13 ways gaming affects your mental health – for better and worse
30 April 2025
New Oxford study offers roadmap for understanding video games’ complex impact on wellbeing
Expert Comment: How can we encourage engagement with online fact-checking
22 April 2025
In his latest opinion piece, Dr Mohsen Mosleh explores the role of shared ideology and social connection as influencing factors in fact-checking and countering online misinformation.
Introducing the 2024 MSc Thesis Prize Winners
11 April 2025
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 OII MSc Thesis Prizes. These prizes recognize outstanding work and contributions to the field.
Social Ties More Effective Than Shared Politics in Garnering Engagement With Online Corrections
31 March 2025
New research reveals that social connections, more so than political alignment, can promote engagement with user-driven corrections of misinformation on social media platforms like X.
Expert Comment: Can Europe hold the line of liberal democracies?
31 March 2025
The OII's Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo explores the digitalisation of defence and its intersection with liberal democratic values.
It’s quality not quantity that predicts gamers’ wellbeing, new study finds
12 March 2025
New analysis finds that the number of hours spent playing Nintendo games did not significantly affect adults’ mental well-being, life satisfaction, emotional state, or depressive symptoms.
What Meta’s plan to build the world’s longest undersea cable means for digital infrastructure and geopolitics
10 March 2025
Meta recently announced its plan to build the world’s longest submarine cable system. The OII’s Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and DPhil candidate Anniki Mikelsaar ask what geopolitical and economic significance this new project may have.
New report reveals best and worst practices in the platform economy in the US
5 March 2025
New report by the University of California, Irvine, King’s College London and Oxford University reveals best and worst practices in the platform economy in the US.
Practical expertise drives salary premiums in the AI sector, finds new Oxford study
3 March 2025
New analysis from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute examines how businesses in the UK are responding to the hiring gaps in AI-related recruitment, and whether skills proficiency commands a higher salary than a higher education degree.
The Limits of the Relevance of Digital Impacts: The 2025 German Bundestag Elections
20 February 2025
This final article of the OII Elections series asks: What is the role of digital factors in Germany’s election?
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Defence
3 February 2025
In Conversation with Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo, Oxford Internet Institute discussing the ethics of AI in defence.
The Winners and Losers of Generative AI in the Freelance Job Market
29 January 2025
A new study led by an international research team, including Dr Fabian Braesemann from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, shows how Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping the workforce.