Do language models have an issue with gender?
9 June 2025
The Oxford Internet Institute’s Franziska Sofia Hafner explores whether language models are perpetuating gender stereotypes.
AI’s limited understanding of gender puts health equity at risk
21 May 2025
Oxford researchers reveal how AI language models encode a flawed and binary understanding of gender, posing significant risks for transgender, nonbinary, and even cisgender individuals.
How the social media debate on teen mental health is missing the point
13 May 2025
Expert Comment: Professor Andy Przybylski explains how the social media debate on teen mental health is missing the point.
Dramatic rise in publicly downloadable deepfake image generators
7 May 2025
New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women.
Adolescents with mental health conditions use social media differently than their peers, study suggests
6 May 2025
One of the first studies in this area to use clinical-level diagnoses reveals a range of differences between young people with and without mental health conditions when it comes to social media – from changes in mood to time spent on sites.
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.