Tag: policy

5 February 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) collaborative doctoral studentship with the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. The Oxford Internet Institute is awarding a collaborative doctoral studentship ...
Read More Doctoral research opportunity in Gender and AI Applications Open!

25 June 2019

Authors: Sara Spinks

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 ...
Read More How can distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain, help in the fight against government corruption?

26 November 2018

Authors: Genevieve Juillet

Yesterday, for the British Sociological Association’s Presidential Event, in the famous Churchill Room in Whitehall, I had the pleasure of addressing an audience of colleagues who have invested in ...
Read More How can sociological research into young people’s digital lives help shape policy?

15 June 2017

Authors: Corinne Cattekwaad

The Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Image: United Nations Photo (Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). “The digital access industry is in the business of digital expression (…). Since privately ...
Read More Latest Report by UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Freedom of Expression is a Landmark Document

14 June 2017

Authors: Taha Yasseri

  Wikipedia uses editing bots to clean articles: but what happens when their interactions go bad? Image of “Nomade”, a sculpture in downtown Des Moines by Jason Mrachina (Flickr ...
Read More Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

13 April 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

shutterstock.com Platforms like eBay, Uber, Airbnb, and Freelancer are thriving, growing the digital economy and disrupting existing business. The question is how to ensure that the transformations they entail ...
Read More Could universal basic income counter the gig economy’s problems?

10 April 2017

Authors: Grant Blank

Twitter data have many qualities that appeal to researchers, but are probably not suitable for research where representativeness is important. Image: Bernard Goldbach (Flickr). Twitter data have many qualities ...
Read More Did you consider Twitter’s (lack of) representativeness before doing that predictive study?

7 April 2017

Authors: Gina Neff

Benjamin Franklin used to keep charts of his time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, we use technology to self-track: our hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications ...
Read More Exploring the world of self-tracking: who wants our data and why?

2 March 2017

Authors: David Sutcliffe

The new (old) inbox. Camp Grounded tries to build up attendees’ confidence to be silly and playful, with their identities less tied to their work persona — in a ...
Read More Exploring the world of digital detoxing

1 March 2017

Authors: David Sutcliffe

Small area estimation techniques allow us to estimate Internet use in small geographies in Britain: the first attempt to estimate Internet use at any small-scale level. Read the full ...
Read More Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use — But Why?

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

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

4 November 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

Network of all reverts done in the English language Wikipedia within one day (January 15, 2010). Read the full article for details. While network science has significantly advanced our ...
Read More Edit wars! Examining networks of negative social interaction

31 May 2016

Authors: Sophie Melville

The Everyday Sexism Project catalogues instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis. We will be using computational techniques to extract the most commonly occurring sexism-related topics. As ...
Read More Sexism Typology: Literature Review

31 May 2016

Authors: Helen Margetts

The benefits of big data and data science for the private sector are well recognised. So far, considerably less attention has been paid to the power and potential of ...
Read More Alan Turing Institute and OII: Summit on Data Science for Government and Policy Making

7 March 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

P-values are widely used in the social sciences, especially ‘big data’ studies, to calculate statistical significance. Yet they are widely criticized for being easily hacked, and for not telling us ...
Read More P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.

7 March 2016

Authors: Ulrike Rauer

Online support groups are being used increasingly by individuals who suffer from a wide range of medical conditions. OII DPhil Student Ulrike Deetjen‘s recent article with John Powell, Informational and emotional elements in online support ...
Read More Facts and figures or prayers and hugs: how people with different health conditions support each other online

3 March 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

We recently announced the start of an exciting new research project that will involve the use of topic modelling in understanding the patterns in submitted stories to the Everyday Sexism website. Here, we briefly explain ...
Read More Topic modelling content from the “Everyday Sexism” project: what’s it all about?

19 January 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

A new publication of ours in now out in The African Technopolitan. Graham, M., Mann, L., Friederici, N. and Waema, T. 2016. Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector, The African ...
Read More Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector (new publication)