Oxford Internet Institute

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: Oxford Internet Institute

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 Oliver Belcher to act as a discussant in a session that he put together at the 2016 meeting of the Association of American Geographers: ... Read More Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information

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

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: Jonathan Bright

The UK’s national election is decided on a constituency basis: 650 odd separate small elections, each returning one MP. Despite the obvious importance of national parties and their leaders ... Read More The (Local) General Election on Twitter

12 May 2015

Authors: Jonathan Bright

The previous two posts have shown that the amount of effort parties are putting in on Twitter at the local level is pretty variable. But what about the response ... Read More Which parties are having the most impact on Twitter?

12 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?

12 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?

12 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?