Stefanie Ullmann

About

Dr Stefanie Ullmann is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the project Giving Voice to Digital Democracies: The Social Impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology, funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation.

Stefanie studied English Linguistics and Web Technology at the University of Marburg in Germany. She completed her PhD in Linguistics focusing on a critical corpus-assisted study of media and political coverage of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions. The findings of her PhD were published by Routledge under the title Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics. Stefanie’s overall research interests and background are in functional linguistics, critical theory and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, new media and communication technologies as well as the instrumentalisation of language in states of socio-political conflict and crisis. Her most recent work has focused on quarantining online hate speech, misinformation, gender bias in machine translation, dynamic data statements and exploring counterspeech approaches to fighting hate speech. She is the editor of the anthology Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech, which is published in the Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society series

Selected publications

• Stefanie Ullmann and Marcus Tomalin (eds). 2024. Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Counterspee-ch-Multidisplinary-Perspectives-on-Countering-Dangerous-Speech/Ullmann-Tomalin/p/book/9781032454504
• Stefanie Ullmann. 2023. ‘The Representation of ‘Refugees’, ‘Migrants’ and ‘Migration’ in the British Media Discourse of 2015’. In Annamária Fábián (ed.), The representation of ´refugees´ and ´migrants´ in European national media discourses from 2015 to 2017: A contrastive approach (corpus linguistics). Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler. https://link.springer.com/book/9783662667767
• Stefanie Ullmann. 2022. ‘Gender bias in machine translation systems’. In Ariane Hanemaayer (ed.), Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents: Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 123–144. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88615-8_7
• Stefanie Ullmann. 2021. Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics. London:  Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Discourses-of-the-Arab-Revolutions-in-Media-and-Politics/Ullmann/p/book/9780367432379
• Marcus Tomalin, Bill Byrne, Shauna Concannon, Danielle Saunders and Stefanie Ullmann. 2021. ‘The practical ethics of bias reduction in machine translation: why domain adaptation is better than data debiasing’.  Ethics & Information Technology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-021-09583-1
• Stefanie Ullmann and Marcus Tomalin. 2019. ‘Quarantining Online Hate Speech: Technical and Ethical Perspectives’. Ethics & Information Technology 22:69–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-019-09516-z      
• Stefanie Ullmann. 2019. ‘Epistemic Stancetaking and Speaker Objectification in a Spatio-Cognitive Discourse World: A Critical Contrastive Analysis of Political Discourse’. Journal of Language & Politics 18(3): 393–419. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17038.ull
• Stefanie Ullmann. 2017. ‘Conceptualising Force in the Context of the Arab Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of International Mass Media Reports and Twitter Posts’. Discourse & Communication 11(2): 160–178. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1750481317691859

External events

• Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents. Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities
  Discussant at book launch with Ariane Hanemaayer
  Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town, 7 November 2022
• Combatting Hate Speech and Disinformation against Social Polarisation
  Panel with Handan Uslu, Kareem Darwish and Alex Mahadevan
  Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul, 7 October 2022
• (De)Polarization and the Role of Artificial Intelligence
  Online Panel with Marco Guerini and Riccardo Gallotti
  Bruno Kessler Foundation, Centre for Religious Studies, 12 May 2022
• Artificial intelligence and hate speech: opportunities and risks
  Online Panel with Claudia von Vacano and Berrin Yanıkoğlu
  Hrant Dink Foundation, 25 January 2022
• Disinformation and technologies
  Conference ‘Disinformation: Open Societies, Hidden Wars’
  Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Germany, 10-12 September 2021
• Covid-19, digital democracy and fake news
  Online Panel with Jon Roosenbeek and Nina Schick
  Hay Festival Winter Weekend, 27 November 2020
• Cambridge Festival 2022 speaker spotlight about ‘Combatting harmful content online: the potential of Counterspeech’

Media

• ARTE Square Idée, Intelligence artificielle: qui tient la langue? (Artificial Intelligence: Who owns the language?), 13 March 2023
• The Naked Scientists BBC Radio & Podcast, 10 March 2023
• Say That Again Slowly, Cambridge Festival Podcast, Counterspeech and online harms, 5 May 2022
• Deutschlandfunk Radio Computer und Kommunikation, “Hass im Internet: Es könnte eine Quarantäne für Hasskommentare geben” (Hate on the internet: there could be a quarantine for hate comments), 11 January 2020
• BBC World Service, Digital Planet, 25 November 2019