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Oxford Internet Institute’s Chrissy Bunyan wins VC Award

23 March 2023

Graduate Studies Manager, Chrissy Bunyan, has been named winner of the Role Model Award at the University of Oxford Vice Chancellor’s Professional Services Awards 2023.

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Associate Professor of AI and Work appointed

20 March 2023

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII), has appointed Carl-Benedikt Frey as Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI and Work.

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Behind AI, a massive infrastructure is changing geopolitics

17 March 2023

The computing power needed to research and develop large AI models can be out of reach even for medium-sized states. Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute, explores the impact this has.

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Next Events

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29 Mar

OII/TUM Heilbronn series on AI Government & Policy: “Social media: from liberative force to (existential) danger for democracy?”

12:00 -13:00, Zoom

With Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Mahsa Alimardani, Dr Jens Foerderer, and Dr Michaela Lindenmayr

A joint webinar from the OII and TUM about governments using technology to control citizens and Firms’ fake follower use. This event is supported by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation

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

Gemma Newlands

Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work

Gemma Newlands is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work. As an organisational sociologist, her research explores the impact of artificial intelligence on work and organisations.

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Dr Kavita Dattani

Postdoctoral Researcher

Kavita is a feminist researcher of digital technologies. Broadly, Kavita's work seeks to uncover the ways in which new digital technologies are enabling particular forms of urban marginality, and the potentials for overcoming these.

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Dr Laura Hakimi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Laura is a postdoctoral researcher on the ESRC-funded project “Towards equity focused approaches to EdTEch: a socio-technical perspective.” Her research interests lie at the intersection of learning, technology, ethics and inequality.

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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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Top down view of shareholders around a table

Shareholder AI Activism

This project examines the role of shareholder activism as an approach to understanding the development of AI governance.

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The Radicalisation of Sweden’s Image: A study of how radical right groups in other countries depict Sweden online

This project analyses Sweden's depiction online and in news media by foreign radical groups and how these depictions, in turn gains visibility in Swedish media

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Defocused Picture of India Road Street with Cars, Mopeds and Rickshaws

Policy Review of AI and Informal Work in India

This project seeks to review the Indian government’s policies relating to AI and Work, to improve understanding of how they are/can be (re)configured to account for and address the informality that characterises Indian urban labour markets.

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Latest report

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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?

Press Coverage

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Iranian Activists Want Tech Companies to Ban the Ayatollah

Bloomberg, 22 March 2023

Opposition figures and hate speech researchers say Iran’s regime shouldn’t get to shut down social media at home and use it to spread alleged misinformation abroad.

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Google Bard: AI chatbot to be released for public testing

The Times, 21 March 2023

Google is releasing Bard, its artificial intelligence chatbot, to the public as it faces up to the challenge presented by ChatGPT to its dominance in web searches.

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Big Pharma lobbies for slice of US chip industry tax breaks

The Financial Times, 20 March 2023

Companies want incentives from $280bn support package to create jobs and stave off competition from China.

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