28 June 2022
The Internet promised to spread economic opportunities to rural areas, but employment trends show the opposite. Prof Vili Lehdonvirta and Dr Fabian Braesemann discuss whether online labour platforms can help counter this trend.
21 June 2022
Congratulations to OII academics named as recipients of divisional teaching awards.
16 June 2022
Expert view: Digital ethics and defence expert Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo explains more.
Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
NBC News, 27 June 2022
Emotion recognition technology typically relies on software to look at any number of qualities to automatically detect emotional state, Prof Sandra Wachter shares her insights on the ethics behind the tech.
rest of world, 28 June 2022
Doctoral Researcher Nayana Prakash shares her insights on using online platforms like Instagram to shape historical memory.
Rwanda Post, 25 June 2022
Countries on the African continent stand to lose out on the growing global internet economy if challenges around data sovereignty are not addressed head on, with latest insights from researcher Dr Fabian Braesemann.
