30 March 2022
Professor Lehdonvirta takes stock of everything that he and his research team have learned through iLabour, a major research project that he launched in 2015 with funding from the European Research Council.
28 March 2022
Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists.
23 March 2022
Experts from the University of Oxford and the University of Bologna launch 'capAI', a new approach to help businesses comply with future AI regulations in Europe.
12:00 -13:00, Online
With Professor Victoria Nash, and Julie Inman GrantThe OII is delighted to welcome Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. This session is hosted by the Director of the OII, Professor Victoria Nash.
Welcome to some of the new academics who have joined the OII
DPhil Programme Director (Social Data Science), Departmental Research Lecturer
Adam Mahdi’s research focuses on digital health and application of machine learning in social sciences. He is the director of the UKRI-funded OxCOVID19 Project and a fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vidya studies machine learning for biodiversity, as part of the "Benchmark for Nature" project for the Oxford Martin School's Programme on Biodiversity and Society.
Departmental Research Lecturer
Luc Rocher is a lecturer in social data science, specialising in large-scale computational modelling approaches to study emerging concerns in algorithmic societies, from the future of privacy to the governance of algorithms in digital platforms.
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.
The Oxford COVID-19 Project aims to increase our understanding of COVID-19 and elaborate possible strategies to reduce the impact on the society through the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques.
The core of this project is the development of a prototype digital platform which would flexibly allow for the measurement of trends in online hate speech in different languages, countries, and contexts.
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of accountability tools addressing explainability, bias, and fairness in AI. A ‘trustworthiness auditing meta-toolkit’ will be developed and validated via case studies in healthcare and open science.
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?
Global Government Forum, 05 April 2022
The UK’s Online Safety Bill aims to introduce law and order to the Digital Wild West and was recently introduced to the House of Commons. Anna George, a PhD student at the University of Oxford, reflects on the impact of the legislation.
The Independent online, 30 March 2022
The link between screen time and mental health is not as clear as we think.
The Atlantic, 28 March 2022
The Russia-funded news network staffed by American journalists shut down this month. What was it even trying to do?
