Capturing the Digital Footprints of Video Game Play
We’re developing an open source method of collecting behavioural video game data, to allow for rigorous science without relying on direct collaboration with industry.
AI is not photography: AI, cultural categories, and occupational legitimacy.
The emergence of AI image generation tools raises questions about their impact on creative professionals. This project seeks to work with professional photographers to explore the impact of this technology on their occupational legitimacy.
Understanding the Causes of the Reverse Personal Computing Revolution
The shift to cloud represents a reversal of the 1980s personal computing revolution: computation is moving from personal devices back into large, centralized facilities. This project seeks to understand the economic drivers of this reversal.
The Promise of AI in Childcare
With mobile devices ubiquitous among young people, it is not surprising that parents are increasingly turning to technology for help in childcare. This project examines monitoring technologies and how parents use them as part of child supervision.
Conversations between governments and citizens in a digital society
This project seeks to understand how citizens listen and speak to public institutions, and how alternative AI-based models and framing might encourage democratic communication.
The Science of Startups Initiative
This project aims to reveal the determinants of success in entrepreneurship, startups and innovation ecosystems using data science and qualitative research methods.
Fairness standards for large language models
This project explores the role that fairness standards, broadly understood, can play in mitigating societal biases from LLMs.
The Political Economy of AI and News
This project seeks to explore the attitudes of platform companies and AI start-ups around AI, news and journalism, particularly how the power relationships between the AI sector and publishers impacts the production and circulation of news.
Work Hard, Play Hard: The Role of Modding and AI on Gaming Experiences
This project explores the process of creating new or altered content and sharing that via the web, often known as modding. In particular, it asks how modding changes the relationship between work and play in video games, and how AI is affecting this.
Internet Shutdowns and Mobilisation: Predictive Modelling of Network Interference
This project uses machine learning techniques to model technical trends in internet shutdown behaviours, and positions these technical developments within broader censorship activities, and the associated deterioration of civil and political rights.
Inspiring climate action: Can AI-generated news outperform human news?
This project seeks to assess the persuasiveness of AI-generated news stories in the context of climate change by comparing in an online experiment how persuasive such news stories are compared to news stories written by humans.
The online transmission of harmful narratives
The aim of this project is to develop an AI-enhanced tool that integrates Large Language Models and social science theory for the rapid detection of conspiracy theories and provide insights to governments and policymakers on combatting such theories.