Dieter Schwarz Foundation Project Awards announced
29 April 2024
Five faculty members have received Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) funding, enabling them to begin new 12-month research projects at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
29 April 2024
Five faculty members have received Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) funding, enabling them to begin new 12-month research projects at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
24 April 2024
In a new blog, Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and researcher Sara Parker consider the economic implications of a possible “TikTok ban” in the US.
23 April 2024
Personalisation has the potential to democratise who decides how LLMs behave, but comes with risks for individuals and society, say Oxford researchers.
15:30 -17:00, Anthropology Building
With See Pok LoaThis presentation unveils the black box of how ethnographers navigate uncertainties and develop their research in a digital setting.
Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sakshi Ghai is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the research programme on ‘Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age’, where she investigates the effects of digital technologies on adolescent well-being in global young populations.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kai works on AI explainability and fairness at Oxford. He builds upon his work auditing and testing machine learning models in industry and in academia, making AI systems safe and trustworthy.
Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy., Research Associate
Chris Russell is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government and Policy. Dr Russell’s work lies at the intersection of computer vision and responsible AI.
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 emergence of AI image generation tools raises questions about their impact on creative professionals. This project seeks to work with professional photographers to explore the impact of this technology on their occupational legitimacy.
This project aims to reveal the determinants of success in entrepreneurship, startups and innovation ecosystems using data science and qualitative research methods.
This project investigates how human control is currently undermined in human-AI interactions. It presents sociotechnical approaches to examine mechanisms of control, and empower people in their interactions with increasingly advanced AI systems.
By Felix M. Simon and Luisa Fernanda Isaza-Ibarra
How might AI be used and regulated in the news to the benefit of journalists, news organisations, and the public? This report presents findings and recommendations from the Minderoo ‘AI in the News’ project.
The Times, 04 May 2024
Hati, an app built by Zaahirah Adam, aims to change the culture of online dating by shifting the emphasis from matching to meeting.
The Economist, 03 May 2024
Researchers and governments need to co-ordinate; tech companies need to open up.
FDI Intelligence, 01 May 2024
Microsoft, Google and Amazon embed digital dominance with overseas data centre investments.