Tag: news
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Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques
31 January 2018
Authors: Jonathan Bright
I have a new draft paper out with my colleague Tom Nicholls, entitled Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques. In it we address what ...
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HUMANE Workshop, Wrap-up
2 April 2017
Authors: Taha Yasseri
On 21st of March, we hold the HUMANE Intentional Workshop in Oxford. We had some 50+ participants from across different sectors; academia, industry, and public sectors, as well as technicians and ...
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The OII Colloquia
25 January 2017
Authors: Taha Yasseri
I am very happy to announce our new series of seminars at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), called “The OII Colloquia (TOC)“. The OII Colloquia bring senior speakers from other ...
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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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Don’t Panic over Fake News
20 November 2016
Authors: Bill Dutton
Fake News is a Wonderful Headline but Not a Reason to Panic I feel guilty for not jumping on the ‘fake news’ bandwagon. It is one of the new ...
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New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars
4 November 2016
Authors: Milena Tsvetkova
Our study on disagreement in Wikipedia was just published in Scientific Reports (impact factor 5.2). In this study, we find that disagreement and conflict in Wikipedia follow specific patterns. ...
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The Social News Gap: New article in Journal of Communication
1 July 2016
Authors: Jonathan Bright
I have a new article out in the Journal of Communication which analyses which types of news get shared the most. Based on articles published in BBC news, the ...
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First year of HUMANE
12 April 2016
Authors: Taha Yasseri
1st of April marks the anniversary of the start of our project!In this post we give a short recap of our activities in HUMANE during its first year. The ...
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Eve Binder wins the 2015 OII MSc thesis prize; Atilla-Fillipe Cevik highly commended
29 September 2015
Authors: Laura Maynard
It is a great pleasure to announce that the 2015 MSc Thesis Prize has been awarded to Eve Binder, for her thesis entitled “Can Gaming Inspire Giving? A Controlled ...
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Our Wikipedia Research in the News
27 September 2015
Authors: Mark Graham
Our research into biases in voice and power in Wikipedia has recently been published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. What surprised us was the vast ...
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The History of Social News
16 September 2015
Authors: Jonathan Bright
I am giving a presentation tomorrow at the IJPP conference here in Oxford. It’s being hosted by the Reuters Institute who are world leaders in the study of contemporary ...
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Jeremy Bowles and Sara M. Watson win the 2013 OII MSc thesis prize
10 October 2013
Authors: Laura Maynard
It is a great pleasure to announce that the 2013 MSc Thesis Prize has been awarded jointly to Jeremy Bowles and Sara M. Watson. Jeremy won the Prize for ...
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OII’s Graduate Degree Programmes Approved as a Doctoral Training Pathway for Research Students in Oxford University’s ESRC-funded Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (DTC)
19 March 2012
Authors: Laura Maynard
We’re delighted to announce that the OII’s graduate degree programmes have been approved as a recognised doctoral training pathway for research students in Oxford University’s ESRC-funded Social Science Doctoral Training ...
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OII MSc Student Elizabeth Dubois in Oxford’s Winning Rugby Blues Squad
8 March 2012
Authors: Laura Maynard
Elizabeth Dubois, reading for an MSc in the Social Sciences of the Internet at the OII, played in the Oxford University Women’s Rugby Varsity Match against Cambridge on March ...
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Weekend Quick Hits
18 February 2012
Authors: Alexander Furnas
This is going to become a weekly thing. Just some quick notes about interesting things that have been floating around over the week and are worth a quick comment. ...
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CNN, Some Consistency Please?
13 February 2012
Authors: Amanda Summers-Plotno
CNN recently suspended political contributor Roland Martin after he posted controversial tweets during the Super Bowl. If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s ...
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Is Linkbait the new Classifieds?
5 February 2012
Authors: Alexander Furnas
The news has always been subsidized; it has never been a money maker. Print newspapers were mechanisms that bundled content and the lucrative parts – automotive, home and garden, ...
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