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Professor Ralph Schroeder wins Teaching Award

9 May 2023

Professor Ralph Schroeder has been named as a winner of the Achievement Award at the University of Oxford 2023 Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards.

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Online consumers at risk from ‘intelligent’ price manipulation: Oxford and Imperial experts

4 May 2023

Sophisticated computer algorithms used to set prices in online marketplaces put consumers at risk of collusion among sellers, according to a study today from computer scientists at the Oxford Internet Institute and Imperial College.

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Platforms still failing to provide minimum protections for UK gig workers, say Oxford researchers, as demand for services falls

28 April 2023

For the third year, researchers based at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, highlight the best and worst companies in the UK platform economy according to how they treat their workers.

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15 May

Oxford Digital Ethnography Group Seminar Series

Performing political neutrality in digital democracy projects online

15:30 -17:00

With Alex Blandford

Exploring ways political data is made, and the anxieties about its use, creation, reuse, and ownership drawing on my research with UK civic technology organisations, government and data organisations.

Four Graduate Degrees

MSc in Social Data Science

A full-time masters programme taught by the OII and partner departments at Oxford. This multidisciplinary degree explores how to create and analyse data sets to understand important issues across the social sciences.

MSc in Social Science of the Internet

A full-time or part-time masters programme that equips students with the tools to conduct Internet research using methodologies and theories from across the social sciences.

DPhil in Social Data Science

This full-time or part-time doctoral programme provides an opportunity for students to investigate novel research questions at the intersection of the computational and social sciences.

DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences

A full-time or part-time doctoral programme, this course provides the opportunity to do cutting-edge research on the societal implications of the Internet, drawing on the wide expertise of our faculty.

Academic Spotlight

Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII

Gemma Newlands

Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work

Gemma Newlands is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work. As an organisational sociologist, her research explores the impact of artificial intelligence on work and organisations.

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Dr Kavita Dattani

Postdoctoral Researcher

Kavita is a feminist researcher of digital technologies. Broadly, Kavita's work seeks to uncover the ways in which new digital technologies are enabling particular forms of urban marginality, and the potentials for overcoming these.

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Dr Laura Hakimi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Laura is a postdoctoral researcher on the ESRC-funded project “Towards equity focused approaches to EdTEch: a socio-technical perspective.” Her research interests lie at the intersection of learning, technology, ethics and inequality.

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Publication Spotlight

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Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

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.

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Latest Projects

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Concept installation for Design exhibit, with workstation in foreground

Who and What is Designing Design?

This project studies the affordances of algorithmic image search for design inspiration in creative work.

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Geographies of Digital Divide

A data-driven approach to understanding structural determinants of digital inequalities

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Top down view of shareholders around a table

Shareholder AI Activism

This project examines the role of shareholder activism as an approach to understanding the development of AI governance.

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Latest report

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AI and the Arts: How Machine Learning is Changing Creative Work

By Anne Ploin, Rebecca Eynon, Isis Hjorth, and Michael A. Osborne

There has been much talk about the potential of AI, but could it really transform the creative arts?

Press Coverage

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The Online Safety Bill

BBC Radio 4, 11 May 2023

How successful will the Online Safety Bill be in protecting children from harmful content?

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How Europe is building artificial intelligence guardrails

The Independent, 11 May 2023

Authorities around the world are racing to draw up rules for artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where draft legislation faces a pivotal moment on Thursday.

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How Europe is building artificial intelligence guardrails

Mail Online, 11 May 2023

LONDON (AP) - Authorities around the world are racing to draw up rules for artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where draft legislation faces a pivotal moment on Thursday.

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