Tag: technology

30 March 2021

María Belén Albornoz
Henry Chávez
Jean-Paul Van Belle
Funda Ustek-Spilda
Alessio Bertolini
Pablo Aguera Reneses
Akhil Kumar
Mark Graham

Fairwork Ecuador Scores 2021: Rating fairness in the Latin American gig economy The Fairwork Ecuador 2021 report evaluates the working conditions in six of the most prominent platforms in ...
Read More Fairwork Ecuador Scores 2021: Rating fairness in the Latin American gig economy

17 March 2021

Srujana Katta
Pablo Aguera
Ahkil Kumar
Funda Ustek Spilda
Kelle Howson
Matthew Cole
Fabian Ferrari
Alessio Bertolini
David Sutcliffe
Mark Graham

By Srujana Katta, Pablo Aguera, Akhil Kumar, Funda Ustek Spilda, Kelle Howson, Matthew Cole, Fabian Ferrari, Alessio Bertolini, David Sutcliffe, Mark Graham A month after the UK Supreme Court ...
Read More Uber forced to recognise its drivers as workers, but falls short of offering Fair Pay and Representation

24 February 2021

Fabian Stephany
Vili Lehdonvirta

Digital labour platforms have become a pervasive feature of contemporary society. They allow us to order food, arrange a ride, or buy remote freelancing services online. But how are ...
Read More ILO report: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work

19 February 2021

Sara Spinks

Fairwork researchers explain how they are shining a light on the experiences of gig workers across the globe by launching a suite of new online materials dedicated to ensuring ...
Read More Lifting the lid on the gig economy

10 February 2021

As part of Safer Internet Day, listen now to Professor Victoria Nash, Deputy Director, OII, University of Oxford speaking to BBC Radio Oxford presenter Adam Ball about digital parenting ...
Read More Afternoons on BBC Oxford interview with Professor Victoria Nash

4 February 2021

julia slupska
scarlet dawson duckworth

Julia Slupska, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Cyber Technology Specialist at Darktrace and OII alumna,  share their perspectives on the limitations of mainstream approaches ...
Read More Reconfigure: Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity

27 January 2021

Lisa-Maria Neudert

OxCAIGG Commission Secretary and Research Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute, Lisa-Maria Neudert sets out the case for better regulation in AI systems. The challenge of using AI for good governance ...
Read More Good governance for trustworthy AI in the European Union

17 December 2020

Nikita Aggarwal
Luciano Floridi

Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute and doctoral candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet ...
Read More Intercultural Digital Ethics at the OII

15 December 2020

Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores In the second year of research, The Fairwork India 2020 report evaluates the working conditions on eleven digital platforms ...
Read More Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores

10 November 2020

Sara Spinks

Fairwork researchers Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, and Professor Mark Graham explain the implications of Proposition 22 legislation on gig economy workers. Last Tuesday, voters in California ...
Read More California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide

5 November 2020

Vili Lehdonvirta
Julian Albert

In their blog, Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, Vili Lehdonvirta and  doctoral candidate Julian Albert outline how online freelancers develop their skills, how platform providers match ...
Read More How workers learn skills in the online platform economy, and how platforms, policies, and learning providers can support them

3 November 2020

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?

28 October 2020

Shelly Steward
Pablo Aguera Reneses
Srujana Katta
Mark Graham

California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law Researchers from the Fairwork Foundation, Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, and Professor Mark Graham explain what ...
Read More California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law

23 October 2020

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)

21 October 2020

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

30 September 2020

Nikita Aggarwal
Luciano Floridi
Matthias Qian

By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Matthias Qian, Departmental Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of ...
Read More Uphold Digital Sovereignty, Avert Digital Autarky  

25 September 2020

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

18 September 2020

Mark Graham
Cailean Osborne

In their new blog, Professor Mark Graham, and Dr Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Cailean Osborne, a former MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute, ...
Read More Uneven and contested information geographies: How Wikipedia risks reproducing and reinforcing knowledge inequities through its digital representation of cities

10 September 2020

Nikita Aggarwal
Luciano Floridi

Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and doctoral candidate, Faculty of Law, University ...
Read More Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy

19 August 2020

Fabian Braesemann
Niklas Stoehr

In their new blog, Niklas Stoehr, IBM, AI Core, GER; Fabian Braesemann, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; Michael Frommelt, IBM, AI Core, GER; and Shi Zhou, University College, ...
Read More How the Covid-19 crisis facilitates innovation – and how to measure it with online data