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New Oxford report shows freelance and microwork platforms fail to provide minimum fairness standards for their global workforce 
Oxford study calls for greater government support for public libraries to help bridge digital divide
Tackling misinformation one algorithm at a time
Can online labour platforms bring jobs to the countryside?
Oxford report reveals best and worst practices in gig economy
Lifting the lid on misinformation in the media, join us at MISDOOM 2021
Introducing the Online Labour Observatory: Data on female participation in the remote gig economy and more
COVID-19 has reinforced China’s role as the global leader in edtech
New study finds coordinated amplification network promoting tweets by China’s diplomats in the UK
New study finds Chinese actors using social media networks to influence foreign public opinion
Study suggests little to no increase over time in association between adolescents’ technology engagement and mental health problems, urges more transparent collaborations between academia and industry
The good, the bad and the scapegoat
What skills do we need in the workplace of the future?
Consumers missing out on products and offers through tech giants unfair profiling in online advertising, say Oxford legal and AI ethics experts
Victoria Nash
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Apply now for new Associate Professor role in AI and Society
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AI modelling tool developed by Oxford academics incorporated into Amazon anti-bias software
Oxford researchers propose new framework for AI governance
Fairwork Ecuador Scores 2021: Rating fairness in the Latin American gig economy
Uber forced to recognise its drivers as workers, but falls short of offering Fair Pay and Representation
New approach needed to address bias in machine learning and AI systems, say Oxford legal and AI ethics experts
ILO report: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work
Lifting the lid on the gig economy
Uber’s Call for Change in Europe Shirks Responsibility while Highlighting Real Challenges say Fairwork researchers
National Apprenticeship Week 2021: In conversation with Maisy Gills, OII Apprentice Administrative Assistant
BBC Sounds
Afternoons on BBC Oxford interview with Professor Victoria Nash
Digital detoxing doesn’t necessarily improve personal well-being, new study finds
Reconfigure: Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity
Victoria Nash
Announcing the OII’s next Director
Good governance for trustworthy AI in the European Union
New Landmark Study on Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation
Generous donors take Shirley Scholars Fund past milestone figure
Social media manipulation by political actors now an industrial scale problem prevalent in over 80 countries – annual Oxford report
Clear link between climate scepticism and support for right-wing populists, study finds
Intercultural Digital Ethics at the OII
New software tool to help researchers with complex social network data collection projects could be used to fight Covid-19
Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores
Spread of disinformation the biggest concern for internet and social media users globally finds new Oxford study
Oxford academics achieve Associate Professor status
Professor Helen Margetts OBE awarded prestigious prize by University of Dusseldorf
Tech companies continue to provide online infrastructure for contentious Covid-19 websites even after flagging them as fake news, finds new Oxford study
Groundbreaking new study says time spent playing video games can be good for your wellbeing
California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide
Fairwork Foundation announces Code of Good Practice to protect gig workers in South Africa
How workers learn skills in the online platform economy, and how platforms, policies, and learning providers can support them
Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?
California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law
Black Heroes of the Internet – Marcus Rashford MBE
How social media echo chambers emerge (and why all your friends think Trump will lose)
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Black Heroes of the Internet – adrienne maree brown

Academic Spotlight

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Balasz Vedres
Dr Balazs Vedres

A renowned sociologist and network scientist working to understand how teams and organizations rely on open networks and diversity in innovation.
Mariarosaria Taddeo
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo

A widely respected philosopher working on the ethics of digital technologies in areas such as the ethics of AI and ethical analysis of cybersecurity.
Dr Brent Mittelstadt
Dr Brent Mittelstadt

A philosopher specialising in data ethics in relation to algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, Big Data, and medical expert systems.
Scott Hale
Dr Scott A. Hale

A much cited data scientist whose work investigates the spread of information between the speakers of different languages online.
Jonathan Bright
Dr Jonathan Bright

A highly regarded political scientist who specialised in computational approaches to the social sciences and political participation.

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DPHIL IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE

Explore research questions at the intersection of the computational and social sciences, supported by a multidisciplinary faculty.

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Our Research

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AI in the News: Reshaping our Information Ecosystem
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Resistance to Resiliance: Oxford Martin Initiative on Vaccine Misinformation
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The Association between Video Game Play and Cognition
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Connected Fitness: Can Online Fitness Communities Facilitate Social Connectedness?
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A Global Study of Holocaust mis- and disinformation online
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Alternative News Networks – Understanding the spread and influence of disinformation, propaganda, and divisive political news content in the UK online information ecosystem
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How Much is Too Much? Leveraging Existing and Emerging Large-Scale Social Data to Build Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
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The A-Z of AI
Black and white image of two women using an historic computer with text superimposed: re:Configure Digital Privacy Workshops
Reconfiguring Citizen Participation in Cybersecurity
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The Futures for Online Consumption
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Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages
Discriminatory Effects of Automated Decision Making in Information Controls
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Platform Alternatives: Strategies and Corporate Governance for Europe’s Platform Economy
DomesticAI: AI’s Potential to transform unpaid domestic work in the UK and Japan
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Explaining black-box decisions
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A Right to Reasonable Inferences in Advertising and Financial Services
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Understanding the Psychological Well Being of Disadvantaged Children across the UK in the Digital Age
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Building Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
Internet Filtering and Children’s Exposure to Harmful Content
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Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age
A Digital Single Window for income data from platform work
Data Work: Collaboration, Sense Making and the Possible Futures for Work
The Cultural Origins of Village Social Structure
A European Ethical Code for Posthumous Medical Data Donation
AI & Data Diversity
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Social media narratives of sustainable food consumption
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Explainable and accountable algorithms and automated decision-making in Europe
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AI and the Right to Reasonable Algorithmic Inferences
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Hashtag Heritage: understanding visitor engagement with free sites using social media
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Mapping Playful Spaces in the Museum
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Political Volatility
Creative Algorithmic Intelligence: Capabilities and Complementarity
What Do ‘the People’ Want? Analysing Online Populist Challenges to Europe
Internet Geographies Leverhulme Prize
GCRF Decent Work: FAIRWORK in the Platform Economy in the Global South
Cyber Security Behaviours (CYBERSECURITY)
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Strengthening Digital Democracy
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Political Communication, AI and Data Diversity in the US
Open Cabinet: AR access to Oxford’s collections
Computational Romance: Understanding How Online Dating Has Evolved Over the Past Ten Years Through Large Scale Data Analysis
Listening to the crowd: Data science to understand the British Museum
Restoring Trust in Social Media Civic Engagement
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TRANSNET: Forecasting and understanding transport network resilience and anomalies
Skills formation and skills matching in online platform work: Practices and policies for promoting crowdworkers’ continuous learning (CrowdLearn)
Measuring What Matters
A Fairwork Foundation: Towards fair work in the platform economy
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Ethical auditing for automated decision-making
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Current Affairs 2.0: Agenda setting in the European Union
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Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media
The “Offensive Internet”? Examining Cultures of Hate and Prejudice Online

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