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The Association between Video Game Play and Cognition

This project studies video game play's association to cognition using novel methods that improve upon existing literature by studying gaming in its natural context, using actual game play data.

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How Much is Too Much? Leveraging Existing and Emerging Large-Scale Social Data to Build Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age

This project will capitalize on ESRC data resources to build a more nuanced and transparent empirical understanding of the impacts of digital technologies on young people.

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Internet Filtering and Children’s Exposure to Harmful Content

The use of Internet filters has outpaced scientific evidence suggesting they protect young people online. This project investigates whether Internet filters help make young people resilient in the Internet age.

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Related News

New £4 million Digital Good Network aims to ensure technologies are good for societies

3 November 2022

University of Oxford has joined a new £4 million research network, the Digital Good Network (DGN), to explore how to ensure that digital tech is a for good in society and the economy.

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Online engagement with arts and culture can have a positive impact on mental health in young people, finds new Oxford study

21 September 2022

A new study finds that engaging with arts and culture online can improve mental health in young people.

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‘Meta must do better’ Global experts call for Zuckerberg to act on adolescent wellbeing 

5 December 2021

Academics from around the world urge Mark Zuckerberg to commit to better research on the mental health of children and adolescents in an open letter.

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Study suggests little to no increase over time in association between adolescents’ technology engagement and mental health problems, urges more transparent collaborations between academia and industry

4 May 2021

A new Oxford University study examined data from over 430,000 adolescents in the UK and US to investigate how associations between adolescents’ technology use and mental health have changed over the past 30 years.

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Press Coverage

Online engagement in the arts and mental health

BBC Radio Oxford, 27 September 2022

Oxford academic Dr Rebecca J Syed Sheriff explains how engaging with arts online can have a positive impact on mental health in young people.

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Oxford study finds arts and culture improve young people’s mental health

Jack FM, 22 September 2022

Oxford researchers have examined the impact on depression and anxiety in 16-24 year-olds, in partnership with the Ashmolean Museum.

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Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time

The Guardian, 15 September 2022

Scientists are developing an AI system that aims to recreate the nuances of humour by laughing in the right way at the right time. The team behind the laughing robot, say the system could improve natural conversation.

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Videos

Video games habits findings

With Professor Andrew Przybylski

Professor Andrew Przybylski discusses the results of his latest research. that finds little causal relationship between video gaming and well-being.

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