Yr Athro William Housley

PhD, DSc.Econ. FAcSS FLSW

2026

• crossref, Housley, W. et al. 2026. New directions in membership categorisation analysis. Studies in Pragmatics Vol. 28Brill. (10.1163/9789004751095)
• Housley, W. and Dahl, P. 2026. Digital society, interaction order and automation. Emerald Publishing Limited. (10.1108/978-1-83753-878-2)

2025

• Albert, S. et al., 2025. The conversational action test: detecting the artificial sociality of artificial intelligence. New Media and Society 27 (10), pp.5592-5621. (10.1177/14614448251338277)
• Housley, W. , Dahl, P. and Ablitt, J. 2025. Mundane civics, situated digital broadcast and membership categorisation analysis. In: Housley, W. et al., New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis. Brill

2024

• Housley, W. and Dahl, P. 2024. Membership categorisation, sociological description and role prompt engineering with ChatGPT. Discourse and Communication 18 (6), pp.848-858. (10.1177/17504813241267068)

2022

• Edwards, A. et al. 2022. Freedom of speech and online harm in liberal democracies: a triadic concept. In: Housley, W. et al., The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society - First Edition. London: SAGE. , pp.543-558.
• Housley, W. et al. 2022. The emerging contours of digital society: remastering, reconsideration, reorientation and new socio-digital domains. In: Housley, W. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society - First Edition. London: SAGE. , pp.3-18.
• Housley, W. et al., Housley, W. et al. 2022. The SAGE handbook of digital society. 1st Edition. London: SAGE.

2021

• Housley, W. 2021. Society in the digital age: an interactionist perspective. SAGE.
• Edwards, A. et al. 2021. Forecasting the governance of harmful social media communications: findings from the digital wildfire policy Delphi. Policing and Society 31 (1), pp.1-19. (10.1080/10439463.2020.1839073)

2020

• Smith, R. , Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. 2020. On Sacks: methdology, materials, and inspirations. Routledge.
• Housley, W. 2020. Harvey Sacks, Membership Categorization and Social Media. In: Smith, R. ed. On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations. Routledge. , pp.208-220.
• Stokoe, E. et al., 2020. Can humans simulate talking like other humans? Comparing simulated clients to real customers in service inquiries. Discourse Studies 22 (1), pp.87-109. (10.1177/1461445619887537)

2019

• Housley, W. , Albert, S. and Stokoe, E. 2019. Natural action processing: conversation analysis and big interactional data. Presented at: Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 Nottingham, UK 19-20 Nov 2019. Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019. Nottingham: HTTF. , pp.1-4. (10.1145/3363384.3363478)
• Housley, W. 2019. Sacks, Harvey. In: Atkinson, P. et al., Sage Research Methods. Sage(10.4135/9781526421036816094)
• Albert, S. , Housley, W. and Stokoe, E. 2019. In case of emergency, order pizza: an urgent case of action formation and recognition. Presented at: CUI 2019: 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces Dublin, Ireland 22-23 August 2019. CUI '19: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. ACM. , pp.1. (10.1145/3342775.3342800)
• Henwood, K. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2019. Qualitative research in reflexive mode: The participatory turn and interpretive social science. Qualitative Research 19 (3), pp.241-246. (10.1177/1468794119844103)
• Procter, R. et al., 2019. A study of cyber hate on Twitter with implications for social media governance strategies. arxiv.org (Cornell University)

2018

• Housley, W. 2018. Conversation analysis, publics, practitioners and citizen social science. Discourse Studies 20 (3), pp.431-437. (10.1177/1461445618754581)
• Housley, W. et al. 2018. Interaction and transformation on social media: the case of Twitter campaigns. Social Media and Society 4 (1), pp.1-12. (10.1177/2056305117750721)

2017

• Housley, W. et al. 2017. Qualitative methods and data in digital societies. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.607-609. (10.1177/1468794117730936)
• Housley, W. et al. 2017. Digitizing Sacks? Approaching social media as data. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.627-644. (10.1177/1468794117715063)
• Housley, W. et al. 2017. Membership categorisation and antagonistic Twitter formulations. Discourse and Communication 11 (6), pp.567-590. (10.1177/1750481317726932)
• Fitzgerald, R. , Housley, W. and Rintel, S. 2017. Membership Categorisation Analysis. Technologies of social action. Journal of Pragmatics 118 , pp.51-55. (10.1016/j.pragma.2017.07.012)
• Webb, H. et al., 2017. The ethical challenges of publishing Twitter data for research dissemination. Presented at: WebSci'17: ACM Web Science Conference Troy, NY, USA 25-28 June 2017. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. ACM. , pp.339-348. (10.1145/3091478.3091489)
• Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Interactionism and digital society. Qualitative Research 17 (2), pp.187-201. (10.1177/1468794116685142)
• Carrigan, M. and Housley, W. 2017. Social science & social futures: fast scholarship, emerging technologies & the future of inquiry. Discover Society DS40 (Focus)

