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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?
The Guardian, 26 January 2023
The publishers of thousands of scientific journals have banned or restricted contributors’ use of an advanced AI-driven chatbot amid concerns that it could pepper academic literature with flawed and even fabricated research.
Net New - Der Meta Podcast, 19 January 2023
In this episode, experts from business and research explain which new technologies will come our way in the next few years and how exactly we can already say today what the world of tomorrow will look like. [In German]
Hindustan Times, 23 January 2023
We’ve made our peace with doomscrolling. That’s just the way it is, we say — there’s bad news in the world; it comes at us in a steady stream; attached is a string of responses that are inane at best, violent and invasive at worst.
30 January 2023
Remote work is here to stay. But while many of us could work from "anywhere", the urbanisation of digital work continues. Cities are becoming the mega-hubs for online-mediated work. But what will this change bring to our cities and the rural regions
19 January 2023
University of Oxford researchers have published new work exploring how health misinformation campaigns are able to operate and succeed online, using infrastructure provided by the world’s leading tech companies.
28 December 2022
Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Associate Professor and Senior Policy Fellow, Dr Victoria Nash, shares her top tips for parents and carers to keep their children safe online.
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With David G. Robinson
Voices in the Code is the story of how one community built a life-and-death algorithm in a relatively inclusive, accountable way.
With Dr Murali Shanmugavelan
An introduction to Critical Caste and Technology Studies with Dr Murali Shanmugavelan
17:00 -18:30, Online
With Andreas TsamadosA discussion on censorship-resistance, web archiving and ensuring secure and easy access to information and people on the Internet.
15:30 -17:00, Online
This presentation will explore how women in Turkey use self-tracking technologies to draw new boundaries between home and work and to develop new approaches to housework, labor, and productivity under neoliberal, digital capitalism.
