Tag: technology
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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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Is the rise in mobile use in Britain bridging the digital divide?
20 February 2020
Author: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, ...
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Doctoral research opportunity in Gender and AI Applications Open!
5 February 2020
Author: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 ...
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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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Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing
3 February 2020
Authors:Kelle Howson
Srujana Katta
Funda Ustek-Spilda
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, ...
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Does Technology Use Really Affect Teenage Sleep? Not as much as expected, it seems.
28 January 2020
Authors:Andrew Przybylski
Dr Amy Orben
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 ...
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New blog: Platforms, power and urbanisation uncovered
27 January 2020
Author: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 ...
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