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ILO report: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work
Lifting the lid on the gig economy
Uber’s Call for Change in Europe Shirks Responsibility while Highlighting Real Challenges say Fairwork researchers
National Apprenticeship Week 2021: In conversation with Maisy Gills, OII Apprentice Administrative Assistant
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Afternoons on BBC Oxford interview with Professor Victoria Nash
Digital detoxing doesn’t necessarily improve personal well-being, new study finds
Reconfigure: Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity
Victoria Nash
Announcing the OII’s next Director
Good governance for trustworthy AI in the European Union
New Landmark Study on Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation
Generous donors take Shirley Scholars Fund past milestone figure
Social media manipulation by political actors now an industrial scale problem prevalent in over 80 countries – annual Oxford report
Clear link between climate scepticism and support for right-wing populists, study finds
Intercultural Digital Ethics at the OII
New software tool to help researchers with complex social network data collection projects could be used to fight Covid-19
Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores
Spread of disinformation the biggest concern for internet and social media users globally finds new Oxford study
AI modelling tool developed by Oxford academics incorporated into Amazon anti-bias software
Oxford academics achieve Associate Professor status
Professor Helen Margetts OBE awarded prestigious prize by University of Dusseldorf
Tech companies continue to provide online infrastructure for contentious Covid-19 websites even after flagging them as fake news, finds new Oxford study
Groundbreaking new study says time spent playing video games can be good for your wellbeing
California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide
Fairwork Foundation announces Code of Good Practice to protect gig workers in South Africa
How workers learn skills in the online platform economy, and how platforms, policies, and learning providers can support them
Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?
California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law
Black Heroes of the Internet – Marcus Rashford MBE
How social media echo chambers emerge (and why all your friends think Trump will lose)
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Black Heroes of the Internet – adrienne maree brown
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Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter
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Black Heroes of the Internet – Joy Buolamwini
Black Heroes of the Internet – Professor Charlton McIlwain
Black Heroes of the Internet – Emna Mizouni
NASA-style caution needed before allowing research to influence policy
Deen Freon
Black Heroes of the Internet – Deen Freelon
OxCAIGG report II
Global public opinion split on benefits of AI, finds new Oxford study
Black Heroes of the Internet – Juliana Rotich
Uphold Digital Sovereignty, Avert Digital Autarky  
“Anything that causes chaos is RT’s line”- new study lifts the lid on RT’s role in wreaking political havoc.
Harnessing online tactics to save a species
New report calls for gig economy platforms to provide Covid-19 testing for workers
Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study
Uneven and contested information geographies: How Wikipedia risks reproducing and reinforcing knowledge inequities through its digital representation of cities
Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy
Automotive blog
How the Covid-19 crisis facilitates innovation – and how to measure it with online data
AI @ Work: overcoming structural challenges to ensure successful implementation of AI in the workplace
Demise of Big Tech platforms like Facebook would pose serious risks to data privacy with damaging social and economic consequences, new study finds
Former digital adviser to David Beckham and senior UN officer join OII
How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic

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Dr Brent Mittelstadt
Dr Brent Mittelstadt

A philosopher specialising in data ethics in relation to algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, Big Data, and medical expert systems.
Mariarosaria Taddeo
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo

A widely respected philosopher working on the ethics of digital technologies in areas such as the ethics of AI and ethical analysis of cybersecurity.
Scott Hale
Dr Scott A. Hale

A much cited data scientist whose work investigates the spread of information between the speakers of different languages online.
Jonathan Bright
Dr Jonathan Bright

A highly regarded political scientist who specialised in computational approaches to the social sciences and political participation.
Balasz Vedres
Dr Balazs Vedres

A renowned sociologist and network scientist working to understand how teams and organizations rely on open networks and diversity in innovation.

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DPHIL IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE

Explore research questions at the intersection of the computational and social sciences, supported by a multidisciplinary faculty.

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Our Research

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Alternative News Networks – Understanding the spread and influence of disinformation, propaganda, and divisive political news content in the UK online information ecosystem
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How Much is Too Much? Leveraging Existing and Emerging Large-Scale Social Data to Build Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
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The A-Z of AI
Black and white image of two women using an historic computer with text superimposed: re:Configure Digital Privacy Workshops
Reconfiguring Citizen Participation in Cybersecurity
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The Futures for Online Consumption
Concept of two heads speaking different languages
Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages
Discriminatory Effects of Automated Decision Making in Information Controls
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Platform Alternatives: Strategies and Corporate Governance for Europe’s Platform Economy
DomesticAI: AI’s Potential to transform unpaid domestic work in the UK and Japan
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Explaining black-box decisions
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A Right to Reasonable Inferences in Advertising and Financial Services
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Understanding the Psychological Well Being of Disadvantaged Children across the UK in the Digital Age
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Building Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
Internet Filtering and Children’s Exposure to Harmful Content
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Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age
A Digital Single Window for income data from platform work
Data Work: Collaboration, Sense Making and the Possible Futures for Work
The Cultural Origins of Village Social Structure
A European Ethical Code for Posthumous Medical Data Donation
AI & Data Diversity
Honeycomb concept
Social media narratives of sustainable food consumption
Transparency concept
Explainable and accountable algorithms and automated decision-making in Europe
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AI and the Right to Reasonable Algorithmic Inferences
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Hashtag Heritage: understanding visitor engagement with free sites using social media
Ashmolean Museum with social media icons
Mapping Playful Spaces in the Museum
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Political Volatility
Creative Algorithmic Intelligence: Capabilities and Complementarity
What Do ‘the People’ Want? Analysing Online Populist Challenges to Europe
Internet Geographies Leverhulme Prize
GCRF Decent Work: FAIRWORK in the Platform Economy in the Global South
Cyber Security Behaviours (CYBERSECURITY)
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Strengthening Digital Democracy
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Political Communication, AI and Data Diversity in the US
Open Cabinet: AR access to Oxford’s collections
Computational Romance: Understanding How Online Dating Has Evolved Over the Past Ten Years Through Large Scale Data Analysis
Listening to the crowd: Data science to understand the British Museum
Restoring Trust in Social Media Civic Engagement
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TRANSNET: Forecasting and understanding transport network resilience and anomalies
Skills formation and skills matching in online platform work: Practices and policies for promoting crowdworkers’ continuous learning (CrowdLearn)
Measuring What Matters
A Fairwork Foundation: Towards fair work in the platform economy
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Ethical auditing for automated decision-making
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Current Affairs 2.0: Agenda setting in the European Union
Collage of news and robots
Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media
The “Offensive Internet”? Examining Cultures of Hate and Prejudice Online
Using graph databases to conceptualise social class: a proof of concept study
The Internet’s Effects on Economic Opportunities in Rural Areas: the Case of Online Labour Markets
The Internet’s Effects on Economic Opportunities in Rural Areas: the Case of Online Labour Markets
A European Ethical Code for Data Donation
A European Ethical Code for Data Donation
Science Shop
SciShops: Enhancing the Responsible and Sustainable Expansion of the Science Shops Ecosystem in Europe
Understanding the potential of AI in lifelong learning: A critical perspective

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