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Video: Is Social Media Killing Democracy? Computational Propaganda, Algorithms, Automation and Public Life
15 June 2017
Authors: Philip Howard
The Oxford Internet Institute presents Professor Philip Howard’s Inaugural Lecture. The design and implementation of social media platforms has put several advanced democracies into a kind of democratic deficit. ... Read More Video: Is Social Media Killing Democracy? Computational Propaganda, Algorithms, Automation and Public Life
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Video: Ten things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do about them)
5 May 2017
Authors: Philip Howard
In this talk, Prof Phil Howard explains how we are targeted and manipulated by social media and bots trying to influence voter behaviour. Since 2012, Professor Howard and team have ... Read More Video: Ten things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do about them)
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A look at bots influencing social media in the US election, ways to take back control of your mobile, and the latest drone from GoPro
25 September 2016
Authors: Philip Howard
Our research was featured in a segment of the BBC show Click, about the role of social media bots in modern political communication. Watch the video on BBC iPlayer. ... Read More A look at bots influencing social media in the US election, ways to take back control of your mobile, and the latest drone from GoPro
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BBC Click: A look at bots influencing social media in the US election
25 September 2016
Authors: Philip Howard
The project’s research was featured in a segment of the BBC show Click, which discussed the role of social media bots in modern political communication. Watch the video on ... Read More BBC Click: A look at bots influencing social media in the US election
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Video: Vili Lehdonvirta introduces the Online Labour Index
20 September 2016
Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta
In this video, Prof Vili Lehdonvirta talks about the digital transformation of labour markets and introduces the Online Labour Index, the first economic indicator that provides an online gig ... Read More Video: Vili Lehdonvirta introduces the Online Labour Index
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A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others
19 September 2016
Authors: Bill Dutton
The Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University had one of its (now) annual retreats on a beautiful Friday in the clubhouse of a local golf course. ... Read More A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others
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Video: Politics, Propaganda, and Bots–The Changing Nature of Cyber Warfare
19 May 2016
Authors: Philip Howard
The News Impact Summit London on the theme, “Trolls, Corruption, Falsehood: Reporting ‘Truth’ in the Digital Age”. The event was held on Thursday 12 May 2016 at the Sheikh ... Read More Video: Politics, Propaganda, and Bots–The Changing Nature of Cyber Warfare
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Politics, Propaganda, and Bots–The Changing Nature of Cyber Warfare
19 May 2016
Authors: Philip Howard
Sam Woolley was a member of a panel at the News Impact Summit on the theme, “Trolls, Corruption, Falsehood: Reporting ‘Truth’ in the Digital Age”. The event was held on ... Read More Politics, Propaganda, and Bots–The Changing Nature of Cyber Warfare
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Sam Woolley Speaks at Princeton
1 April 2016
Authors: Philip Howard
The project’s Sam Woolley presented some of the project’s research findings at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology and Policy. The video is available here. Note: This ... Read More Sam Woolley Speaks at Princeton
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Video of ‘Digital Economies’ Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
8 October 2015
Authors: Mark Graham
I recently had the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the Global Conference on Economic Geography. The talk was part of a broader session on digital economies that Matthew ... Read More Video of ‘Digital Economies’ Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
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Digital Economies: Video of Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
8 October 2015
Authors: Mark Graham
I recently had the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the Global Conference on Economic Geography. The talk was part of a broader session on digital economies that Matthew ... Read More Digital Economies: Video of Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
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Video – “Semantic cities: Coded geopolitics and rise of the semantic web”
21 November 2014
Authors: Mark Graham
Heather Ford and I recently had the opportunity to visit some of the Programmable City group in Maynooth, Ireland as part of their ‘Code and the City‘ workshop. Our ... Read More Video – “Semantic cities: Coded geopolitics and rise of the semantic web”
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Preserving the digital record of major natural disasters: the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive project
29 June 2012
Authors: Paul Millar
We talk to Paul Millar, project leader of the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive project about the role of digital humanities in preserving the digital record of the impact ... Read More Preserving the digital record of major natural disasters: the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive project
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Slicing digital data: methodological challenges in computational social science
30 May 2012
Authors: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
It is easy to drown in digital data and not know what to do with it. OII Research Fellow Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon discusses some of the methodological challenges faced by ... Read More Slicing digital data: methodological challenges in computational social science
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Multilingual sharing in video
5 November 2010
Authors: Scott A. Hale
I’ve thought a lot about translation and multilingual sharing online in text environments (blogs, Wikipedia, social networking sites), but I’m reminded how quickly platforms change on the web, and ... Read More Multilingual sharing in video
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Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Closing keynote by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
17 September 2010
Authors: Tobias Escher
Our two-day conference is coming to a close with a keynote by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger who is soon to be joining the faculty of the Oxford Internet Institute as Professor of ... Read More Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Closing keynote by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Oxford Internet Institute
A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.
A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.
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