What are the opportunities and risks of the ever-increasing use of social media? On the one hand, social media brings us closer together and opens new networking opportunities. On the other, social media platforms are increasingly criticised for failing to halt the spread of misinformation.
Our research into social media considers the effects, positive and negative, of social media. It includes projects on the link between social media and political volatility, the use of social media to spread state-produced ‘computational propaganda’, and narratives of consumption on social media.
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge
Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone.
This project analyses Sweden's depiction online and in news media by foreign radical groups and how these depictions, in turn gains visibility in Swedish media
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.
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.
By Samantha Bradshaw and Philip N. Howard
Cyber troops manipulate public opinion over social media. This report summarises the findings of the first comprehensive inventory of the organizations behind social media manipulation, finding that cyber troops are a pervasive and global phenomenon.
19 July 2024
UKRI has announced its latest round of 68 Future Leaders Fellowships, of which the OII's Dr Luc Rocher was one of three Oxford recipients. The funds will enable them to work on making privacy technologies more transparent and accountable.
17 July 2024
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford has appointed Dr Mohsen Mosleh to the role of Associate Professor in Social Data Science.
8 July 2024
Dr Victoria Nash will continue as Director of the Oxford Internet Institute until the end of 2025.
3 July 2024
As the UK approaches a general election, Professor Vicki Nash outlines the challenges around online safety that will need to be addressed by the next government.
Business Insider, 23 July 2024
Elon Musk might be a full-blown Donald Trump crusader now, but that still didn't stop Joe Biden from turning to the billionaire's social media platform to make one of the biggest announcements in his career.
Reuters Institute, 06 June 2024
We give examples of how three chatbots reacted to questions and widely shared misinformation about the EU vote in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Digiday, 24 May 2024
As Google expands its new “AI Overview” feature, publishers are wondering to what degree AI-generated search results will negatively impact referral traffic. And while it’s too soon to tell the extent of the damage, some companies are hoping for more
