With Dr Madeleine Steeds and Dr Rebecca Swift
This year's Pride Lecture featured talks from Dr Madeleine Steeds and Dr Rebecca Swift on the topics of "Queer Joy as a Digital Good: Centring Joy in Research" and "Visual depictions of genders – Is advertising imagery getting any better?"
With Prof Tommaso Venturini
Tommaso will discuss the “New World Order” super-conspiracy theory to illustrate why it is so difficult to make sense of contemporary digital communication.
With Dr Tanja Ahlin
Based on experience with fieldwork by phone, webcams and through various communication applications, this talk explores ways in which the technologies that researchers engage with influence our field that cannot be clearly defined in spatial terms.
With Dr Isabelle Higgins
Isabelle explores how children deemed eligible for adoption in the USA are represented and monetised by a range of digital ‘adoption advocates’, including governments, private adoption agencies and adoptive parents.
With Professor Gabriel Brito
This talk explores the under-researched yet highly relevant phenomenon of cartel-related gang recruitment via social media.
With Clara Martiny
This presentation is based on a book set to be published in late 2025 with Cambridge University Press investigating the online "Reopen" protest movement against COVID-19 public health shutdowns in the United States.
With Dr Fabian Braesemann and Professor Paul X. McCarthy
The impact of founder personalities on startup success, how a predictive model outperforms industry standards to predict company success, and what factors can help us predict which startups will succeed.
With Dr Fabian Stephany
Fabian Stephany presents the latest findings on the changing relevance of AI skills at the Oxford Future of Professionals seminar with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
With Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo and Sir Chris Deverell
Our experts discuss why AI adoption in defence is slow - covering procurement, regulation, and tech hurdles - and how conflicts like the Ukraine war shape its future. They also call for public debate on risks and ethics.
With Dr Andrea Medrado, Prof Cheryll Soriano, Dr Janaki Srinivasan, Dr Jian Xiao, Dr Fadi Salem, Rutendo Chabikwa, Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar, Prof Tanja Bosch, Prof Patricia Peña, Prof César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño, and Dr Andrés Domínguez Hernández
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
With Dr Mohsen Mosleh and Cameron Martel
The link between misinformation and polarisation on social media, what's being done to combat misinformation and disinformation, the role of social media platforms and regulators, and where the research gaps are.
With Dr Cecilia Rikap
By exploring the interplay between the world’s corporate and political (super)powers, this presentation addresses the question: Who rules global capitalism, and why are digital technologies so crucial for governance and control?