Tag: data
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AI’s coming home: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Tackle Racist Emoji in Football
16 July 2021
Author:Hannah Kirk
AI’s coming home: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Tackle Racist Emoji in Football writes MSc and DPhil student Hannah Kirk. Content Warning: This article contains some examples of emoji-based ...
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Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they’re not political
14 July 2021
Authors:Silvia Milano
Brent Mittelstadt
Sandra Wachter
Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they’re not political Leading experts in ethics and law Dr Silvia Milano, Dr Brent Mittelstadt and Professor Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet ...
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Privacy matters – but there’s more to WhatsApp’s story
12 July 2021
Author:Nayana Prakash
Privacy matters – but there’s more to WhatsApp’s story explains doctoral researcher Nayana Prakash If you’re one of WhatsApp’s two billion users, chances are you may have had a ...
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Decentralised digital identity: what is it, and what does it mean for marginalised populations?
1 July 2021
Author:Margie Cheesman, digital anthropologist, and doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, explores the subject of decentralised digital identity, what it is and what it means for marginalised populations. ...
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Tackling misinformation one algorithm at a time
9 June 2021
Author:Computer scientists from Oxford University, MIT, the University of Michigan, and Meedan have joined forces to develop an algorithm to help fight misinformation being shared through private messaging apps ...
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The good, the bad and the scapegoat
30 April 2021
Author:What the Post Office scandal tells us about the mystery world of government’s digital estate. Are the computers really to blame when things go wrong asks Professor Helen Margetts ...
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Reconfigure: Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity
4 February 2021
Authors:julia slupska
scarlet dawson duckworth
Julia Slupska, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Cyber Technology Specialist at Darktrace and OII alumna, share their perspectives on the limitations of mainstream approaches ...
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Uphold Digital Sovereignty, Avert Digital Autarky
30 September 2020
Authors:Nikita Aggarwal
Luciano Floridi
Matthias Qian
By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Matthias Qian, Departmental Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of ...
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How the Covid-19 crisis facilitates innovation – and how to measure it with online data
19 August 2020
Authors:Fabian Braesemann
Niklas Stoehr
In their new blog, Niklas Stoehr, IBM, AI Core, GER; Fabian Braesemann, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; Michael Frommelt, IBM, AI Core, GER; and Shi Zhou, University College, ...
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Challenging gender stereotypes in cybersecurity: a feminist perspective
8 March 2020
Author:Julia Slupska
The technology industry has been the subject of one of the most extreme gender flips in history. How would the tech sector look differently if women felt like they ...
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Cutting congestion and minimising traffic disruption using online mapping data
6 March 2020
Author:In his latest blog, OII postdoctoral researcher Dr Chico Q. Camargo explains why using data from online mapping tools can help policymakers and planners better predict traffic flow and ...
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Doctoral research opportunity in Gender and AI Applications Open!
5 February 2020
Author:Sara Spinks
ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) collaborative doctoral studentship with the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. The Oxford Internet Institute is awarding a collaborative doctoral studentship ...
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An ethically-minded approach to AI for healthcare by Morley and Floridi
24 January 2020
Authors:Luciano Floridi
Jessica Morley
MSc student Jessica Morley and Pofessor Luciano Floridi answers questions about their call for a new approach to ethical standards in Artificial Intelligence (AI), published in leading medical journal, The ...
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Algorithmic bias within online behavioural advertising means public could be missing out, says Associate Professor Sandra Wachter
26 November 2019
Author:Sara Spinks
Behavioural advertising describes the placement of particular adverts in the places we visit online, based on assumptions of what we want to see. In her article, “Affinity Profiling and ...
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Better and locally sensitive use of data could cut traffic jams
6 November 2019
Author:Ever been stuck in queuing traffic which seems to have no explanation? Have you ever encountered a roundabout which creates more congestion than can be relieved? No surprise there: ...
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Digital technology has the power to transform health care, but is only part of the solution
11 July 2019
Authors:Jessica Morley
Luciano Floridi
As the NHS embraces the use of digital technology, AI expert Professor Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, warns of the inherent risks in relying solely on ...
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Connected Life 2019: Data and Disorder
20 June 2019
Author:Sara Spinks
The Oxford Internet Institute is delighted to be supporting Connected Life 2019 in conjunction with the London School of Economics (LSE), and the Alan Turing Institute (The Turing). This ...
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Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future
20 November 2017
Author: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 ...
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From private profit to public liabilities: how platform capitalism’s business model works for children
14 September 2017
Author: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 ...
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How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?
10 May 2017
Author:“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 ...
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