Tag: policy
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How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
5 August 2020
Authors:How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic By Masha Alimardani, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Mona Elswah, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford ...
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Doctoral research opportunity in Gender and AI Applications Open!
5 February 2020
Author: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 ...
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How can distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain, help in the fight against government corruption?
25 June 2019
Author:Nikita Aggarwal
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 ...
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How can sociological research into young people’s digital lives help shape policy?
26 November 2018
Author:Huw Davies
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 ...
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Latest Report by UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Freedom of Expression is a Landmark Document
15 June 2017
Author: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 ...
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Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)
14 June 2017
Author: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 ...
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Could universal basic income counter the gig economy’s problems?
13 April 2017
Author: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 ...
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Did you consider Twitter’s (lack of) representativeness before doing that predictive study?
10 April 2017
Author: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 ...
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Exploring the world of self-tracking: who wants our data and why?
7 April 2017
Author: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 ...
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Exploring the world of digital detoxing
2 March 2017
Authors:David Sutcliffe
Theodora Sutton
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 ...
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Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use — But Why?
1 March 2017
Author: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 ...
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Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: Fake News and Filter Bubbles
27 January 2017
Author: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
Author: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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Edit wars! Examining networks of negative social interaction
4 November 2016
Author: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 ...
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Video: Vili Lehdonvirta introduces the Online Labour Index
20 September 2016
Author:In this video, Prof Vili Lehdonvirta talks about the digital transformation of labour markets and introduces the Online Labour Index, the first economic indicator that provides an online gig ...
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Sexism Typology: Literature Review
31 May 2016
Author: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 ...
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Alan Turing Institute and OII: Summit on Data Science for Government and Policy Making
31 May 2016
Author: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 ...
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P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.
7 March 2016
Author: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 ...
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Facts and figures or prayers and hugs: how people with different health conditions support each other online
7 March 2016
Author: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 ...
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Topic modelling content from the “Everyday Sexism” project: what’s it all about?
3 March 2016
Author: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 ...
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