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

27 January 2017

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

7 December 2016

Authors: 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 ...
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Is Social Media Killing Democracy?

15 November 2016

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

9 September 2014

Authors: 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 ...
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Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere

10 February 2014

Authors: 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 ...
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Is China shaping the Internet in Africa?

15 August 2013

Authors: 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 ...
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Uncovering the patterns and practice of censorship in Chinese news sites

8 August 2013

Authors: 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 ...
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