20 January 2022
Professors Mark Graham and Martin Dittus publish their book, Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality, a culmination of 10 years research into data inequalities from around the world.
12 January 2022
Dr Johann Laux, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, explains more in conversation with David Sutcliffe, Senior Science Writer, Oxford Internet Institute.
6 January 2022
Consuming traditional forms of media has little effect on short-term adult well-being, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Oxford, University of Vienna and Nesta.
15:30 -17:00, Online webinar
With Professor Kim Fortun, and Professor Mike FortunIn this presentation Professors Kim and Mike Fortun discuss archive ethnography as an experimental way to produce, curate, communicate and politically activate ethnographic knowledge.
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Professor Sandra Wachter is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow focusing on law and ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Director of Research
Professor Przybylski is an experimental psychologist and Director of Research at the OII. His work is mainly concerned with applying psychological models of motivation and health to study how people interact with virtual environments.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Niklas Johannes is a behavioural scientist. He works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age programme, where he studies effects of technology on well-being and performance.
By Andreas Jungherr and Ralph Schroeder
Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This book rethinks the workings and dysfunctions of the contemporary public arena, and considers ways to improve it.
The core of this project is the development of a prototype digital platform which would flexibly allow for the measurement of trends in online hate speech in different languages, countries, and contexts.
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of accountability tools addressing explainability, bias, and fairness in AI. A ‘trustworthiness auditing meta-toolkit’ will be developed and validated via case studies in healthcare and open science.
Digital technologies are transforming our work environments and demand for skills, with creative work severely affected. This project will use unique secondary data to measure changes in the UK’s creative service sector digital skill composition.
By Mark McFadden, Kate Jones, Emily Taylor and Georgia Osborn, Oxford Information Labs
The draft EU AI Regulation is a far-reaching attempt to provide a regulatory foundation for the safe, fair, and innovative development of Artificial Intelligence in the European Union.
Computer Weekly, 20 January 2022
Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report.
Politico, 20 January 2022
Demonetization, fact-checking labels and regulating recommendation algorithms could help curb misinformation, report says.
BBC News, 20 January 2022
How do you solve a problem like bad information? The Royal Society is the world's oldest continuously operating scientific institution, and it is attempting to grapple with the challenges posed by our newest ways of communicating information.