2016

• Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The response in Twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37 (5), pp.392-395. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000377)
• Henwood, K. L. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2016. Editorial. Qualitative Research 16 (3), pp.257. (10.1177/1468794116638982)
• Webb, H. et al., 2016. Digital wildfires: propagation, verification, regulation, and responsible innovation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 34 (3) 15. (10.1145/2893478)

2015

• Webb, H. et al., 2015. Digital wildfires: hyper-connectivity, havoc, and a global ethos to govern social media. Computers and Society 45 (3), pp.193-201.
• Housley, W. 2015. The emerging contours of data science. Discover Society
• Housley, W. and Smith, R. 2015. Membership categorisation and methodological reasoning in research team interaction. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis. SAGE
• Whittle, A. et al., 2015. Category predication work, discursive leadership and strategic sensemaking. Human Relations 68 (3), pp.377-407. (10.1177/0018726714528253)
• Housley, W. et al. 2015. Editorial. Qualitative Research 15 (1), pp.3-3. (10.1177/1468794114567381)
• Burnap, P. et al. 2015. COSMOS: Towards an integrated and scalable service for analysing social media on demand. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 30 (2), pp.80-100. (10.1080/17445760.2014.902057)
• Burnap, P. et al. 2015. Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis. Technological Forecasting & Social Change 95 , pp.96-108. (10.1016/j.techfore.2013.04.013)
• Housley, W. 2015. Defining the situation in collaborative interdisciplinary team work. Presented at: 14th International Pragmatics Association Conference Antwerp, Belgium 26-31 July 2015.
• Housley, W. et al. 2015. Social media and civil society: participation, regulation and governance. Presented at: WISERD 2015 Annual Conference Cardiff, Wales 30 June - 2 July 2015.
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2015. Advances in membership categorisation analysis. SAGE.
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2015. Introduction to membership categorisation analysis. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis. SAGE. , pp.1-22.

2014

• Burnap, P. et al. 2014. Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack. Social Network Analysis and Mining 4 206. (10.1007/s13278-014-0206-4)
• Housley, W. 2014. Varieties of narrative analysis [Book Review]. Qualitative Research 14 (3), pp.386-388. (10.1177/1468794113503103)
• Housley, W. et al. 2014. Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: a collaborative response. Big Data & Society 1 (2)(10.1177/2053951714545135)
• Whittle, A. et al., 2014. Power, politics and organizational communication: an ethnomethodological perspective. In: Cooren, F. et al., Language and communication at work: discourse, narrativity and organizing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.71-94.

2013

• Burnap, P. et al. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: Web Observatory Launch, Royal Society London, UK 2013.
• Burnap, P. et al. 2013. Detecting tension in social media. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications Karlsruhe, Germany 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013.
• Edwards, A. M. et al. 2013. Digital social research, social media and the sociological imagination: Surrogacy, augmentation and re-orientation. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16 (3), pp.245-260. (10.1080/13645579.2013.774185)
• Housley, W. et al. 2013. COSMOS: theory, method and data. Presented at: Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick Warwick, UK 2013.
• Housley, W. , Williams, M. L. and Edwards, A. M. 2013. Demonstration of pre-alpha COSMOS. Presented at: Invited Presentation Brisbane, Australia 2013.
• Housley, W. et al. 2013. Special issue: Introduction. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16 (3), pp.173-175. (10.1080/13645579.2013.774164)
• Rob, P. et al., 2013. Enabling social media research through citizen social science. Presented at: 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Paphos, Cyprus 21-25 September 2013.
• Sloan, L. et al. 2013. Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving sociologically relevant demographics from Twitter. Sociological Research Online 18 (3) 7. (10.5153/sro.3001)
• Sloan, L. et al. 2013. The Collaborative Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science? Blurring the Boundaries: One Year On London, UK 2013.
• Sloan, L. et al. 2013. Using social media with survey data. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science? London, UK 2013.
• Williams, M. L. et al. 2013. Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: Tension monitoring and social media networks. Policing and Society 23 (4), pp.461-481. (10.1080/10439463.2013.780225)
• Williams, M. L. et al. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: COSMOS Launch London, England 2013.

