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Oxford academics launch project to research the impact of technology in UK schools

7 December 2022

Oxford Internet Institute researchers awarded ESRC funding to research the impact of technology in UK schools.

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Grief, Technology and Revolution: A women, and youth led revolution in Iran

2 December 2022

In her latest blog, Oxford Internet Institute researcher Mahsa Alimardani shares her personal perspective on the power of the internet as an agent for societal change as an Iranian national studying in the UK.

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Misinterpretation, privacy and data protection challenges – putting proxy data under the spotlight

29 November 2022

Having given expert evidence on the risks of using data proxies for bias monitoring at a workshop hosted by the Centre for Data and Ethics Innovation (CDEI) at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. Dr Luc Rocher shares their insights.

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Four Graduate Degrees

MSc in Social Data Science

A full-time masters programme taught by the OII and partner departments at Oxford. This multidisciplinary degree explores how to create and analyse data sets to understand important issues across the social sciences.

MSc in Social Science of the Internet

A full-time or part-time masters programme that equips students with the tools to conduct Internet research using methodologies and theories from across the social sciences.

DPhil in Social Data Science

This full-time or part-time doctoral programme provides an opportunity for students to investigate novel research questions at the intersection of the computational and social sciences.

DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences

A full-time or part-time doctoral programme, this course provides the opportunity to do cutting-edge research on the societal implications of the Internet, drawing on the wide expertise of our faculty.

Academic Spotlight

Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII

Dr Ana Valdivia

Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy

Ana Valdivia is a critical artificial intelligence scholar. Her research explores how datafication and algorithmic governance shape social, economic and political worlds. Her work focuses on the role of technology in the fields of migration & gender.

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Dr Keegan McBride

Departmental Research Lecturer in AI, Government, and Policy

Keegan McBride is a departmental research lecturer in AI, Government, and Policy at the OII. His research creates insight about the state in the digital age by exploring the interactions between the state, society, and technology.

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Dr Fabian Stephany

Departmental Research Lecturer

Fabian is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute.

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Publication Spotlight

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Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

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.

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Latest Projects

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AI, work and mediating the risks of automation: the role of lifelong learning

This project explores how human-AI relations can be conceptualized for lifelong, and the extent to which these relationships impact risks of automation in the workplace.

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Classification Struggles: How Do Workers React to Being Classified in Online Labour Markets?

This project explores how workers experience and respond to being classified by platform firms online.

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Precarity to Power: Work and organising in Hyderabad’s ride-hailing economy

This research project investigates the working lives and aspirations of ride-hail workers in Hyderabad, in order to understand what worker-defined futures of ride-hail work might look like.

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AI and the Arts: How Machine Learning is Changing Creative Work

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?

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Amazon’s Creep Into Health Care Has Some Experts Spooked

Wired, 01 December 2022

Using the tech giant’s new telehealth service will mean trusting it with your private data. Professor Sandra Wachter on the implications for individual data security.

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Taiwan’s front-line battle against mobile phone fraud

BBC News, 04 December 2022

Telecoms security boss Jeff Kuo says that fighting mobile phone fraud is a constant battle, and that Taiwan is on the front line, with insights from Professor Wachter on how AI has the potential to help combat fraud.

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Finding the right training with artificial intelligence

Heilbronner Stimme, 02 December 2022

Uniform training for employees could soon be a thing of the past, but the effort for individual training offers is still great. Representatives of the University of Oxford and TUM see opportunities for an automated process.

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