Tag: Digital Life and Wellbeing

16 April 2020

Authors: 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

12 July 2019

Authors: Sarah Griffin

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first crewed mission to land on the Moon (20 July 1969). In celebration, the Proscholium of the Old Bodleian Library is hosting ...
Read More New Public Cabinet Paper: ‘We Look to the Moon’

7 May 2019

Authors: Sarah Griffin

Cabinet is well known across Oxford for the three-dimensional models of museum objects that we create to promote teaching with material culture. While these models are an effective way ...
Read More Medieval Manuscripts, IIIF and the History of Medicine on Cabinet

25 June 2018

Authors: Rebecca Eynon

In this post, we describe the tools and techniques we’re using throughout the project and why. We also show how you can get started using the same. Beginning with ...
Read More Notes on Analytical Engineering: Software and method for researching AI and Lifelong Learning

13 June 2018

Authors: Rebecca Eynon

The so-called “eternal spring” of AI has given new life to an old dream about supercharging human learning. From personalised teaching assistants to systems that “train” the brain directly, ...
Read More Understanding the potential of AI for lifelong learning: The need for a critical perspective

10 October 2017

Authors: Andrew Przybylski

There are active debates surrounding Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), however, a new study suggests that it may not, in itself, be robustly associated with important clinical outcomes. Internet-based video ...
Read More Why we shouldn’t be pathologizing online gaming before the evidence is in

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

25 July 2017

Authors: Ben Zevenbergen

Digital technologies are increasingly proposed as innovative solution to the problems and threats faced by vulnerable groups such as children, women, and LGBTQ people. However, there exists a structural ...
Read More Design ethics for gender-based violence and safety technologies

12 July 2017

Authors: Andrew Przybylski

Schools and parents play an important role in educating children about cyberbullying. Credit: Pasco County Schools (Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0). Bullying is a major public health problem, with systematic ...
Read More Cyberbullying is far less prevalent than offline bullying, but still needs addressing

20 June 2017

Authors: Kathryn Eccles

Last week, the Oxford University Museums Partnership in collaboration with the Digital Learning Network put on a fantastic event on Digital Learning in Museums.  The event was focused on ...
Read More Everything you need to know about Cabinet in under six minutes…

19 June 2017

Authors: Andrew Przybylski

Letting your child use social media is like giving them cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes – all at once, or so we’re told. If you have been following recent press ...
Read More Social media is nothing like drugs, despite all the horror stories

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?

20 April 2017

Authors: Matt Willis

Image by TheeErin (Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), who writes: “Working on a national cancer research project. This is the usual volume of mail that comes in two-days time.” In ...
Read More We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare

15 March 2017

Authors: David Sutcliffe

Outcomes of the many schemes financed by the government to address digital inequalities are rarely uniformly positive or transformative for the people involved. Image: iPad by Sean MacEntee (Flickr). ...
Read More Tackling Digital Inequality: Why We Have to Think Bigger

3 March 2017

Authors: Andrew Przybylski

Few activities stir the imagination or popular concern more than video gaming. Nearly all young people in the UK now regularly play games – four in five of those ...
Read More Gaming addiction: it may not be as much of a crisis as some expect

29 July 2014

Authors: Victoria Nash

Child Internet safety is a topic that continues to gain a great deal of media coverage and policy attention: but online risk and harm are not equivalent and should ...
Read More Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research

22 December 2012

Authors: Rebecca Eynon

This is a repost of a University of Oxford press release reporting on work by Rebecca Eynon (OII) and Chris Davies (Dept of Education, Univ. Oxford) on how teenagers ...
Read More UK teenagers without the Internet are ‘educationally disadvantaged’

8 October 2012

Authors: Rebecca Eynon

OII Research Fellow Dr Rebecca Eynon discusses how the rhetoric around young people’s uses of technology is leading to assumptions and practices that are likely to make some individuals ...
Read More Understanding low and discontinued Internet use amongst young people in Britain