2012

• Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics (a research note). Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Working paper 153: social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics 2012 [working paper]. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/Working%20Paper%20153%20-%20Burnap%20et%20al.%20(2013)%20Social%20Media%20Analysis,%20Twitter%20and%20the%20London%20Olympics%202012%20-%20A%20Research%20Note.pdf.
• Edwards, A. M. et al. 2012. Mining tension and cohesion using the Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: NCRM, Research Methods Festival,St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.
• Housley, W. 2012. Analysing practical and professional texts: A naturalistic approach [book review]. Qualitative Research 12 (1), pp.92-94. (10.1177/1468794111421229)
• Housley, W. 2012. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and educational settings. In: Delamont, S. ed. Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education. Edward Elgar Publishing. , pp.446-449.
• Housley, W. et al. 2012. Supporting empirical digital social research for the social sciences. Presented at: Digital Research 2012 Conference, St Catherines College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.
• Williams, M. D. et al. 2012. Computational social science and methodological innovation: surrogacy, augmentation or reorientation. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: Blurring the boundaries: New social media, new social science? London, UK 2012.
• Williams, M. L. et al. 2012. Treating social media as data: computational sociological Methods, data analysis and the Cardiff online social media Observatory. Presented at: NCRM, Research Methods Festival, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.
• Williams, M. L. , Edwards, A. M. and Housley, W. 2012. Big data and criminology. Presented at: CCLJ Postgraduate Conference on Theory and Method in Criminological Research Cardiff, UK 2012.
• Williams, M. L. et al. 2012. Computational and transformational social science. Presented at: Digital Social Research Experts Meeting, Keble College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK 2012.

2011

• Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Telling the CAQDAS code: Membership categorization and the accomplishment of ‘coding rules’ in research team talk. Discourse Studies 13 (4), pp.417-434. (10.1177/1461445611403258)
• Housley, W. 2011. Organisation, interaction and practice: studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis [book review]. Qualitative Research 11 (1), pp.105-107. (10.1177/14687941110110010703)
• Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Mundane reason, membership categorization practices and the everyday ontology of space and place in interview talk. Qualitative Research 11 (6), pp.698-715. (10.1177/1468794111415960)

2010

• Housley, W. 2010. Reductionism in qualitative methods (Methodological Innovation Stream). Presented at: BSA Annual Conference Glasgow, UK 2010.
• Housley, W. 2010. The new political sociology: power, ideology and identity in the age of complexity – By Graham Taylor. The Sociological Review 58 (4), pp.701-703. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01948.x)
• Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2010. Innovation and reduction in contemporary qualitative methods: the case of conceptual coupling, activity-type pairs and auto-ethnography. Sociological Research Online 15 (4) 9. (10.5153/sro.2216)

2009

• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. eds. 2009. Media, policy and interaction. Aldershot: Ashgate. (10.4324/9781315594545)
• Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. 2009. Media, policy and interaction: introduction. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Media, Policy and Interaction. Farnham: Ashgate. , pp.1-12.
• Fitzgerald, R. , Housley, W. and Butler, C. W. 2009. Omnirelevance and interactional context. Australian Journal of Communication 36 (3), pp.45-64.
• Housley, W. 2009. Brand, identity or citizenship (Stream on Welsh identity and devolution). Presented at: BSA Annual Conference Cardiff, UK 16th-18th April 2009.
• Housley, W. 2009. Interaction, discourse and the subject. Subjectivity 26 (1), pp.69-86. (10.1057/sub.2008.33)
• Housley, W. 2009. The ordering of relations: Jaynesian psycho-history, bicameralism and post-individual digital subjectivity. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp129.pdf.
• Housley, W. 2009. Visions of Wales: visual artists and cultural futures. Cultural Sociology 3 (1), pp.147-164. (10.1177/1749975508100675)
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2009. Beyond the discursive: the case of social organization -- a reply to Edwards, Hepburn and Potter. Qualitative Research 9 (1), pp.129-133. (10.1177/1468794108095076)
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2009. Membership categorization, culture and norms in action. Discourse & Society 20 (3), pp.345-362. (10.1177/0957926509102405)
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2009. Membership category work in policy debate. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Media, Policy and Interaction. Farnham: Ashgate. , pp.13-26.
• Housley, W. , Moles, K. and Smith, R. 2009. Identity, brand or citizenship: the case of post-devolution Wales. Contemporary Wales 22 (1), pp.196-210.
• Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason and the politics of space. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference Manchester, UK August 2009.
• Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason, ontology and the politics of space. Presented at: Sociological Review Conference- The Politics of Imagination Stratford, UK May 2009.

