2 October 2024
New research from a team of US and UK researchers has found that politically conservative users tend to share misinformation at a greater volume than politically liberal users.
30 September 2024
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford has appointed Dr Robert Prey to the role of Associate Professor in Digital Culture.
25 September 2024
Playing video games can be good for your mood, according to a new international study from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford.
13:00 -14:00, Seminar room, 1 St Giles
With Dr Mathilda ÅkerlundTrigger warning: this talk covers sensitive topics and includes offensive images. We explore the articulation of sexual violence in one of the largest international incel forums, to gain insight into the creation & spread of gender-based violence
Find out more about the research of academics who have recently joined the OII
Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Amrit Kaur Purba has a diverse background encompassing clinical practice, policy, industry, and academia. Her research interests focus on understanding the potential causal relationship between digital technology usage and health.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kai works on AI explainability and fairness at Oxford. He builds upon his work auditing and testing machine learning models in industry and in academia, making AI systems safe and trustworthy.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Zihao Fu is in the Trustworthiness Auditing for AI project. His research interest include Natural Language Processing, Large Language Model, Machine Learning, Biomedical Applications, Large Language Model safety fairness among other areas.
By James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant.
AI is an extraction machine that feeds off humanity's collective effort and intelligence, churning through ever-larger datasets to power its algorithms. This book details what we need to do to fight for a more just digital future.
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 Felix M. Simon and Luisa Fernanda Isaza-Ibarra
How might AI be used and regulated in the news to the benefit of journalists, news organisations, and the public? This report presents findings and recommendations from the Minderoo ‘AI in the News’ project.
Associated Press, 02 October 2024
The spread of misinformation has become an increasing concern, especially as the 2024 presidential election in the United States approaches.
Freakonomics, 11 September 2024
Young people have been reporting a sharp rise in anxiety and depression. This maps neatly onto the global rise of smartphones. Some researchers are convinced that one causes the other. Hear from Prof Andy Przybylski, OII on what the evidence shows.
The New Yorker, 30 September 2024
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
