Search results for 'research methods'

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Causal Explanation in Ethnographic Research: Are Digital (and Other) Avatar Identities Sources of Well-Being?

Jeffrey draws from his ongoing mixed methods ethnographic study of avatars in ritual & play contexts to consider more narrowly how identification with digital and tabletop roleplaying game characters might contribute positively to players’ health

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OII researcher Sakshi Ghai wins a SIPS mission award

Sakshi Ghai, postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, together with her collaborators Dr. Lee de-Wit and Maria Mak, both from the University of Cambridge, recently received a SIPS Mission Award.

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OxDEG – Digital Ethnography Methods Workshop

The fifth instalment of our ethnographic methods workshop, students and researchers can bring questions about ongoing projects to receive advice from organisers and attendees.

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Understanding how AI changes creative work through practice-based research

The project studies algorithmic image search, inspiration and creativity in professional creative work. It uses visual art as a facilitation method, using visual language to describe a visual research problem.

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Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

This course teaches the essentials of programming in Python, using the language to access data from a diverse variety of sources on the social web, and transforming this material into datasets which are amenable to traditional social science analysis.

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Platform Alternatives – Meet the research team

The project "Platform Alternatives" studies how Europe’s digital platform economy can be governed to achieve fairer results for all stakeholders. Meet the research team and learn about their methods and goals.

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OxDeG Methods Workshop

We will be running a fourth instalment of our ethnographic methods surgery, where students and researchers can bring questions about their project to receive advice from organisers and attendees.

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How to choose a topic for an OII doctoral research proposal

Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford shares his insights on how to go about picking a research topic.

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OxDEG: How can ethnography inform policy? Insights from digital ethnographic methods and the social semantic network

The OII welcomes Amelia Hassoun, Leonie Schulte and Kate J Sim for this final OxDEG seminar of the term.

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Reconfigure: Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity