Dr EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN's Outputs (5)

LOOM: a Privacy-Preserving Linguistic Observatory of Online Misinformation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clos, J., McClaughlin, E., Barnard, P., Tom, T., & Yajaman, S. (2024, September). LOOM: a Privacy-Preserving Linguistic Observatory of Online Misinformation. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), Austin, Texas, USA

Online misinformation is an ever-growing challenge that can have a negative impact on individuals, societies, and democracies. We report on LOOM, a project that aims to build and validate a browser-based tool to detect and respond to misinformation i... Read More about LOOM: a Privacy-Preserving Linguistic Observatory of Online Misinformation.

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

The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Parnell, T., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Clos, J., & Schiazza, G. (2023). The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), Article 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100037

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health threats. Established public health communications strategies including self-... Read More about The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online
Report
McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Knight, D., McAuley, D., Aydt, M., Tom, T., & Lang, A. (2022). Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online. University of Nottingham: AHRC/UKRI

The Coronavirus Discourses project supports public health partners Public Health Wales, Public Health England, and NHS Education for Scotland in addressing key challenges that the coronavirus pandemic presents in terms of understanding the flow and i... Read More about Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online.