With Dr Joss Wright
We tremblingly revisit a Bayesian analysis of seventy years of UFO sightings, drawn from a dataset collected by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)
With Dr Mohsen Mosleh
e examine the relationship between user engagement and news domains’ political orientation and quality across seven platforms: X/Twitter, BlueSky, TruthSocial, Gab, GETTR, Mastodon, and LinkedIn.
With Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor Helen Margetts, and Dr Keegan McBride
Watch OII experts Prof. Carl Frey and Prof. Helen Margetts as they explore social sciences' critical role in preparing us for the future.
With Professor Hannah Ruschemeier and Professor Rainer Mühlhoff
In this talk, we present our interdisciplinary approach to AI regulation by updating purpose limitation for AI. We address a critical blind spot in EU digital legislation: the secondary use of anonymised training data and pre-trained AI models.
With Dr Jennifer Allen and Reed Orchinik
"No need to lie: Falsehoods offer no persuasive advantage over biased facts" Dr Jennifer Allen "Beliefs and Adaptive Rationality: How Information Environments Shape Cognition" Reed Orchinik
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.