2008

• Atkinson, P. A. , Delamont, S. and Housley, W. 2008. Contours of culture : complex ethnography and the ethnography of complexity. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
• Fitzgerald, R. , Jaworski, A. and Housley, W. 2008. Generating news: agenda setting in radio broadcast news. In: Burger, M. ed. L'analyse linguistique des discours médiatiques: Entre sciences du langage et sciences de la communication. Québec: Les Éditons Nota bene. , pp.133-151.
• Fitzgerald, R. , Housley, W. and Butler, C. 2008. Omni-relevance and interactional context. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp109.pdf.
• Housley, W. 2008. LARRY T. REYNOLDS and NANCY J. HERMAN--KINNEY, Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. Walnut Tree, CA: Altamira Press, 2003, 1077 pp. ISBN 0 7591 0092 6. $110.00 [Book Review]. Qualitative Research 8 (2), pp.266-267. (10.1177/14687941080080020606)
• Housley, W. 2008. Media, categorization, policy and debate. Presented at: International Sociological Association (ISA) Barcelona, Spain 5-8 September, 2008.
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2008. Motives and social organization: sociological amnesia, psychological description and the analysis of accounts. Qualitative Research 8 (2), pp.237-256. (10.1177/1468794107087483)
• Housley, W. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. 2008. Theorizing the democratic gaze: Visitors' experiences of the new Welsh Assembly. Sociology 42 (4), pp.726-744. (10.1177/0038038508091625)

2007

• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2007. Categorization, interaction, policy and debate. Critical Discourse Studies 4 (2), pp.187-206. (10.1080/17405900701464840)
• Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. 2007. Talkback, community and the public sphere. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (122), pp.150-163.
• Housley, W. 2007. Wales, art, narrative and devolution. Contemporary Wales 19 (1), pp.57-76.

2006

• Bailey, N. J. , Housley, W. and Belcher, P. M. 2006. Navigation, interaction and bridge team work. The Sociological Review 54 (2), pp.342-362. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00617.x)
• Housley, W. 2006. Artists, art worlds and studios: a research note from Wales. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Housley, W. 2006. Membership categorisation analysis, sequences and meeting talk. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Housley, W. 2006. Wales, identity and cultural modernization. Contemporary Wales 18 (1), pp.156-166.
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2006. Conversation analysis, practitioner based research, reflexivity and reflective practice: Some exploratory remarks.. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2003

• Atkinson, P. A. and Housley, W. 2003. Interactionism. BSA new horizons in sociology London: Sage.
• Housley, W. 2003. Art, Wales, discourse and devolution. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Housley, W. 2003. Interaction in multidisciplinary teams. Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2003. Moral discrepancy and political discourse: Accountability and the allocation of blame in a political news interview. Sociological Research Online 8 (2)

2002

• Housley, W. 2002. Moral discrepancy device and 'fudging the issue' in a radio news interview. Sociology 36 (1), pp.5-22. (10.1177/0038038502036001001)
• Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. 2002. Identity, categorization and sequential organization: the sequential and categorial flow of identity in a radio phone-in. Discourse & Society 13 (5), pp.579-602. (10.1177/0957926502013005275)
• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2002. The reconsidered model of membership categorisation analysis. Qualitative research 2 (1), pp.59-83. (10.1177/1468794102002001639)
• Housley, W. and Latimer, J. E. 2002. Doing Qualitative Research - David Silverman. [Book Review]. The Sociological Review 50 (1), pp.140-141. (10.1111/1467-954X.00359)

2001

• Housley, W. and Fitzgerald, R. 2001. Categorisation, narrative and devolution in Wales. Sociological Research Online 6 (2), pp.U127-U145.

2000

• Housley, W. 2000. Category work and knowledgeability within multidisciplinary team meetings. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse 20 (1), pp.83-108. (10.1515/text.1.2000.20.1.83)
• Housley, W. 2000. Story, narrative and team work. The Sociological Review 48 (3), pp.425-443. (10.1111/1467-954X.00224)

1999

• Housley, W. 1999. Role as an interactional device and resource in multidisciplinary team meetings. Sociological Research Online 4 (3)(10.5153/sro.315)