Internet banging: New trends in social media, gang violence, masculinity and hip hop. - Desmond Upton Patton; Robert D. Eschmann; Dirk A. Butler (Comput. Hum. Behav., 2013)

Social media as a vector for youth violence: A review of the literature. - Desmond Upton Patton; Jun Sung Hong; Megan Ranney; Sadiq Patel; Caitlin Kelley; Robert D. Eschmann; Tyreasa Washington (Comput. Hum. Behav., 2014)

Automatically Processing Tweets from Gang-Involved Youth: Towards Detecting Loss and Aggression. - Terra Blevins; Robert Kwiatkowski; Jamie Macbeth 001; Kathleen R. McKeown; Desmond Upton Patton; Owen Rambow (COLING, 2016)

Sticks, stones and Facebook accounts: What violence outreach workers know about social media and urban-based gang violence in Chicago. - Desmond Upton Patton; Robert D. Eschmann; Caitlin Elsaesser; Eddie Bocanegra (Comput. Hum. Behav., 2016)

Using Natural Language Processing and Qualitative Analysis to Intervene in Gang Violence: A Collaboration Between Social Work Researchers and Data Scientists. - Desmond Upton Patton; Kathleen R. McKeown; Owen Rambow; Jamie Macbeth 001 (CoRR, 2016)

Gang violence on the digital street: Case study of a South Side Chicago gang member's Twitter communication. - Desmond Upton Patton; Jeffrey Lane; Patrick Leonard; Jamie Macbeth 001; Jocelyn R. Smith Lee (New Media Soc., 2017)

Detecting Gang-Involved Escalation on Social Media Using Context. - Serina Chang; Ruiqi Zhong; Ethan Adams; Fei-Tzin Lee; Siddharth Varia; Desmond Patton; William R. Frey; Chris Kedzie; Kathy McKeown (EMNLP, 2018)

An Overview of Computational Approaches for Analyzing Interpretation. - Philipp Blandfort; Jörn Hees; Desmond Upton Patton (CoRR, 2018)

Expressions of loss predict aggressive comments on Twitter among gang-involved youth in Chicago. - Desmond Upton Patton; Owen Rambow; Jonathan Auerbach; Kevin Li; William R. Frey (npj Digit. Medicine, 2018)

Detecting and Reducing Bias in a High Stakes Domain. - Ruiqi Zhong; Yanda Chen; Desmond Patton; Charlotte Selous; Kathy McKeown (EMNLP/IJCNLP (1), 2019)

Annotating Social Media Data From Vulnerable Populations: Evaluating Disagreement Between Domain Experts and Graduate Student Annotators. - Desmond Patton; Philipp Blandfort; William R. Frey; Michael B. Gaskell; Svebor Karaman (HICSS, 2019)

Multimodal Social Media Analysis for Gang Violence Prevention. - Philipp Blandfort; Desmond Upton Patton; William R. Frey; Svebor Karaman; Surabhi Bhargava; Fei-Tzin Lee; Siddharth Varia; Chris Kedzie; Michael B. Gaskell; Rossano Schifanella; Kathleen R. McKeown; Shih-Fu Chang (ICWSM, 2019)

Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing. - Desmond Upton Patton; William R. Frey; Kyle A. McGregor; Fei-Tzin Lee; Kathleen R. McKeown; Emanuel Moss (AIES, 2020)

Social work thinking for UX and AI design. - Desmond Upton Patton (Interactions, 2020)

SafeText: A Benchmark for Exploring Physical Safety in Language Models. - Sharon Levy; Emily Allaway; Melanie Subbiah; Lydia B. Chilton; Desmond Patton; Kathleen R. McKeown; William Yang Wang (EMNLP, 2022)

Mitigating Covertly Unsafe Text within Natural Language Systems. - Alex Mei; Anisha Kabir; Sharon Levy; Melanie Subbiah; Emily Allaway; John Judge; Desmond Patton; Bruce Bimber; Kathleen R. McKeown; William Yang Wang (EMNLP (Findings), 2022)

Considerations for development of child abuse and neglect phenotype with implications for reduction of racial bias: a qualitative study. - Aviv Y. Landau; Ashley Blanchard; Kenrick Cato; Nia Atkins; Stephanie Salazar; Desmond Upton Patton; Maxim Topaz (J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2022)

Developing machine learning-based models to help identify child abuse and neglect: key ethical challenges and recommended solutions. - Aviv Y. Landau; Susi Ferrarello; Ashley Blanchard; Kenrick Cato; Nia Atkins; Stephanie Salazar; Desmond Upton Patton; Maxim Topaz (J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2022)

Evaluation of African American Language Bias in Natural Language Generation. - Nicholas Deas; Jessica Grieser; Shana Kleiner; Desmond Patton; Elsbeth Turcan; Kathleen R. McKeown (EMNLP, 2023)

Applying Reflexivity to Artificial Intelligence for Researching Marginalized Communities and Real-World Problems. - Nathan Aguilar; Aviv Y. Landau; Siva Mathiyazhagan; Alex Auyeung; Sarah Dillard; Desmond Patton (HICSS, 2023)

Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning and Electronic Health Records to Support Child Abuse and Neglect Identification in Emergency Department Settings. - Aviv Y. Landau; Ashley Blanchard; Paritosh Kulkarni; Shahad Althobaiti; Betina Idnay; Desmond Upton Patton; Kenrick Cato; Maxim Topaz (MIE, 2024)

Data Caricatures: On the Representation of African American Language in Pretraining Corpora. - Nicholas Deas; Blake Vente; Amith Ananthram; Jessica Grieser; Desmond Upton Patton; Shana Kleiner; James R. Shepard III; Kathleen McKeown (ACL (1), 2025)

Digital mourning in tweets: Multimodal analysis of image-based grieving practices among gang-affiliated Black youth. - Nathan Aguilar; Aviv Y. Landau; Kauai A Taylor; Shana Kleiner; Desmond Upton Patton (New Media Soc., 2025)

Unmasking camouflage: exploring the challenges of large language models in deciphering African American language & online performativity. - Shana Kleiner; Jessica Grieser; Shug Miller; James Shepard; Javier Garcia-Perez; Nicholas Deas; Desmond Upton Patton; Elsbeth Turcan; Kathleen R. McKeown (AI Ethics, 2025)

Towards just and equitable Web3: social work recommendations for inclusive practice of AI policies. - Siva Mathiyazhagan; Desmond Upton Patton (AI Soc., 2025)