22 April 2025
In his latest opinion piece, Dr Mohsen Mosleh explores the role of shared ideology and social connection as influencing factors in fact-checking and countering online misinformation.
11 April 2025
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 OII MSc Thesis Prizes. These prizes recognize outstanding work and contributions to the field.
31 March 2025
New research reveals that social connections, more so than political alignment, can promote engagement with user-driven corrections of misinformation on social media platforms like X.
15:30 -16:30, 1 St Giles
With Clara MartinyThis presentation is based on a book set to be published in late 2025 with Cambridge University Press investigating the online "Reopen" protest movement against COVID-19 public health shutdowns in the United States.
Find out more about the research of OII academics
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nick Ballou is a postdoc researching how video games affect mental health both for better and for worse, and how to make psychological research on games more trustworthy.
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sabrina studies the relationship between online environments and well-being. Her research includes creating and testing digital behavioural interventions to enhance user autonomy and digital literacy.
By Mariarosaria Taddeo
The defence sector must address how to use advancing AI safely and effectively. Mariarosaria Taddeo offers a systematic analysis of AI’s challenges in defence, providing recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners.
This project seeks to understand how citizens listen and speak to public institutions, and how alternative AI-based models and framing might encourage democratic communication.
With mobile devices ubiquitous among young people, it is not surprising that parents are increasingly turning to technology for help in childcare. This project examines monitoring technologies and how parents use them as part of child supervision.
The shift to cloud represents a reversal of the 1980s personal computing revolution: computation is moving from personal devices back into large, centralized facilities. This project seeks to understand the economic drivers of this reversal.
By Andres Raieste, Andri Rebane, Madis Tapupere, Keegan McBride
In a world increasingly defined by crises—from pandemics and climate disasters to escalating wars—governments that fail to build digital resilience risk crumbling under pressure.
techpolicy.press, 22 April 2025
The article examines how US states have framed the dangers of synthetic media to elections in the language of recent legislation and summarizes key developments with regard to laws passed in 2024.
FT.com, 20 April 2025
Gulf state expects move will speed up lawmaking by 70% but experts warn of ‘reliability’ issues with the technology with commentary from Dr Keegan McBride.
Time Magazine, 09 April 2025
But rather than enticing companies to create new jobs in the U.S., economists say, the new tariffs—bolstered by recent advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics—could instead increase incentives for companies to automate human labour.
Fabian Braesemann and Paul McCarthy discuss the impact of founder personalities on startup success, how a predictive model outperforms industry standards to predict company success, and what factors can help us predict which startups will succeed.
