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Social media manipulation by political actors now an industrial scale problem prevalent in over 80 countries – annual Oxford report
Clear link between climate scepticism and support for right-wing populists, study finds
Intercultural Digital Ethics at the OII
New software tool to help researchers with complex social network data collection projects could be used to fight Covid-19
Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores
Spread of disinformation the biggest concern for internet and social media users globally finds new Oxford study
AI modelling tool developed by Oxford academics incorporated into Amazon anti-bias software
Oxford academics achieve Associate Professor status
Professor Helen Margetts OBE awarded prestigious prize by University of Dusseldorf
Tech companies continue to provide online infrastructure for contentious Covid-19 websites even after flagging them as fake news, finds new Oxford study
Groundbreaking new study says time spent playing video games can be good for your wellbeing
California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide
Fairwork Foundation announces Code of Good Practice to protect gig workers in South Africa
How workers learn skills in the online platform economy, and how platforms, policies, and learning providers can support them
Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?
California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law
Black Heroes of the Internet – Marcus Rashford MBE
How social media echo chambers emerge (and why all your friends think Trump will lose)
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Black Heroes of the Internet – adrienne maree brown
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Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter

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Scott Hale
Dr Scott A. Hale

A much cited data scientist whose work investigates the spread of information between the speakers of different languages online.
Mariarosaria Taddeo
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo

A widely respected philosopher working on the ethics of digital technologies in areas such as the ethics of AI and ethical analysis of cybersecurity.
Jonathan Bright
Dr Jonathan Bright

A highly regarded political scientist who specialised in computational approaches to the social sciences and political participation.
Dr Brent Mittelstadt
Dr Brent Mittelstadt

A philosopher specialising in data ethics in relation to algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, Big Data, and medical expert systems.
Balasz Vedres
Dr Balazs Vedres

A renowned sociologist and network scientist working to understand how teams and organizations rely on open networks and diversity in innovation.

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DPHIL IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE

Explore research questions at the intersection of the computational and social sciences, supported by a multidisciplinary faculty.

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Our Research

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Alternative News Networks – Understanding the spread and influence of disinformation, propaganda, and divisive political news content in the UK online information ecosystem
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How Much is Too Much? Leveraging Existing and Emerging Large-Scale Social Data to Build Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
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The A-Z of AI
Black and white image of two women using an historic computer with text superimposed: re:Configure Digital Privacy Workshops
Reconfiguring Citizen Participation in Cybersecurity
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The Futures for Online Consumption
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Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages
Discriminatory Effects of Automated Decision Making in Information Controls
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Platform Alternatives: Strategies and Corporate Governance for Europe’s Platform Economy
DomesticAI: AI’s Potential to transform unpaid domestic work in the UK and Japan
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Explaining black-box decisions
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A Right to Reasonable Inferences in Advertising and Financial Services
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Understanding the Psychological Well Being of Disadvantaged Children across the UK in the Digital Age
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Building Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
Internet Filtering and Children’s Exposure to Harmful Content
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Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age
A Digital Single Window for income data from platform work
Data Work: Collaboration, Sense Making and the Possible Futures for Work
The Cultural Origins of Village Social Structure
A European Ethical Code for Posthumous Medical Data Donation
AI & Data Diversity

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