Tag: technology
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Intercultural Digital Ethics at the OII
17 December 2020
Authors: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 ...
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Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores
15 December 2020
Author: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 ...
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California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide
10 November 2020
Author: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 ...
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How workers learn skills in the online platform economy, and how platforms, policies, and learning providers can support them
5 November 2020
Authors: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 ...
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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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California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law
28 October 2020
Authors: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 ...
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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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Uphold Digital Sovereignty, Avert Digital Autarky
30 September 2020
Authors: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 ...
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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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Uneven and contested information geographies: How Wikipedia risks reproducing and reinforcing knowledge inequities through its digital representation of cities
18 September 2020
Authors: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, ...
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Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy
10 September 2020
Authors: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 ...
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How the Covid-19 crisis facilitates innovation – and how to measure it with online data
19 August 2020
Authors: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, ...
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AI @ Work: overcoming structural challenges to ensure successful implementation of AI in the workplace
13 August 2020
Author:By Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford News reports about artificial intelligence overwhelmingly showcase how AI is supposed to work. Yet ...
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How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
5 August 2020
Authors: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 ...
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Why the Digital Society needs the Open Society
13 July 2020
Authors:Fabian Braesemann
Fabian Stephany
May 2020 – It was big news, not only for the tech industry, when Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would go fully remote. Now, we can ...
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Preserving privacy in the age of Big Data
1 May 2020
Author:Sian Brooke
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 ...
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What we all need to know about AI
25 March 2020
Author: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 ...
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Challenging gender stereotypes in cybersecurity: a feminist perspective
8 March 2020
Author:Julia Slupska
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 ...
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Cutting congestion and minimising traffic disruption using online mapping data
6 March 2020
Author: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 ...
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