Information is the fundamental component of the technological advances that characterise our time. Increasing technological interactions between people, organisations, and artefacts generate, transmit, and process immense quantities of data about the social and physical world at an unprecedented rate and scale.
The digital transformation raises important philosophical questions, and research at the OII focuses on critically investigating these foundations and implications of this new revolution.
By Luciano Floridi
Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, exploring how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, and we transform it into information.
12 October 2022
Leading philosopher, Professor Luciano Floridi, has been granted Italy's most prestigious honour by the country's president, Sergio Mattarella.
12 May 2022
The UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK’s most recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
14 July 2021
Leading experts in ethics and law Dr Silvia Milano, Dr Brent Mittelstadt and Prof Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute look beyond the algorithm to consider the impact of online targeted advertising on consumers and the potential online harms.
10 September 2020
The Times, 27 October 2022
Our perception of becoming a mum is distorted by what we see on TikTok and Facebook. In the past two decades, social media and the anonymity of online forums have transformed the way we see and talk about motherhood.
The Huffington Post, 19 July 2022
Latest column from philosopher Professor Luciano Floridi, sharing his insights on contemporary society and the risks making it increasingly difficult to be happy, especially for the new generations.
Wired, 25 January 2013
Mark Graham is skeptical about on the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis.
