AI is Creating a New Gender Divide
Newsweek, 10 July 2025
The AI revolution isn't ahead of us; it's here. But, for a technology that's been heralded as the future, it risks bringing with it problems from the past.
13 Ways Video Games May Affect Mental Health
Pixel Parenting, 25 June 2025
In Part 2 of a special series with Dr. Nick Ballou, postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, the Pixel Parenting podcast team dives into what research actually says about the effects of video games on mental health.
What Parents Should Know About Video Game Research
Pixel Parenting, 04 June 2025
In this first part of a two-part series, Dr. Nick Ballou, a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, pulls back the curtain on how video game research is actually done.
Are The Velvet Sundown an AI Band? What We Know
Newsweek, 09 July 2025
Newsweek covers The Velvet Sundown, a "synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence," with commentary from Dr Fabian Stephany.
Bot-ched advice – ‘disturbing’ results in AI study
British Medical Association, 10 July 2025
Chatbots do quite well in diagnosing conditions, but only in other chatbots, new research has found.
Meta’s Record-Breaking Undersea Cable, AI That Saves Diabetic Feet & Tinder’s Double Dating
Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast, 09 July 2025
Meta’s Project Waterworth isn’t just another undersea cable - it’s an 18,000 mile behemoth set to link continents, with India’s data centres as a key hub. Anniki Mikelsaar from the OII breaks down its geopolitical stakes.
Are startup founders different?
The Economist, 30 June 2025
The best entrepreneurs ask themselves a particular question about work, and tend to be more adventurous and open to novelty than the population at large.
Consequences of home office – now the change in the housing market is becoming apparent
Die Welt, 08 July 2025
Many companies are currently ordering on-site work again. The trend toward hybrid working has significantly changed the housing market, according to a study using Vienna as an example.
Housing market and the pandemic
Radio Wien, 06 July 2025
Dr Fabian Brasemann speaks to Radio Wien about his latest study.
Pandemic has changed the housing market
ORF, 06 July 2025
The Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on life and work have also changed the housing market in Vienna.
Rent shock 2025: How to protect yourself from being displaced from your neighbourhood
Focus Online, 04 July 2025
Rents are rising everywhere – from Berlin to Tokyo. Data researcher Fabian Braesemann analyzes why this is the case and what a study from Vienna reveals about the pandemic and the housing market.
Water For Data
Al Jazeera, 03 July 2025
"What’s the environmental cost of our increasing data usage?" asks Al Jazeera, in a new documentary featuring an interview with the OII's Dr Ana Valdivia.