September 2024: Kamila is awarded the Faculty Commendation in recognition of her significant contribution to the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy and Dean’s Commendation for Exceptional Performance, an outstanding achievement only awarded to the highest performing students in the College. Well done Kamila!
September 2024: Carlos Gontijo Rosa joins the lab as a visiting professor, working on computational discourse analysis. Welcome Carlos!
July 2024: Manju organises and runs a workshop on Exploring Narratives of Heatwaves in Nepal, as part of the GSI Annual Conference. Great job Manju!
July 2024: Ned and Aditi present at the International Conference on Social Media & Society, in London.
May 2024: Manju attends the Britain-Nepal Academic Council Conference, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the DATAMIG (Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control), in Greece.
May 2024: Emily, Ned, Francisco, Hubert, and Chico present at COMPTEXT 2024, the International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text-, Image- and Video-as-Data, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
April 2024: Chico got promoted to Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Exeter.
April 2024: Owen, Aditi, and Chico present at Complenet 2024, the International Conference on Complex Networks, held in Exeter this year.
March 2024: Chico, Ned, Francisco, and Emily join the newly-founded Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) at Exeter. Lots of good climate communications research to come!
March 2024: Chico is one of the six University of Exeter academics to secure a Turing Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute. Congrats to all the new fellows!
March 2024: Aditi speaks at the Political Science Association (PSA) annual conference, in Glasgow, Scotland.
February 2024: Hubert visits Ewha Womans University, in Seoul, Korea, to give a talk on the digital dynamics of #MeToo, as part of their IEAS Special Lecture Series.
February 2024: Aditi joins GESIS as a visiting Junior Researcher, working with Claudia Wagner on the computational detection of benevolent and implicit forms of sexism.
January 2024: Owen presents his comparative analysis of scientific and everyday concept networks at NetSciX 2024, the signature winter conference of the Network Science Society, in Venice, Italy.
February 2024: Chico joins the Department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea as a visiting professor.
January 2024: Kamila Szelag-Levine joins the lab. Welcome Kamila!
October 2023: Francisco Gonzalez, Ned Westwood, Thales David Domingues Aparecido and Marina Kawamura join the lab. Welcome all!
August 2023: Isaac Cheng received a Dean's Commendation for exceptional Academic Performance, and won the Computer Science Final Year Project Prize in 2022/2023. Congratulations Isaac!
August 2023: Cameron Stackhouse received a Dean’s Commendation for exceptional Academic Performance in 2022/2023. Congratulations Cameron!
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 [1] [2] [3], 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!
February 2023: Our paper on the Impact of network centrality and income on slowing infection spread after outbreaks is out on Applied Network Science.
November 2022: Our paper on Heritage site-seeing through the visitor's lens on Instagram is out on the Journal of Cultural Analytics!
November 2022: Congratulations to Kien Khuong for winning the MSc Academic Award for the student with the best overall score on a Computer Science MSc Programmme! Well done Kien!
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.
October 2022: Congratulations to Chico on winning the Bright Futures Award for Early Career Research Impact category at the University of Exeter's Knowledge Exchange Awards!
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.
July 2022: Our conference paper on measuring news article similarity in multiple languages is out at SemEval 2022!
July 2022: Congratulations to Izzy Sebire for winning the Computer Science Final Year Project Prize! Well done Izzy!
June 2022: Hubert Au and Aditi Dutta presented their PhD work at the Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) conference. Making the lab proud!
March 2022: Our paper on how symmetry and simplicity emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution is out on PNAS!
February 2022: Japleen, Anis, Valeria, Kien, Tawhid, Peilin Du, Shubham, Camila, and Mohammad Ali join the lab. Welcome all!
December 2021: Coverage on the Exeter Research and Innovation blog: New research from the University of Exeter and Mozilla investigates 'YouTube Regrets'
October 2021: Poonam, Henry, Jamie, Matt, Ioan, Ruth, and Hubert join the lab. Welcome all!
September 2021: Our paper measuring the volatility of the political agenda in public opinion and news media is out on Public Opinion Quarterly!
September 2021: Congratulations to Ben Dennes for winning the MSc Academic Award for the student with the best overall score on a Computer Science MSc Programmme! Well done Ben!
August 2021: Coverage on the Washington Post: Social media algorithms determine what we see. But we can’t see them.
August 2021: Interview to Tech Policy Press: Evaluating the Efficacy of the Term "Infodemic"
July 2021: Coverage on TechCrunch: YouTube’s recommender AI still a horror show, finds major crowdsourced study.
July 2021: Coverage on Vanity Fair: Study: many youtube users regret what they’ve clicked on
July 2021: Coverage on The Verge: Mozilla’s RegretsReporter data shows YouTube keeps recommending harmful videos.
July 2021: Our paper on the "infodemic" metaphor is out on New Media & Society!
July 2021: The Mozilla YouTube Regrets Reporter is out, with a little help from the CC Lab!
July 2021: We've started a new research project on measuring change in the meaning of political terms over time, funded by Exeter's Institute for Data Science and AI. Stay tuned!
June 2021: Izzy Sebire joins the lab to work on the computational analysis of genre. Welcome Izzy!
June 2021: Kacper Łodziński joins the lab to work on natural language processing and news media. Welcome Kacper!
May 2021: Tom Bush joins the lab to work on time series analysis of news articles. Welcome!
May 2021: Jiayi Xu joins the lab to work on computational genre classification. Welcome!
May 2021: Dharmender Tathgur joins the lab to work on NLP and political speeches. Welcome!
February 2021: Ben Dennes and Jagjot Singh join the lab to work on networked narratives and framing detection. Welcome both!
February 2021: Wu Yudong joins the lab as a MSc student to study the construction of scientific knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Welcome!
February 2021: Jaison John joins the lab as a MSc student. He will be working on document summarisation, being co-supervised by Alex Pavlides from Adarga AI. Welcome Jaison!
January 2021: Chico joins the University of Exeter and the CC Lab is born!