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OII welcomes publication of REF 2021 results

12 May 2022

The UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK’s most recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

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Do Microcredentials Help New Workers Enter the Market?

7 April 2022

Dr Otto Kässi and Professor Vili Lehdonvirta’s new study examines how digital skill certificates are affecting the labour market and impacting jobseekers and employers.

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Celebrating success: Key achievements and impacts of the iLabour project

30 March 2022

Professor Lehdonvirta takes stock of everything that he and his research team have learned through iLabour, a major research project that he launched in 2015 with funding from the European Research Council.

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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

Professor Ekaterina Hertog

Associate Professor in AI and Society

Ekaterina Hertog is an Associate Professor of AI and Society at Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI. She studies how the rising digitalisation is reshaping private lives across the world.

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Dr Lulu P. Shi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lulu Shi is a sociologist working on projects investigating the intersection between society and technology. Her research interests include digital sociology, sociology of education, work and employment.

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Dr Theodora Sutton

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Theodora is a digital anthropologist and ESRC DTP Postdoctoral Fellow. For her DPhil she conducted ethnography at a "digital detox" retreat in California. Her research explores technology and mental health as situated in cultural context.

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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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AI Futures and the Curated Visitor Experience

This project interrogates the impact of AI on cultural heritages and the presentation of these futures through public-facing exhibition spaces. It will interrogate the agency of AI within exhibit contexts, exploring its role in creativity.

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Design Interrupted

The aim of this interactive gallery installation and accompanying workshop is to foster a dialogue with creative professionals on the role of algorithms in design. The installation considers how algorithmic bias may influence creativity in ideation.

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A Multimodal COVID-19 Database for Research

The Oxford COVID-19 Project aims to increase our understanding of COVID-19 and elaborate possible strategies to reduce the impact on the society through the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques.

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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?

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‘Bleed Us Dry’: Why Tech Platforms Are Facing Rebellions

International Business Times, 24 April 2022

When Jak found online marketplace Etsy, it seemed like the perfect match: a tech platform for small traders to sell handmade items that promised to be a creative outlet and bring tidy profits.

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For Russian diplomats, disinformation is part of the job

The Washington Post, 19 April 2022

As governments and social media companies have moved to suppress Russia’s state media and the disinformation it spreads about the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s diplomats are stepping up to do the dirty work.

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Global food prices; Cakeage; Social Internet Tarrifs

BBC Radio 4, 01 January 1970

VOICE NOTES Seven billion WhatsApp voice notes are sent every day but are they an effective means of communication? Cristina Criddle, tech reporter for the FT and Bernie Hogan, senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, discuss.

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Latest News

OII welcomes publication of REF 2021 results

Do Microcredentials Help New Workers Enter the Market?

Celebrating success: Key achievements and impacts of the iLabour project

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The future of unpaid work: Home automation and its political economy

Four Graduate Degrees

MSc in Social Data Science

MSc in Social Science of the Internet

DPhil in Social Data Science

DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences

Academic Spotlight

Professor Ekaterina Hertog

Dr Lulu P. Shi

Dr Theodora Sutton

Publication Spotlight

Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

Latest Projects

AI Futures and the Curated Visitor Experience

Design Interrupted

A Multimodal COVID-19 Database for Research

Latest report

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

Press Coverage

‘Bleed Us Dry’: Why Tech Platforms Are Facing Rebellions

For Russian diplomats, disinformation is part of the job

Global food prices; Cakeage; Social Internet Tarrifs