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“The pingdemic has been a greater challenge than Covid itself”: semantic prosodies in UK newspaper articles during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Nichele, E., Clos, J., & Fischer, J. E. (2023). “The pingdemic has been a greater challenge than Covid itself”: semantic prosodies in UK newspaper articles during the pandemic. SN Social Sciences, 3(9), Article 146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00740-5

In July 2021, the UK recorded an increase in self-isolation notifications to the users of the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app. The term pingdemic was coined and used widely in the media to refer to this period of increased notifications. Whilst exis... Read More about “The pingdemic has been a greater challenge than Covid itself”: semantic prosodies in UK newspaper articles during the pandemic.

“The algorithm will screw you”: Blame, social actors and the 2020 A Level results algorithm on Twitter (2023)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Nichele, E., Clos, J., & Fischer, J. E. (2023). “The algorithm will screw you”: Blame, social actors and the 2020 A Level results algorithm on Twitter. PLoS ONE, 18(7), Article e0288662. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288662

In August 2020, the UK government and regulation body Ofqual replaced school examinations with automatically computed A Level grades in England and Wales. This algorithm factored in school attainment in each subject over the previous three years. Gov... Read More about “The algorithm will screw you”: Blame, social actors and the 2020 A Level results algorithm on Twitter.

Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, J., Clos, J., Price, D., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023, July). Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living. Presented at TAS '23: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, UK

Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical systems that simulate real-world scenarios to optimize system performance, reduce physical losses, and ensure user safety. Although digital twins have been widely adopted in industrial settings, there is... Read More about Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living.

A Privacy-Preserving Observatory of Misinformation using Linguistic Markers - A Work in Progress (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clos, J., McClaughlin, E., Barnard, P., Tom, T., & Yajaman, S. (2023, July). A Privacy-Preserving Observatory of Misinformation using Linguistic Markers - A Work in Progress. Presented at TAS '23: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, UK

Online misinformation is a serious problem that can have a negative impact on individuals, societies, and democracies. It can lead to the spread of false information, the erosion of trust in institutions, and the polarisation of political discourse.... Read More about A Privacy-Preserving Observatory of Misinformation using Linguistic Markers - A Work in Progress.

Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Report
Adolphs, S., McAuley, D., Vilar-Lluch, S., Knight, D., McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Clos, J., Barnard, P., Parnell, T., & Lang, A. (2023). Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nottingham: University of Nottingham