Oxford Internet Institute

Connected Life 2019 Conference: Data & Disorder

Delighted to be supporting the Connected Life 2019 Conference taking place in Oxford, 24th June and London, 25th June.

Oxford Technology & Elections Commission launched

The OII is launching a commission to find ways to safeguard democracy from the potentially disruptive influences of modern technology, such as misinformation and “fake news”.

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A.I. in Society – Opportunities and Risks

This June the Oxford Internet Institute recorded Professor Luciano Floridi's lecture "A.I. in society – opportunities and risks" in London.

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Oxford Internet Institute academics win prestigious award for AI paper

OII academics Dr Sandra Wachter and Dr Brent Mittelstadt have won the University of California, Berkeley Law, Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PSLG) Junior Scholar’s award.
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Fairwork project releases latest digital platform scores

Tens of millions of people across the world now find work through digital platforms. From Brazil and India, to South Africa and the United...
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Junk news ‘not prevalent’ on Twitter, but more likely to be shared and liked on Facebook, finds unique multilingual study

Fewer than 4% of news sources shared on Twitter ahead of the 2019 European Parliamentary elections were ‘junk news’
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New machine learning algorithm can predict age and gender from just your Twitter profile

A new “demographic inference” tool developed by academics can make predictions based solely on the information in a person’s social media profile (i.e. screen name, biography, profile photo, and name)

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For the good of humanity, AI needs to know when it’s incompetent

15 June 2019
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Homegrown ‘junk news’ on migrants and Islam surges, studies find

22 May 2019
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European elections 2019: Facebook and Twitter under the spotlight

21 May 2019
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Strengthen digital election rules before the next vote

12 May 2019

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Hashtag Heritage: understanding visitor engagement with free sites using social media

This project is a knowledge exchange project between Dr Kathryn Eccles and English Heritage, piloting the analysis of social media data to understand how visitors engage with free-to-access heritage sites.
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TRANSNET: Forecasting and understanding transport network resilience and anomalies

This project seeks to utilise newly available data to help urban policy makers improve transport infrastructure to cope with growing and increasingly mobile populations.
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Cabinet: Digital Transformation of Teaching through Objects

Cabinet is an award-winning online platform designed to encourage the use of museum collections in education.
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GeoNet: Changing Connectivities and the Potentials of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Knowledge Economy

This research project is examining the geographies, drivers, and effects of Sub-Saharan Africa's emerging information economies at a time of changing connectivity and Internet access across the region.

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We offer both full-time and part-time courses including an MSc in Social Science of the Internet, MSc in Social Data Science and a DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences.