Tag: covid19
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Are We Really Living in an ‘Infodemic’? Science Suggests a Different Story
2 August 2021
Authors:Are We Really Living in an ‘Infodemic’? Science Suggests a Different Story Dr Chico Q. Camargo, Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Departmental Lecturer at the ...
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Can online labour platforms bring jobs to the countryside?
28 May 2021
Author:Digital technologies have created new online marketplaces and industries, and they fundamentally changed how we live and work. But until recently, they have not changed where we work. The ...
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National Apprenticeship Week 2021: In conversation with Maisy Gills, OII Apprentice Administrative Assistant
11 February 2021
Author:Sara Spinks
As we celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2021, we caught up with Oxford Internet Institute apprentice Maisy Gills about her experience as an OII Apprentice and the additional challenges of ...
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How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
5 August 2020
Authors:Oxford doctoral candidates Mahsa Alimardani and Mona Elswah present the case for how the new phenomenon of ‘religious misinformation’ is adding to the Covid-19 infodemic in many countries across ...
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Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed
7 July 2020
Authors:David Sutcliffe
Peaks Krafft
Joan Donovan
Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. While many studies have emphasized the importance of identity confirmation ...
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COVID-19 and the Digital Divides
7 July 2020
Authors:Nikita Aggarwal
Josh Cowls
Luciano Floridi
Jakob Mokander
Jessica Morley
Mariarosaria Taddeo
Andreas Tsamados
Vincent Wang
David Watson
The expression “digital divide” refers to the uneven availability, accessibility, use and possession of digital technologies, services, products, or skills within a population. It is a form of socio-technological ...
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Understanding Online Misinformation in Iran, the Epicentre of Coronavirus in the Middle East
24 June 2020
Authors:We are delighted to have contributed with a new chapter to Meedan’s 2020 Misinfodemic Report: COVID-19 in Emerging Economies. The chapter focuses on misinformation around coronavirus in Iran, focusing ...
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Beyond Contact-Tracing Apps – How Trust Shapes E-Governance
18 June 2020
Author:In fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, South Korea emerged as a role model. The country managed to greatly slow down the epidemic at an early stage without taking authoritarian countermeasures ...
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Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media
28 May 2020
Author:Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute have contributed to research led by The Alan Turing Institute’s Hate Speech: Measures & Counter-measures project to create a tool that uses deep ...
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The Digital Workforce ‘Inside Scoop’ podcast
28 May 2020
Author:The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. Avory has calculated that roughly $700B in paid workers could move some or all of their work ...
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Pandemic-proof jobs? IT freelancers in high demand, other online workers facing cuts
19 May 2020
Authors:Fabian Stephany
Vili Lehdonvirta
Michael Dunn
Steven Sawyer
How are online labour markets reacting to the COVID-19 crisis? Does demand for online work diminish, as companies are facing declining revenues and reduce non-essential spending, or could the ...
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How worried are businesses about COVID-19? A novel indicator measures industry-specific risk assessments in times of the pandemic
24 April 2020
Authors:Fabian Stephany
Fabian Braesemann
Niklas Stoehr
Philipp Darius
Ole Teutloff
Leonie Neuhäuser
A summary of The CoRisk-Index: A data-mining approach to identify industry-specific risk assessments related to COVID-19 in real-time In short The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments around the world ...
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The pandemic depresses online labour markets, but some countries are bouncing back – Insights from South Korea, Germany, and the United States
24 April 2020
Author:In our last iLabour blog post we looked at the response of online labour markets to the COVID-19 pandemic and realised that the downscaling effect might be dominating over the distancing effect: Demand for ...
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Setting Mental Health Science Priorities for the COVID-19 Pandemic
16 April 2020
Authors:Andrew Przybylski
David Sutcliffe
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound effect on all aspects of society, including on mental health—it’s already evident that the direct and indirect psychological and social impacts of ...
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The COVID-19 ‘infodemic’: what does the misinformation landscape look like and how can we respond?
15 April 2020
Authors:Philip Howard
Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielson
Nic Newman
Dr. J. Scott Brennan
In mid-February, the World Health Organization announced that the new coronavirus pandemic was accompanied by an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation. Cristina Tardáguila, Associate Director of the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN), has called COVID–19 ...
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Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work
2 April 2020
Author:Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work: distancing dividend or downscaling loss? The pandemic is causing economic upheaval around the world, as shops and offices close and those able to ...
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