CC Lab
@ University of Exeter
We are interested in understanding how
information is organised, used, and misused.
In our research, we develop new computational tools to study the media we produce and consume, the beliefs we hold, the stories we tell, the language we use, as well as the opinions, ideas, and narratives we propagate – in other words, we study the evolution of information.
In this process, we draw a lot from complex systems, data science, mathematical modelling, as well as from communication studies, sociology, psychology, and cultural evolution.
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Recent news
October 2023: Francisco Gonzalez, Ned Westwood, Thales David Domingues Aparecido and Marina Kawamura join the lab. Welcome all!
June 2023: The Viu Política project's results are finally out, along with all data from the RegretsReporter projects! Coverage by Folha de São Paulo, Mozilla, and the University of Exeter.
May 2023: Our paper on the Bias in the arrival of variation can dominate over natural selection in Richard Dawkins' biomorphs is now on bioRxiv!
October 2022: Manju Bura, Emily Robinson, Owen Saunders, and Luiz Neves join the lab. Welcome all!
October 2022: New project: the Viu Política project, led by the CC Lab, along with Instituto Vero and the Mozilla Foundation, will produce a crowdsourced map of Brazilian election coverage on YouTube. Coverage by Folha de São Paulo and the University of Exeter.
September 2022: New paper alert! Mis- and disinformation studies are too big to fail: Six suggestions for the field’s future, out on the HKS Misinformation Review.
September 2022: The second report of the Mozilla YouTube Regrets project is out! Coverage on Wired, Süddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times, and Sky News.
Previous news can be found in our news archive.