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Oxford Internet Institute academics recognised in Social Sciences Divisional awards scheme

21 June 2022

Congratulations to OII academics named as recipients of divisional teaching awards.

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Why we need philosophy and ethics of cyber warfare

16 June 2022

Expert view: Digital ethics and defence expert Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo explains more.

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Most digital labour platforms failing to provide minimum protections for gig workers, finds new Oxford report

8 June 2022

New Oxford report reveals best and worst practices in UK gig economy.

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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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Living with Technology

This project builds on fieldwork at Camp Grounded’s digital detox, where people were fighting a sense of disenchantment in modern life. Focusing on the way devices are interwoven throughout our lives, it rethinks the role of technology in society.

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Building an Internet for the Social Good

This project will examine the role of digital media in improving social understanding, with a particular focus on how trust can develop in the shared understanding of history and climate change.

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Disintegrating sculpture of the thinker wearing VR glasses

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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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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Rising food and fuel costs are making gig work unsustainable

rest of world, 17 June 2022

Dr Matthew Cole talks about the cost of living crisis and its impact on gig workers

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Volle Kanne vom 23. Juni 2022

ZDF, 23 June 2022

Sandra Wachter discusses with Nadine Krüger of Germany's ZDF at .54 minutes, the AI bias tests she's created at Oxford Internet Institute [in German]

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Big Tech Is Hoarding the Data that Humanity Needs to Thrive

Time.com, 13 June 2022

Op-Ed from Professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Thomas Ramge discussing issues around big data and digital platforms.

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