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  • Tag: covid19

    • How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic

      5 August 2020

      Authors:

      Mona Elswah
      Mahsa Alimardani

      How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic By Masha Alimardani, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford  and Mona Elswah, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford ...
      Read More How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic

    • 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 ...
      Read More Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed

    • 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:

      Mahsa Alimardani
      Mona Elswah

      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 ...
      Read More Understanding Online Misinformation in Iran, the Epicentre of Coronavirus in the Middle East

    • Beyond Contact-Tracing Apps – How Trust Shapes E-Governance

      18 June 2020

      Author:

      Fabian Stephany

      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 ...
      Read More Beyond Contact-Tracing Apps – How Trust Shapes E-Governance

    • Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media

      28 May 2020

      Author:

      Bertram Vidgen

      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 ...
      Read More Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media

    • The Digital Workforce ‘Inside Scoop’ podcast

      28 May 2020

      Author:

      Fabian Stephany

      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 ...
      Read More The Digital Workforce ‘Inside Scoop’ podcast

    • 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 ...
      Read More Pandemic-proof jobs? IT freelancers in high demand, other online workers facing cuts

    • 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 ...
      Read More How worried are businesses about COVID-19? A novel indicator measures industry-specific risk assessments in times of the pandemic

    • 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:

      Fabian Stephany

      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 ...
      Read More The pandemic depresses online labour markets, but some countries are bouncing back – Insights from South Korea, Germany, and the United States

    • 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 ...
      Read More Setting Mental Health Science Priorities for the COVID-19 Pandemic

    • 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 ‘the biggest challenge fact-checkers ...
      Read More The COVID-19 ‘infodemic’: what does the misinformation landscape look like and how can we respond?

    • Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work

      2 April 2020

      Author:

      Fabian Stephany

      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 ...
      Read More Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work

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