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5 September 2012
New Scientist
Wikipedia busts the language barrier
Mark Graham comments on Omnipedia, a software system which allows users to browse topics from up to 25 Wikipedia language editions at once.
9 May 2012
ZDNet
Tougher interception laws to reach Twitter
Making policy on combined access to Internet interactions based on old communications technology is 'dangerously simplistic' says Joss Wright, quoted in ZDNet's coverage of the draft Communications Data Bill.
8 May 2012
British Politics and Policy at LSE
Joss Wright argues in a blog post that Government proposals to allow law enforcement officials unprecedented access to Internet communications will only be minimally effective and will be both expensive and invasive.
25 April 2012
Wired
Digital Advisory Board to support Government Digital Service
In an article about the newly announced Digital Advisory Board of experts to advise and support the Government Digital Service, Board Member Helen Margetts said "we need to make sure that interacting with the government is easy to do".
25 April 2012
The Guardian
Digital by default bolstered by new advisory board
Helen Margetts is among experts drawn from industry, retail and academia who will advise and support Government on its digital by default delivery of public services as members of the Digital Advisory Board announced by the Cabinet Office.
25 April 2012
Computer Weekly
Government launches Digital Advisory Board
Computer Weekly report on the newly announced Digital Advisory Board, quotes Board member Helen Margetts. She talks of her plan to analyse the usage of gov.uk but says "the key challenge would be getting the rest of government on board."
25 April 2012
UK Cabinet Office
New Digital Advisory Board supports Government to deliver online services revolution
Helen Margetts, OII Director and leading expert on e-government and digital era governance, is a member of a new group of experts, announced by the Cabinet office, to support the Government in delivering high-quality public service online by default.
25 April 2012
UKauthorITy.com
Private sector focus to digital by default panel
The public sector technology news site notes that the membership of the new Digital Advisory Board includes, among other "well known figures in the e-government community," Professor Helen Margetts.
24 April 2012
Oxford Internet Institute
Three winners have been chosen from over 100 excellent submissions for an online competition we ran to identify the most innovative outreach and public engagement activities carried out by European Universities.
18 April 2012
Slate
Why Homeland Security's Pre-Crime Prevention Technology Is a Terrible Idea
Slate reports on a controversial pre-crime screening programme being developed by the US Department of Homeland Security. It refers to and quotes from an article by OII student Alexander Furnes in The Atlantic arguing that it will never work.
17 April 2012
The Atlantic
Homeland Security's 'Pre-Crime' Screening Will Never Work
OII Masters student, Alex Furnas, explains why the pre-crime prevention programme being researched by the US Department of Homeland Security is not only a terrible idea but one that will never work.
13 April 2012
Oxford Internet Institute
Civic by default - when opting in is not a choice
Rebecca Eynon and Anne Geniets discuss the topical issue of the UK's digital inclusion strategy, discussed at last week's OII workshop on low and discontinued Internet use by young people in Britain.
13 April 2012
Scientific American
Phatic Posts: Even the Small Talk Can Be Big
Dana Radovanovic discusses 'phatic' communications online: brief and apparently trivial or mundane updates posted on social media. Her research used work by Bernie Hogan and led her to conclude that despite content this 'small talk' is meaningful.
6 April 2012
The Atlantic
Mark Graham highlights potential drawbacks to Wikidata, an initiative by Wikipedia which will allow a single change on a central repository to change references across all the language versions. The risk is that cultural context will be lost.
6 April 2012
AlJazeera
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon looks back on the online mediated protests of last year. Online networks reach a large number of people in a short time but what is left after the activity winds down? How much of a difference did the last revolution make?
5 April 2012
New Scientist
Online searches for future linked to economic success
A study of 45 billion Google search enquiries by researchers at UCK reveals that the citizens of wealthy nations are more likely to seek information online about the future than those of poorer states. Greg Taylor comments.
4 April 2012
The Guardian
Wikipedia world: an interactive guide to every language. Infographic map
In 'Show and Tell' on the Guardian Data Store, Simon Rogers, winner of the OII award for best internet journalist in 2011, highlights the Mapping Wikipedia project which shows millions of articles worldwide in a variety of languages.
3 April 2012
University of Oxford
Oxford research into online activism funded by Google
The Oxford Internet Institute has been awarded a grant of more than £40,000 to fund research into online political activism by Google. The year-long project will investigate which factors influence the success or failure online political mobilizations.
30 March 2012
Metro (London)
Net loosens on web security fears as Britons reveal newfound confidence
The London Metro free newspaper quotes Ian Brown in an article on how concerns about the Internet have fallen. 'People's trust in the Internet goes up as they use it more often', he says.
29 March 2012
Metro
The science of falling in love: Finding the perfect partner online
A feature about online dating highlights eHarmony and notes that the system it launched in the UK in 2008 was developed with the help of the Oxford Internet Institute.
28 March 2012
The Register
Oxford Uni chucks big brains at ivy-covered cybersecurity hub
The Register notes that the newly launched Oxford Cyber Security Centre will bring together computer science researchers with academics from other disciplines and work with other Oxford institutions including the Oxford Internet Institute.
27 March 2012
Infosecurity
The new Oxford Cyber Security Centre
Oxford's great strengths in interdisciplinary research is noted by Infosecurity in an article on the new Cyber Security Centre which also mentions that it is home to the Oxford Internet Institute among other contributing departments.
26 March 2012
The Atlantic
Confirmed: The Internet Does Not Solve Global Inequality
The message of the OII's interactive iBook "Geographies of the World's Knowledge" confirms that the Anglophone world dominates academic and user-generating publishing and rich countries dominate the production of user content.
26 March 2012
BBC News Education and Family
Oxford launches free interactive course book
The ability of the OII interactive iBook to reach a global audience challenges how academic knowledge should be shared says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. It could mean universities having a bigger reach with learners outside the university than in it.
22 March 2012
Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford Internet Institute Produces Its First Interactive iBook of Research
Using the most innovative technology, the Oxford Internet Institute has created an interactive iBook of research data allowing users to choose details they want to read using moving graphics and zoom functions. Freely available from Apple’s iBookstore.
Last updated on: 16 May 2012
