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By Cedefop
Cedefop’s CrowdLearn study is the first to examine skills development and skill matching practices in online platform work. It presents evidence from interviews with platform economy stakeholders, as well as crowdworkers themselves.
By Anne Ploin, Rebecca Eynon, Isis Hjorth, and Michael A. Osborne
There has been much talk about the potential of AI, but could it really transform the creative arts?
By Mark McFadden, Kate Jones, Emily Taylor and Georgia Osborn, Oxford Information Labs
The draft EU AI Regulation is a far-reaching attempt to provide a regulatory foundation for the safe, fair, and innovative development of Artificial Intelligence in the European Union.
NBC News, 27 June 2022
Emotion recognition technology typically relies on software to look at any number of qualities to automatically detect emotional state, Prof Sandra Wachter shares her insights on the ethics behind the tech.
rest of world, 28 June 2022
Doctoral Researcher Nayana Prakash shares her insights on using online platforms like Instagram to shape historical memory.
Rwanda Post, 25 June 2022
Countries on the African continent stand to lose out on the growing global internet economy if challenges around data sovereignty are not addressed head on, with latest insights from researcher Dr Fabian Braesemann.
28 June 2022
The Internet promised to spread economic opportunities to rural areas, but employment trends show the opposite. Prof Vili Lehdonvirta and Dr Fabian Braesemann discuss whether online labour platforms can help counter this trend.
21 June 2022
Congratulations to OII academics named as recipients of divisional teaching awards.
16 June 2022
Expert view: Digital ethics and defence expert Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo explains more.
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27 January 2022
The first in a series of joint webinars looking at the theme of AI & work, jointly curated by the Oxford Internet Institute and TUM Heilbronn Campus.
21 January 2022
Dr Alison Kahn, Loughborough University, discusses her paper on the role of social media in the making of the film "We, The Zeme" (2021) about the first Zeme Naga Olympics.
11 January 2022
In this presentation Professors Kim and Mike Fortun discuss archive ethnography as an experimental way to produce, curate, communicate and politically activate ethnographic knowledge.
