Tag: technology

1 May 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

Siân Brooke, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, explores the challenges of a data driven economy and the impact on our personal privacy in the digital ...
Read More Preserving privacy in the age of Big Data

25 March 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

Leading sociologist, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, explains what’s at stake What is AI? Put simply, AI is the ability of a digital ...
Read More What we all need to know about AI

8 March 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

A Blog by Julia Slupska, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity, Oxford Internet Institute and Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Cyber Technologist, Darktrace.  Slupska and Duckworth write on behalf ...
Read More Challenging gender stereotypes in cybersecurity: a feminist perspective

6 March 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

In his latest blog, OII postdoctoral researcher Dr Chico Q. Camargo explains why using data from online mapping tools can help policymakers and planners better predict traffic flow and ...
Read More Cutting congestion and minimising traffic disruption using online mapping data

20 February 2020

Authors: 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?

5 February 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) collaborative doctoral studentship with the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. The Oxford Internet Institute is awarding a collaborative doctoral studentship ...
Read More Doctoral research opportunity in Gender and AI Applications Open!

4 February 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

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

3 February 2020

Authors: Mark Graham

Latest analysis on the gig economy from researchers Kelle Howson, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda and Professor Mark Graham,   The authors work at the University of Oxford’s Fairwork Foundation, ...
Read More Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing

28 January 2020

Authors: Andrew Przybylski

Professor Andy Przybylski and Dr Amy Orben answer questions about their latest paper: Teenage sleep and technology engagements across the week. Firstly, let’s remind ourselves, why is sleep so ...
Read More Does Technology Use Really Affect Teenage Sleep? Not as much as expected, it seems.

27 January 2020

Authors: Mark Graham

In his latest blog, Professor Mark Graham explores why thinking about the geographies of platforms is of crucial importance if we are to tame their power. It may seem ...
Read More New blog: Platforms, power and urbanisation uncovered

24 January 2020

Authors: Sara Spinks

MSc student Jessica Morley and Pofessor Luciano Floridi answers questions about their call for a new approach to ethical standards in Artificial Intelligence (AI), published in leading medical journal, The ...
Read More An ethically-minded approach to AI for healthcare by Morley and Floridi

27 November 2019

Authors: Corinne Cattekwaad

BUSTED! – OII researchers contribute to new book busting 50 of the most common myths about the Internet.  Co -author, DPhil candidate Corinne Cath-Spet, explains more. The people and organizations ...
Read More BUSTED! – OII researchers help to debunk 50 most common myths about the Internet

21 November 2019

Authors: 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

7 November 2019

Authors: Joe Shaw

Like the legal profession, it has often been said that the world of real estate is characterised by ‘oily connections‘ and personal networks in a manner that leaves it ...
Read More Platform Real Estate

20 August 2019

Authors: Sara Spinks

Blind faith in the ability of new technologies to solve deep-rooted social problems is naive and dangerous. The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution seems inevitable. At least, if we are ...
Read More Politicians and Administrators: Don’t expect miracles from Artificial Intelligence

7 August 2019

Authors: Sara Spinks

Women often find themselves strongly disadvantaged in the field of software development, in particular when it comes to open source. In a study recently published in EPJ Data Science, ...
Read More Women’s disadvantage: because of who they are, or what they do?

21 February 2019

Authors: Helen Margetts

In this post, Helen Margetts, Cosmina Dorobantu, Florian Ostmann, and Christina Hitrova discuss the focus on ‘technological solutions’ in the context of the Irish border debate — arguing that ...
Read More Five reasons ‘technological solutions’ are a distraction from the Irish border problem

14 February 2018

Authors: Genevieve Juillet

Gaming addiction is expected to be classified as a mental disorder by the World Health Organisation (WHO) but – while concerns over the addictive properties of video games are ...
Read More Gaming addiction as a mental disorder: it’s premature to pathologise players

12 February 2018

Authors: Genevieve Juillet

In 1967, Cosmopolitan Magazine wrote that, unlike men, women were ideal computer scientists because “programming was just like planning a dinner.” So, what happened? In ‘Beards, Sandals, and Other ...
Read More Code like a girl: how can we increase the number of women in STEM?