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The OII Awards take place on Friday 16 November 2018

The Oxford Internet Institute Awards celebrates individuals and organisations that have made extraordinary contributions to the development, use or study of the Internet for the public good. Join us on Friday 16 November 2018 as we celebrate Internet excellence.

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Junk news dominating coverage of US midterms on social media

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford find that 25% of news shared on social media around the US midterm elections is junk news

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The Global Platform Economy: A New Off-Shoring Institution Enabling Emerging Economy Providers

Video abstract of the paper 'The Global Platform Economy: A New Off-Shoring Institution Enabling Emerging Economy Providers', published in the Journal of Management
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Online labour platforms offer growing alternative to traditional offshoring

Online labour platforms that connect freelance workers and clients around the world are emerging as an alternative to traditional offshoring, according to new Oxford Internet Institute research.
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Screen-time does not significantly disrupt children’s sleep, new study finds

Screen-time has little impact on children’s sleep, according to new Oxford University research.
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OII London Lecture: Show Me Your Data and I’ll Tell You Who You Are

We know that Big Data and algorithms are increasingly used to assess and make decisions about us.

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Tuesday 13 Nov 2018

Surveillance capitalism, governance and social justice: moving beyond data centrism

The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Lina Dencik from Cardiff University for the talk "Surveillance capitalism, governance and social justice: moving beyond data centrism".
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Wednesday 14 Nov 2018

OxDeg: Answering the Call of Duty: Popular Geopolitics and Playing Virtual War

The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Daniel Bos from the University of Oxford for the OxDeg talk "Answering the Call of Duty: Popular Geopolitics and Playing Virtual War".
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Thursday 22 Nov 2018

From identity and inequality to aggregation and transfer: discourses of social differentiation in a smart city

The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Gillian Rose from the University of Oxford for the Colloquia talk "From identity and inequality to aggregation and transfer: discourses of social differentiation in a smart city".
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Wednesday 28 Nov 2018

OxDeg: The Disappearing YouTube Archives of the Syrian War

The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Dima Saber from Birmingham City University for the OxDeg talk "The Disappearing YouTube Archives of the Syrian War".

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Magna Carta for the web: Chips with Everything podcast

9 November 2018
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Facebook Thwarted Chaos on Election Day. It’s Hardly Clear That Will Last.

9 November 2018
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Does staring at screens affect children’s sleep?

9 November 2018
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Children’s sleep barely affected by screen time, new study finds

6 November 2018

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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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Skills formation and skills matching in online platform work: Practices and policies for promoting crowdworkers’ continuous learning (CrowdLearn)

Despite the rapid growth of online platform labour, little is known about how crowdworkers acquire and develop their skills. This project seeks to address this important gap in our knowledge.
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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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The OII Awards take place on Friday 16 November 2018

Junk news dominating coverage of US midterms on social media

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The Global Platform Economy: A New Off-Shoring Institution Enabling Emerging Economy Providers

Online labour platforms offer growing alternative to traditional offshoring

Screen-time does not significantly disrupt children’s sleep, new study finds

OII London Lecture: Show Me Your Data and I’ll Tell You Who You Are

Events

Surveillance capitalism, governance and social justice: moving beyond data centrism

OxDeg: Answering the Call of Duty: Popular Geopolitics and Playing Virtual War

From identity and inequality to aggregation and transfer: discourses of social differentiation in a smart city

OxDeg: The Disappearing YouTube Archives of the Syrian War

Press Coverage

Magna Carta for the web: Chips with Everything podcast

Facebook Thwarted Chaos on Election Day. It’s Hardly Clear That Will Last.

Does staring at screens affect children’s sleep?

Children’s sleep barely affected by screen time, new study finds

Featured Projects

TRANSNET: Forecasting and understanding transport network resilience and anomalies

Skills formation and skills matching in online platform work: Practices and policies for promoting crowdworkers’ continuous learning (CrowdLearn)

Cabinet: Digital Transformation of Teaching through Objects

GeoNet: Changing Connectivities and the Potentials of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Knowledge Economy

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