Oxford Internet Institute

20 November 2017

Authors: Margie Cheesman

In this post, Margie Cheesman, the CII group’s new anthropologist, tells us about her background research and doctoral interests, which are at the intersection of digital infrastructures and international ... Read More Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future

14 September 2017

Authors: Huw Davies

Young people choose to use platforms for play, socialising and expressing their identity. Image by Brad Flickinger (Flickr: CC BY 2.0) Two concepts have recently emerged that invite us to ... Read More From private profit to public liabilities: how platform capitalism’s business model works for children

10 May 2017

Authors: Huw Davies

“Whether your child is an artist, a storyteller, a singer or a scientist, I’m the lovable little friend that will bring that out!” says the FisherPrice Smart Bear. Everyone ... Read More How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?

5 May 2017

Authors: Patrick Allo

A few months ago I was invited to enter in a dialogue with Brussels-based artist Rossella Biscotti for the occasion of the exhibition of her installation “Other” from 2015 ... Read More The meaning of ‘other’ in classifications: Formal methods meet artistic research (II)

5 May 2017

Authors: Patrick Allo

A few months ago I was invited to enter in a dialogue with Brussels-based artist Rossella Biscotti for the occasion of the exhibition of her installation “Other” from 2015 ... Read More The meaning of ‘other’ in classifications: Formal methods meet artistic research

7 April 2017

Authors: Gina Neff

Benjamin Franklin used to keep charts of his time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, we use technology to self-track: our hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications ... Read More Exploring the world of self-tracking: who wants our data and why?

3 January 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

“If data is the new oil, then why aren’t we taxing it like we tax oil?” That was the essence of the provocative brief that set in motion our ... Read More Could data pay for global development? Introducing data financing for global good

8 November 2016

Authors: Karen Mead

Judith Dada was a member of our 2015-16 MSc group. She’s currently working at Facebook as a Client Solutions Manager in the Global Marketing Solutions team, responsible for consulting a range ... Read More Judith on Facebook, working with data, and asking questions that go beyond the bottom line

30 March 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

I was asked by my colleague and friend Oliver Belcher to act as a discussant in a session that he put together at the 2016 meeting of the Association ... Read More Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information

23 March 2016

Authors: Bertram Vidgen

(Part 2 of 2) The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold great value to law enforcement. ... Read More Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism

8 January 2016

Authors: Alison Holt

Many organisations are coming up with their own internal policy and guidelines for data sharing. However, for data sharing between organisations to be straight forward, there needs to a ... Read More New Voluntary Code: Guidance for Sharing Data Between Organisations

30 November 2015

Authors: Brent Mittelstadt

Issues around data capture, retention and control are gaining significant attention in many Western countries — including in the UK. In this piece originally posted on the Ethics Centre Blog, the OII’s ... Read More Government “only” retaining online metadata still presents a privacy risk

12 May 2015

Authors: Eve Ahearn

From Jonathan Bright and Scott Hale’s blog post on Twitter Use. In the run-up to the general election we conducted a number of investigations into relative candidate and party ... Read More Social Media + Elections: A Recap

8 May 2015

Authors: Jonathan Bright

GE2015 turned out to be a bad night for some. Beyond the obvious political parties, the reputation of polling firms took a big hit: while the exit poll got ... Read More Could social media forecast political movements?

8 May 2015

Authors: Jonathan Bright

In previous posts we’ve looked at people mentioning local party candidates on Twitter. In that post we basically assumed that people mentioning local candidates were based in the same ... Read More Where do people mention candidates on Twitter?

8 May 2015

Authors: Jonathan Bright

Taha and Stefano previously looked at the distribution of Wikipedia pages by candidate. These pages are much more patchy than Twitter handles: only in the Conservative and Labour cases ... Read More Which parties were most read on Wikipedia?

7 May 2015

Authors: Jonathan Bright

The last post looked at mention activity for each British constituency. What would happen if we took these mentions to be votes? Does this reaction from social media offer ... Read More What if mentions were votes?