Tag: Digital Politics and Government
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Lifting the lid on misinformation in the media, join us at MISDOOM 2021
21 May 2021
Author:Sara Spinks
After two successful editions, the international MISDOOM symposium on misinformation in online media returns for a 3rd edition, this time co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Universiteit ...
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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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Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?
3 November 2020
Authors:Hamza Salem
Fabian Stephany
Predicting the outcome of the 2020 US Senate election using Wikipedia pageview data by Hamza Salem, Oxford Internet Institute MSc Alumnus and Dr Fabian Stephany, Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute. In ...
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Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter
21 October 2020
Authors:Fabian Stephany
Philipp Darius
Philipp Darius, doctoral candidate, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin and Dr Fabian Stephany, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, explain how political actors are highjacking hashtags to polarise ...
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How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
5 August 2020
Authors:Oxford doctoral candidates Mahsa Alimardani and Mona Elswah present the case for how the new phenomenon of ‘religious misinformation’ is adding to the Covid-19 infodemic in many countries across ...
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Online politics needs to be cleaned up – but not just by Facebook and Twitter say Oxford academics
18 November 2019
Author:Sara Spinks
This article was previously published by the Guardian 11 November 2019 Social media platforms do have a role to play, but real change requires political parties to take responsibility. ...
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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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How can distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain, help in the fight against government corruption?
25 June 2019
Author:Nikita Aggarwal
Given that government corruption is rooted in an abuse of trust by elected representatives, it is tempting to think that corruption would be eradicated or at least significantly reduced ...
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Five reasons ‘technological solutions’ are a distraction from the Irish border problem
21 February 2019
Authors:Helen Margetts
Dr Cosmina Dorobantu
Dr Florian Ostmann
Christina Hitrova
In this post, Helen Margetts, Cosmina Dorobantu, Florian Ostmann, and Christina Hitrova discuss the focus on ‘technological solutions’ in the context of the Irish border debate — arguing that ...
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Helen Margetts named as one of world’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government
14 August 2018
Author:Genevieve Juillet
Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, has been named by Apolitical as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential ...
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Firefighting AI-powered propaganda
6 April 2018
Authors:Lanisha Butterfield
Vidya Narayanan
Dr Vidya Narayanan, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and post-doctoral researcher on the Computational Propaganda Research Project, discusses her work understanding the effects of technology and social ...
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The myth of the echo chamber
9 March 2018
Authors:Grant Blank
Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa)
There are widespread fears that so-called echo chambers and filter bubbles are leading to political polarization that poses a danger to democracy. But are the fears unfounded? (Melvin Sokolsky/1963 ...
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Awarded Political Studies Association book prize
8 December 2017
Author:Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Peter John, Dr Scott Hale, and Dr Taha Yasseri have won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize at the Political Studies Association (PSA)’s Annual ...
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European Commission Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News
18 November 2017
Author:Lisa-Maria Neudert represented the project on a panel at the European Commission’s recent Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News, part of a large-scale consultation process on fake news currently being organized by ...
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ComProp Awarded 2017 Democracy Award by NDI
5 November 2017
Author:ComProp
We are pleased to announce that our project has been awarded a 2017 Democracy Award by the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Every year the NDI recognizes organizations that have demonstrated ...
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The Election Is Over, But Russian Disinformation Hasn’t Gone Away
5 November 2017
Author:ComProp
Samantha Bradshaw spoke to PBS for a story on Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential election. Since the election, there has been a shift away from completely automated, ...
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Moscow Reacts To US-Russia Probe Arrests
5 November 2017
Author:ComProp
Lisa-Maria Neudert spoke to the BBC for a radio episode discussing Russian involvement in the 2016 US election. The Kremlin says the investigation into last year’s US presidential election ...
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Putin’s Pro-Trump Trolls Just Targeted Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller
5 November 2017
Author:ComProp
Samantha Bradshaw and Lisa-Maria Neudert spoke to a Mother Jones for a story which drew on the project’s work on polarizing information in swing states. “You can launch a ...
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What to watch for when America’s tech giants testify on Russian hacking today
5 November 2017
Author:ComProp
Sam Woolley and Doug Guilbeault wrote an article for Quartz which provides a breakdown of the recent testimony provided to congressional intelligence committees by Facebook, Twitter, and Google to ...
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Twitter has a serious bot problem, and Wikipedia might have the solution
24 October 2017
Author:ComProp
Project researcher Robert Gorwa wrote a new commentary essay for Quartz on Twitter’s bot policy. Several research projects, including the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute (where I am ...
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