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    • Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: Fake News and Filter Bubbles

      27 January 2017

      Author:

      David Sutcliffe

        This is the second post in a series that will uncover great writing by faculty and students at the Oxford Internet Institute, things you should probably know, and ...
      Read More Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: Fake News and Filter Bubbles

    • Should there be a better accounting of the algorithms that choose our news for us?

      7 December 2016

      Author:

      Brent Mittelstadt

      The Facebook Wall, by René C. Nielsen (Flickr). A central ideal of democracy is that political discourse should allow a fair and critical exchange of ideas and values. But ...
      Read More Should there be a better accounting of the algorithms that choose our news for us?

    • Is Social Media Killing Democracy?

      15 November 2016

      Author:

      Philip Howard

      Donald Trump in Reno, Nevada, by Darron Birgenheier (Flickr). This is the big year for computational propaganda — using immense data sets to manipulate public opinion over social media. Both the ...
      Read More Is Social Media Killing Democracy?

    • The life and death of political news: using online data to measure the impact of the audience agenda

      9 September 2014

      Author:

      Jonathan Bright

      The political agenda has always been shaped by what the news media decide to publish, and the question of how much influence the audience has in these decisions has ...
      Read More The life and death of political news: using online data to measure the impact of the audience agenda

    • Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere

      10 February 2014

      Author:

      Olessia Koltsova

      Blogs are becoming increasingly important for agenda setting and formation of collective public opinion on a wide range of issues — particularly in countries like Russia where the Internet ...
      Read More Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere

    • Is China shaping the Internet in Africa?

      15 August 2013

      Author:

      Iginio Gagliardone

      There are concerns that, just as Western countries have tried to promote their models of news media in Africa, China will try to export its own. However, no studies ...
      Read More Is China shaping the Internet in Africa?

    • Uncovering the patterns and practice of censorship in Chinese news sites

      8 August 2013

      Author:

      Sonya Song

      China keeps sliding down the Press Freedom Index — now languishing in 174th place out of 179. While Internet censorship has attracted much attention from scholars and institutes, including ...
      Read More Uncovering the patterns and practice of censorship in Chinese news sites

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