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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 ...
      Read More Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?

    • 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 ...
      Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – Marcus Rashford MBE

    • 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 ...
      Read More How social media echo chambers emerge (and why all your friends think Trump will lose)

    • 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 ...
      Read More Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter

    • 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 ...
      Read More Harnessing online tactics to save a species

    • How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic

      5 August 2020

      Authors:

      Mona Elswah
      Mahsa Alimardani

      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 ...
      Read More How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic

    • 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 ...
      Read More Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed

    • Misinformation and the Coronavirus Resistance

      24 April 2020

      Author:

      Philip Howard

      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 ...
      Read More Misinformation and the Coronavirus Resistance

    • Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View

      4 February 2020

      Author:

      Theodora Sutton

      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 ...
      Read More Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View

    • 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 ...
      Read More Firefighting AI-powered propaganda

    • 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 tabloidization, false content, conspiracy theories, ...
      Read More Three reasons junk news spreads so quickly across social media

    • 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 ...
      Read More The myth of the echo chamber

    • Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference?

      10 January 2018

      Author:

      Jonathan Bright

      I’ve got a new draft paper out with a host of colleagues here at the OII entitled Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence from candidate use of ...
      Read More Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference?

    • Perspective: Should We Regulate Digital Platforms?

      14 December 2017

      Author:

      Gillian Bolsover

      I invited Phil Howard and Gillian Bolsover in November of 2016 to guest edit this special issue of Big Data on ‘‘Computational Propaganda.’’ I am delighted at the collection ...
      Read More Perspective: Should We Regulate Digital Platforms?

    • Estimating local commuting patterns from geolocated Twitter data

      25 October 2017

      Author:

      Jonathan Bright

      Over the last decade or so there has been an explosion of research interest in the area of measuring (and forecasting) of traffic and commuting patterns. Part of this ...
      Read More Estimating local commuting patterns from geolocated Twitter data

    • 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

    • Pirates, Fashionistas and Dragon Queens unite to push UK youth to #RegisterToVote

      21 May 2017

      Author:

      Vyacheslav Polonski

      Instagram becomes key battleground for young voters in UK General Election 2017 As the 2017 General Election draws nearer, political parties are trying to utilise all the tools available to ...
      Read More Pirates, Fashionistas and Dragon Queens unite to push UK youth to #RegisterToVote

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

      27 January 2017

      Author:

      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

    • Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: The US Election

      20 January 2017

      Author:

      David Sutcliffe

        This is the first 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: The US Election

    • Fake News Bots

      10 January 2017

      Author:

      Gillian Bolsover

      Automated social media accounts known as ‘bots’ may be used to distort political perception online. We speak with research director Samuel Woolley of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Computational Propaganda ...
      Read More Fake News Bots

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