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Lifting the lid on misinformation in the media, join us at MISDOOM 2021
20 September 2021
Author:Anna George
Lifting the lid on misinformation in the media, join us at MISDOOM 2021 After two successful editions, the international MISDOOM symposium on misinformation in online media returns for a ...
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Unbiased Big Data: A new area of forecasting?
2 September 2021
Authors:Fabian Stephany
Hamza Salem
By Dr Fabian Stephany, Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute and Hamza Salem, Oxford Internet Institute alumnus In short: Forecasting elections is a century-old endeavour. We study Wikipedia as a novel ...
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Tackling online hate speech one emoji at a time
13 August 2021
Author:Hannah Rose Kirk
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) exposes critical problems in how emoji-based online hate is tackled, with OII researchers uncovering critical weaknesses in how Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
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Are We Really Living in an ‘Infodemic’? Science Suggests a Different Story
2 August 2021
Authors:Are We Really Living in an ‘Infodemic’? Science Suggests a Different Story Dr Chico Q. Camargo, Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Departmental Lecturer at the ...
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AI’s coming home: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Tackle Racist Emoji in Football
16 July 2021
Author:Hannah Kirk
AI’s coming home: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Tackle Racist Emoji in Football writes MSc and DPhil student Hannah Kirk. Content Warning: This article contains some examples of emoji-based ...
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Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they’re not political
14 July 2021
Authors:Silvia Milano
Brent Mittelstadt
Sandra Wachter
Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they’re not political Leading experts in ethics and law Dr Silvia Milano, Dr Brent Mittelstadt and Professor Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet ...
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Privacy matters – but there’s more to WhatsApp’s story
12 July 2021
Author:Nayana Prakash
Privacy matters – but there’s more to WhatsApp’s story explains doctoral researcher Nayana Prakash If you’re one of WhatsApp’s two billion users, chances are you may have had a ...
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Lifting the lid on misinformation in the media, join us at MISDOOM 2021
21 May 2021
Author:Sara Spinks
After two successful editions, the international MISDOOM symposium on misinformation in online media returns for a 3rd edition, this time co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Universiteit ...
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Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?
3 November 2020
Authors:Hamza Salem
Fabian Stephany
Predicting the outcome of the 2020 US Senate election using Wikipedia pageview data by Hamza Salem, Oxford Internet Institute MSc Alumnus and Dr Fabian Stephany, Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute. In ...
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Black Heroes of the Internet – Marcus Rashford MBE
26 October 2020
Author:Mark Malbas
Marcus Rashford MBE has harnessed the power of the internet to campaign for political change. Rashford, a forward for Manchester United and England, has leveraged his huge profile on ...
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How social media echo chambers emerge (and why all your friends think Trump will lose)
23 October 2020
Author:Christian Blex
The ongoing Covid-19 crisis has moved more of our interactions online than ever before. Yet in the current political climate the perils of social media are rampant. In his ...
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Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter
21 October 2020
Authors:Fabian Stephany
Philipp Darius
Philipp Darius, doctoral candidate, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin and Dr Fabian Stephany, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, explain how political actors are highjacking hashtags to polarise ...
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Harnessing online tactics to save a species
25 September 2020
Authors:Joss Wright
Hunter Doughty
By Hunter Doughty, Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Zoology and Dr Joss Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Targeted advertising and news coverage are ...
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How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
5 August 2020
Authors:Oxford doctoral candidates Mahsa Alimardani and Mona Elswah present the case for how the new phenomenon of ‘religious misinformation’ is adding to the Covid-19 infodemic in many countries across ...
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Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed
7 July 2020
Authors:David Sutcliffe
Peaks Krafft
Joan Donovan
Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. While many studies have emphasized the importance of identity confirmation ...
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Misinformation and the Coronavirus Resistance
24 April 2020
Author:Multiplying threat, and the inspiring resistance Would you believe that the Coronavirus was created by a cruel government to weaken its foreign rivals? Or that it was created by ...
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Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View
4 February 2020
Author:Q&A with Doctoral Candidate Theodora Sutton In her article “Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View“, published in Anthropology Today, OII DPhil student and digital anthropologist Theodora Sutton offers ...
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Firefighting AI-powered propaganda
6 April 2018
Authors:Lanisha Butterfield
Vidya Narayanan
Dr Vidya Narayanan, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and post-doctoral researcher on the Computational Propaganda Research Project, discusses her work understanding the effects of technology and social ...
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Three reasons junk news spreads so quickly across social media
26 March 2018
Authors:Philip Howard
Samantha Bradshaw
Why and how has the rise of social media contributed to the spread of what we at the Computational Propaganda Project call “junk news”–the tabloidisation, false content, conspiracy theories, ...
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The myth of the echo chamber
9 March 2018
Authors:Grant Blank
Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa)
There are widespread fears that so-called echo chambers and filter bubbles are leading to political polarization that poses a danger to democracy. But are the fears unfounded? (Melvin Sokolsky/1963 ...
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