Oxford Internet Institute

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 CC ... Read More Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

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 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 ... Read More HUMANE Workshop, Wrap-up

14 March 2017

Authors: 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

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?

24 January 2017

Authors: 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

16 January 2017

Authors: 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

20 December 2016

Authors: 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

15 December 2016

Authors: 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

6 December 2016

Authors: 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?

5 December 2016

Authors: 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

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

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

23 May 2016

Authors: Vegard Engen

As machines take a more active role in human-machine networks (HMNs), they exert an increasing level of influence on other participants. Machines are not just passive participants in such ... Read More Machine Agency and its Implications on Trust

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 ... Read More First year of HUMANE

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.