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    • Why social data science matters to societal resilience

      15 May 2020

      Author:

      Balazs Vedres

      Dr Balazs Vedres, Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director for the DPhil in Social Data Science, sets out why the discipline is more important than ever The importance of ...
      Read More Why social data science matters to societal resilience

    • Is the rise in mobile use in Britain bridging the digital divide?

      20 February 2020

      Author:

      Sara Spinks

      As Britain increasingly becomes a digital society, findings from the latest Oxford Internet Survey (OXIS) report, ‘The Rise of Mobile Internet Use in Britain, co-authored by Dr Grant Blank, ...
      Read More Is the rise in mobile use in Britain bridging the digital divide?

    • Introducing the 2019 MSc Thesis Prize Winners

      21 November 2019

      Author:

      Sara Spinks

      Congratulations to all our winners of the 2019 OII MSC thesis prize. It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019 OII MSc Thesis Prize.  This ...
      Read More Introducing the 2019 MSc Thesis Prize Winners

    • Better and locally sensitive use of data could cut traffic jams

      6 November 2019

      Author:

      Chico Camargo

      Ever been stuck in queuing traffic which seems to have no explanation? Have you ever encountered a roundabout which creates more congestion than can be relieved? No surprise there: ...
      Read More Better and locally sensitive use of data could cut traffic jams

    • Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet

      16 October 2017

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      My colleagues Joss Wright, Martin Dittus and I have been scraping the world’s largest darknet marketplaces over the last few months, as part of our darknet mapping project. The data we ...
      Read More Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet

    • Twitter trials 280 characters, but its success in Japan is more than a character difference

      1 October 2017

      Author:

      Scott A. Hale

      Twitter has rolled out a limited trial of 280 characters for some of its users. In announcing the trial, Twitter specifically noted that most Japanese tweets had 15 characters ...
      Read More Twitter trials 280 characters, but its success in Japan is more than a character difference

    • Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

      14 June 2017

      Author:

      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)

    • Did you consider Twitter’s (lack of) representativeness before doing that predictive study?

      10 April 2017

      Author:

      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?

    • Exploring the world of self-tracking: who wants our data and why?

      7 April 2017

      Author:

      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?

    • HUMANE Workshop, Wrap-up

      2 April 2017

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More HUMANE Workshop, Wrap-up

    • Machine agency and the future of work

      14 March 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      The introduction of new technology causes concern for the future of work. What is the role of humans in a work life in which an increasing number of tasks ...
      Read More Machine agency and the future of work

    • Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use — But Why?

      1 March 2017

      Author:

      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?

    • Help us improve the HUMANE roadmaps on Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation!

      27 January 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      The HUMANE project is building roadmaps that can help guide future policies in specific social domains such as Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation. The HUMANE roadmaps act as a ...
      Read More Help us improve the HUMANE roadmaps on Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation!

    • Cyberbullying: no place to hide

      24 January 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      In an excellent cross-cultural study on Wikipedia edit/revert behaviours [1], Tsvetkova and her colleagues argue among other things for a mediating effect of culture in accounting for different dominance patterns ...
      Read More Cyberbullying: no place to hide

    • HUMANE Roadmapping Process

      16 January 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      In the course of the HUMANE project, we examine a sample of social domains, where human-machine interaction is expected to be significant in the future. We study the type ...
      Read More HUMANE Roadmapping Process

    • Sensitive data, cognitive resource and my community: extending the Tie Strength dimension

      20 December 2016

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      Are users always worried about their data? One consequence of the Wanless report is a need for more distributed healthcare. This means that an ageing and expanding patient population ...
      Read More Sensitive data, cognitive resource and my community: extending the Tie Strength dimension

    • GDPR: the right to be forgotten

      15 December 2016

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      What does HUMANE profiling tell us about data protection?  Back in 1995, the European Parliament issued the Directive for data protection, which by 1998 had passed into national law ...
      Read More GDPR: the right to be forgotten

    • Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?

      6 December 2016

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump in a residential backyard near Jordan Creek Parkway and Cody Drive in West Des Moines, Iowa, with lights and security cameras. Image by Tony ...
      Read More Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?

    • Even Good Bots Fight

      5 December 2016

      Author:

      Milena Tsvetkova

      In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots ...
      Read More Even Good Bots Fight

    • New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

      4 November 2016

      Author:

      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. ...
      Read More New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

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