Oxford Internet Institute

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

Nothing like Instagram. cliplab.pro/Shutterstock 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 ... 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

19 September 2016

Authors: Bill Dutton

The Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University had one of its (now) annual retreats on a beautiful Friday in the clubhouse of a local golf course. ... Read More A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others

13 November 2014

Authors: Rebecca Eynon

Despite the speculation about the role massively open online courses (MOOCs) may play in higher education, empirical research that explores the realities of interacting and learning in MOOCs is ... Read More Two years after the NYT’s ‘Year of the MOOC’: how much do we actually know about them?

7 November 2014

Authors: Paige Mustain

In the realm of education and technology, a central question of concern to both researchers and policymakers is why there continues to be such vast amounts of resources invested ... Read More What does the recent LA School District “iPads-for-all” debacle tell us about the structural changes gripping the US K-12 educational system?

21 October 2014

Authors: Rebecca Eynon

Despite the speculation about the role massively open online courses (MOOCs) may play in higher education, empirical research that explores the realities of interacting and learning in MOOCs is ... Read More What are the limitations of learning at scale? Investigating information diffusion and network vulnerability in MOOCs

12 July 2014

Authors: Anne-marie Oostveen

On the 9th and 10th of July we travelled up North to meet the people of B4RN, a community-owned fibre network in Lancashire providing future-proof full fibre connections to rural ... Read More Fieldwork in B4RN land

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