23 January 2026
Dr Victoria Nash, Associate Professor and Senior Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, researches the governance challenges of digital technologies, with a particular focus on online safety, content moderation and platform regulation.
20 January 2026
New analysis from Oxford and Kentucky researchers shows AI systems reproduce long‑standing global biases
16 January 2026
Dr Fabian Braesemann examines how tech giants’ acquisition strategies mirror those of elite football clubs buying up young talent, and why this matters for Europe’s digital sovereignty.
12:00 -13:00, Schwarzman Centre
With Jon PenneyIn this talk, Jon Penney examines the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us.
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Associate Professor Digital South Asian Studies
Janaki's research examines the politics of digital exclusion in India. She uses ethnographic and archival research to examine how gender, caste and class have shaped the use of information and information technologies in varied contexts.
Professor of Data Ethics and Policy
Professor Brent Mittelstadt is a data ethicist and philosopher specializing in AI ethics, professional ethics, and technology law and policy. He is the founder/coordinator of the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) programme.
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.
The Synthetic Society Lab aims to improve how we research, access, and use sensitive human data. The fellowship will advance an evidence-based science of privacy engineering to make research using digital traces safe and reliable.
The Digital Good Network (DGN) delivers an interdisciplinary, social science-led research programme centred on the urgent, neglected question of what the digital good should look like and how it can be achieved.
Media narratives on migration are perceived to have a significant impact on policy decisions and public attitudes toward migration. The project applies tools and methods to enable practitioners to make more effective policy decisions.
By Andres Raieste, Andri Rebane, Madis Tapupere, Keegan McBride
In a world increasingly defined by crises—from pandemics and climate disasters to escalating wars—governments that fail to build digital resilience risk crumbling under pressure.
CNN, 23 January 2026
As AI’s impact on jobs dominates the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dr Carl Frey highlights data showing machine translation has slowed translator job growth, warning that while displacement isn’t yet mass, deeper impacts on livelihoods are likely.
Tech Xplore, 23 January 2026
Dr Victoria Nash, senior policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, notes that Australia’s under-16 social media ban has strong parental and political backing, but its effectiveness remains an open question.
The Times, 23 January 2026
New research co-authored by OII highlights limitations of large language models, showing that one-word prompts to ChatGPT tend to produce binary results.
Researchers Dr Robert Prey (OII) and Dr Seonok Lee (University of Groningen) break down how the ‘pro rata’ model of streaming platforms dilutes payments to musicians, and draw on findings from a survey of 1,200 musicians across five countries to reveal cultural and economic differences in what it means to be a musician today.
