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Online engagement with arts and culture can have a positive impact on mental health in young people, finds new Oxford study

21 September 2022

A new study finds that engaging with arts and culture online can improve mental health in young people.

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The passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

12 September 2022

The Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, is deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and gives thanks for her 70 years of service to the nation.

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“Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum”

8 September 2022

Victimhood, moral panic, and the mainstreaming of racial resentment on YouTube

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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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Concept art of big data control analytics center

The Emerging Laws of Oversight

This project asks how laws and regulations can be improved to promote the effectiveness of human oversight in automated decision-making and better protect people from harm.

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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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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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https://www.jackfm.co.uk/news/oxfordshire-news/oxford-study-finds-arts-and-culture-improve-young-peoples-mental-health/

Jack FM, 22 September 2022

Oxford researchers have examined the impact on depression and anxiety in 16-24 year-olds, in partnership with the Ashmolean Museum.

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Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time

The Guardian, 15 September 2022

Scientists are developing an AI system that aims to recreate the nuances of humour by laughing in the right way at the right time. The team behind the laughing robot, say the system could improve natural conversation.

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The economy, nerve of the war of the video game “EVE Online”

Le Monde, 26 August 2022

The virtual worlds of online video games are subject to very real economic mechanisms. Every week, "Le Monde" looks at these miniature societies, real pixel laboratories for economists. This week: the war economy.

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Latest News

Online engagement with arts and culture can have a positive impact on mental health in young people, finds new Oxford study

The passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

“Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum”

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An introduction to Critical Caste and Technology Studies

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

The Emerging Laws of Oversight

Living with Technology

Building an Internet for the Social Good

Latest report

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

Press Coverage

https://www.jackfm.co.uk/news/oxfordshire-news/oxford-study-finds-arts-and-culture-improve-young-peoples-mental-health/

Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time

The economy, nerve of the war of the video game “EVE Online”