A new C3DS project develops AI to examine discourses of delay on climate solutions
C3DS research reveals the social media ‘echo’ of strategic communications
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Dr. Cann presenting "An AI view of media coverage of climate"
Created on May 1, 2024
Tristan Cann is presenting an "An AI view of media covering climate change" at Pint of Science in Exeter on 15 May. He will share some of the ways that AI can be used to understand this space and highlight ways we can recognise the effectiveness of these messages. You can sign up to attend Tristan's talk by clicking the "Read More" link below.
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C3DS AI powers new CCDH study on climate misinformation
Created on Jan. 16, 2024
A new report released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) uses an AI model developed by C3DS researchers to study misinformation on social media. The model was originally developed by Travis Coan, Mirjam Nanko (C3DS), Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin), and John Cook (University of Melbourne). The report, entitled "The New Climate Denial", documents a shift in towards undermining climate solutions.
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Dr. Cann presenting "An AI view of media coverage of climate"
Created on May 1, 2024
Tristan Cann is presenting an "An AI view of media covering climate change" at Pint of Science in Exeter on 15 May. He will share some of the ways that AI can be used to understand this space and highlight ways we can recognise the effectiveness of these messages. You can sign up to attend Tristan's talk by clicking the "Read More" link below.
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C3DS AI powers new CCDH study on climate misinformation
Created on Jan. 16, 2024
A new report released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) uses an AI model developed by C3DS researchers to study misinformation on social media. The model was originally developed by Travis Coan, Mirjam Nanko (C3DS), Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin), and John Cook (University of Melbourne). The report, entitled "The New Climate Denial", documents a shift in towards undermining climate solutions.
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C3DS researchers win knowledge exchange award
Created on Oct. 26, 2023
C3DS Deputy Director Chico Camargo and Research Associate Ranadheer Malla won Bright Futures Award for Early Career Research Impact at the University of Exeter Knowledge Exchange Awards for their “YouTube Regrets Project”. Chico and Ranadheer partnered with the Mozilla Foundation to develop a pioneering set of projects designed to scrutinize and gather evidence on the harmful and dangerous nature of YouTube recommendations.
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C3DS researchers introduce "Dynamic Few Shot Learning"
Feb. 6, 2024
This study contrasts the performance of state-of-the-art closed-source Large Language Models (LLMs) with their open-source counterparts across 10 multi-class classification tasks critical to social science research. We introduce dynamic few-shot learning, an enhancement to static few-shot learning, that leverages semantic similarity to dynamically choose contextually relevant examples from a pre-defined corpus for improved prompt engineering.
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New research examines fossil fuel advertising on Facebook
Nov. 29, 2023
C3DS researcher, Ben Dennes, coauthored Section 3 on the "Fossil Fuel Lobby" in Climate Action Against Disinformation's (CAAD) recent COP28 Pre-summit Report. Ben developed software to collect and analyse data on fossil fuel advertising on Facebook. The report identifies 13 entities who posted 2,562 ads in the run up to COP28, with a total associated spend of $4.13 million-$5.21 million.
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C3DS researchers introduce "Dynamic Few Shot Learning"
Feb. 6, 2024
This study contrasts the performance of state-of-the-art closed-source Large Language Models (LLMs) with their open-source counterparts across 10 multi-class classification tasks critical to social science research. We introduce dynamic few-shot learning, an enhancement to static few-shot learning, that leverages semantic similarity to dynamically choose contextually relevant examples from a pre-defined corpus for improved prompt engineering.
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New research examines fossil fuel advertising on Facebook
Nov. 29, 2023
C3DS researcher, Ben Dennes, coauthored Section 3 on the "Fossil Fuel Lobby" in Climate Action Against Disinformation's (CAAD) recent COP28 Pre-summit Report. Ben developed software to collect and analyse data on fossil fuel advertising on Facebook. The report identifies 13 entities who posted 2,562 ads in the run up to COP28, with a total associated spend of $4.13 million-$5.21 million.
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Research reveals the social media "echo" in climate communication
March 29, 2023
Online discourse covers a wide range of topics and many actors tailor their content to impact online discussions through carefully crafted messages and targeted campaigns. Yet the scale and diversity of online media content make it difficult to evaluate the impact of a particular message. In this paper, we present a new technique that leverages semantic similarity to quantify the change in the discussion after a particular message has been published.
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