hate speech on social media poses significant challenges to maintaining a safe and inclusive digital environment. This paper presents a comprehensive review of automatic hate speech detection methods, with a particular focus on the evolution of approaches from traditional machine learning and deep learning models to the more advanced Transformer-based architectures. We systematically analyze over 100 studies, comparing …
Caste in the News
Conflicts involving caste issues, mainly concerning the lowest caste rights, pervade modern Indian society. Caste affiliation, being rigorously enforced by the society, is an official contemporary reality. Although caste identity is a major social discrimination, it also serves as a necessary condition for affirmative action like reservation policy. In this article, we perform an original and rigorous analysis of the discourse involving the theme…
How Things Become Popular
This work discusses the mechanisms of popularity generation on the Internet. What we propose here is a model that replicates the statistical distribution profile of popularity. It is a probabilistic model of the number of individuals who read, hear or see, and then replicate a message, and parameterizes an individual’s preference for either new or older messages. Messages can gain in popularity according to a process of paying attention and the r…
Psychological Skills Training Applied to Soccer
Behavioral and Emotional Problems Reported by Parents of Children Ages 6 to 16 in 31 Societies
This study compared parents' ratings of behavioral and emotional problems on the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, 1991;Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) for general population samples of children ages 6 to 16 from 31 societies ( N = 55,508). Effect sizes for society ranged from .03 to .14. Effect sizes for gender were ≤ .01, with girls generally scoring higher on Internalizing problems and boys generally scoring higher on Externalizing problems. Ef…
Caste in the News
Conflicts involving caste issues, mainly concerning the lowest caste rights, pervade modern Indian society. Caste affiliation, being rigorously enforced by the society, is an official contemporary reality. Although caste identity is a major social discrimination, it also serves as a necessary condition for affirmative action like reservation policy. In this article, we perform an original and rigorous analysis of the discourse involving the theme…
Behavioral and Emotional Problems Reported by Parents of Children Ages 6 to 16 in 31 Societies
This study compared parents' ratings of behavioral and emotional problems on the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, 1991;Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) for general population samples of children ages 6 to 16 from 31 societies ( N = 55,508). Effect sizes for society ranged from .03 to .14. Effect sizes for gender were ≤ .01, with girls generally scoring higher on Internalizing problems and boys generally scoring higher on Externalizing problems. Ef…
Psychological Skills Training Applied to Soccer
How Things Become Popular
This work discusses the mechanisms of popularity generation on the Internet. What we propose here is a model that replicates the statistical distribution profile of popularity. It is a probabilistic model of the number of individuals who read, hear or see, and then replicate a message, and parameterizes an individual’s preference for either new or older messages. Messages can gain in popularity according to a process of paying attention and the r…
Caste in the News
Conflicts involving caste issues, mainly concerning the lowest caste rights, pervade modern Indian society. Caste affiliation, being rigorously enforced by the society, is an official contemporary reality. Although caste identity is a major social discrimination, it also serves as a necessary condition for affirmative action like reservation policy. In this article, we perform an original and rigorous analysis of the discourse involving the theme…
A comprehensive review on automatic hate speech detection in the age of the transformer
The rapid proliferation of hate speech on social media poses significant challenges to maintaining a safe and inclusive digital environment. This paper presents a comprehensive review of automatic hate speech detection methods, with a particular focus on the evolution of approaches from traditional machine learning and deep learning models to the more advanced Transformer-based architectures. We systematically analyze over 100 studies, comparing …
Unpacking online hate speech in Portuguese social media
Building on social psychology and language sciences, this research identified core social psychological, and linguistic-discursive features of online hate speech targeting racialized, migrant and LGBTI+ communities in two social media platforms in Portugal: YouTube, and Twitter/X. The research was based on the analysis of two annotated corpora comprising 24,739 YouTube comments and associated replies, and 29,758 contextualized tweets retrieved fr…
Caste in social media
Caste-based social exclusion in India continues to manifest as a deeply entrenched structural inequality, now extending into the digital sphere. This study investigates how caste-related narratives are articulated, contested, and emotionally responded to in social media discourse, specifically on Facebook. Using a dataset of over 250,000 user comments on caste-related news posts by major Indian newspapers (2012–2024), this research applies advanc…
Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (2 works) · Caste (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Communication and Language (2 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social media (2 works) · Behavior problem (1 works) · Brazilian Portuguese (1 works)