OII | Projects

Towards equity focused approaches to EdTech: a socio-technical perspective

This project investigates the relationships between equity, digital technologies and teaching and learning.

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Gendered Experiences of AI-mediated work

This project seeks to understand the gendered experiences of UK gig workers, to explore common safety risks associated with e-hailing and delivery work, along with examining risk-mitigation tactics employed by workers in response to platform design.

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AI, News, and the Transformation of the Public Arena

This project studies the adoption, use, and effects of AI in commercial and public service news organisations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

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How China Manipulates Online Audiences

This project develops novel AI NLP tools to investigate how China is developing and strategically deploying AI and other tools for social control and online discourse manipulation.

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Developing New Open Source Automated Fact Checking Tools

In analyzing the public discourse around political figures, this project seeks to develop AI tools to identify claims that are fact-checkable and check worthy, which can be used to improve how governments are held accountable.

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Seeing and believing: Understanding multi-stakeholder AI governance

Artificial intelligence-driven tactics for manipulating and generating visual information have become increasingly sophisticated and accessible. This project examines how diverse stakeholders can affect AI governance for synthetic media.

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Re-humanization in symbolic space

This project explores re-humanisation in online interactions, using the case study of relationships between Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarussians after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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The Emerging Laws of Oversight

This project asks how laws and regulations can be improved to promote the effectiveness of human oversight in automated decision-making and better protect people from harm.

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SkillScale: Understanding Emerging Skills and Occupations in the Future of Work

This project explores how the analysis of online generated labour market data can help us understand the relevance of new skills and sustainability of novel occupations.

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Building an Internet for the Social Good

This project will examine the role of digital media in improving social understanding, with a particular focus on how trust can develop in the shared understanding of history and climate change.

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AI, work and mediating the risks of automation: the role of lifelong learning

This project explores how human-AI relations can be conceptualized for lifelong, and the extent to which these relationships impact risks of automation in the workplace.

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Contemporary conspiracy theories on social media

This project seeks to understand the narrative, diffusion and socio-political effects of online conspiracy theories, concentrating on those which emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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