Oxford Internet Institute

16 November 2015

Authors: Taneli Heikka

There is much discussion about a perceived “legitimacy crisis” in democracy. In his article The Rise of the Mediating Citizen: Time, Space, and Citizenship in the Crowdsourcing of Finnish ... Read More Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?

9 November 2015

Authors: Simo Hosio

In spite of all their potential, public displays are all too often used merely to broadcast advertising. They can be used for so much more. Ubinion is a civic ... Read More Assessing crowdsourcing technologies to collect public opinion around an urban renovation project

21 October 2015

Authors: Roxana Radu

Dilma Rouseff during the opening ceremony of the Global Stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance: NETmundial. Image: Blog do Planalto (Flickr). What are the linkages between multistakeholder ... Read More Crowdsourcing ideas as an emerging form of multistakeholder participation in Internet governance

27 July 2015

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

The “Airbnb Law” was signed by Mayor Ed Lee in October 2014 at San Francisco City Hall, legalizing short-term rentals in SF with many conditions. Image of protesters by ... Read More Uber and Airbnb make the rules now — but to whose benefit?

27 July 2015

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Protest for fair taxi laws in Portland; organizers want city leaders to make ride-sharing companies play by the same rules as cabs and Town cars. Image: Aaron Parecki (Flickr). ... Read More Why are citizens migrating to Uber and Airbnb, and what should governments do about it?

23 July 2015

Authors: Jonathan Bright

One day all our trees will be electric. Image from Smart City Exhibition 2014 by Forum PA (Flickr). “Big data” is a growing area of interest for public policy ... Read More How big data is breathing new life into the smart cities concept

19 February 2015

Authors: Peteris Zilgalvis

Many of Europe’s economies are hampered by a waning number of innovations, partially attributable to the European financial system’s aversion to funding innovative enterprises and initiatives. Pēteris Zilgalvis discusses ... Read More Will digital innovation disintermediate banking — and can regulatory frameworks keep up?

28 November 2014

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

In a pivotal vote today, the Finnish parliament has voted in favour of removing references to gender in the country’s marriage law, making it possible for same-sex couples to ... Read More Finnish decision to allow same-sex marriage “shows the power of citizen initiatives”

3 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

What effects will the emergence of new and transformative ‘virtual’ economic activities and work (such as ‘microwork’ and ‘game labour’) have on social and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa ... Read More Investigating virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia

8 September 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

How do we explain the significant inequalities in the geography of user-generated information? Mark Graham, PI of a project Mapping and measuring local knowledge production and representation in the ... Read More What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?

6 August 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are pushed to the periphery. Despite ... Read More What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?

22 July 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are pushed to the periphery. OII ... Read More How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?

14 July 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are pushed to the periphery. There ... Read More The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World

12 May 2014

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

What kind of research does the journal Policy & Internet publish? Editor Vili Lehdonvirta approaches the question from two angles; first, by examining the question empirically, through a brief ... Read More Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies

3 December 2013

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Wikipedia is more than just an encyclopaedia; it is also a window into convergent and divergent social-spatial priorities, interests and preferences: aka Edit Wars. In his chapter (with Anselm ... Read More Edit wars! Measuring and mapping society’s most controversial topics

21 November 2013

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Use of socially generated “big data” on collective states of minds in human societies has become a new paradigm in the emerging field of computational social science, but bridging ... Read More The physics of social science: using big data for real-time predictive modelling

14 October 2013

Authors: Patty Kostkova

With factors such as air travel act as a catalyst in the spread of new and novel viruses, the need to improve global population monitoring and enhance surveillance of ... Read More Can Twitter provide an early warning function for the next pandemic?

7 May 2013

Authors: Gwyneth Sutherlin

International NGOs and government actors have embraced crowdsourcing to manage the flood of information produced during crisis. However, when crowdsourced material crosses the language barrier into English, it often ... Read More Crowdsourcing translation during crisis situations: are ‘real voices’ being excluded from the decisions and policies it supports?

14 March 2013

Authors: Steve Stottlemyre

Policy and Internet author Steve Stottlemyre discusses how users of online social networks took the initiative in collecting and processing data for use in the rebellion against the Qadhafi ... Read More Did Libyan crisis mapping create usable military intelligence?