Videos

Are robots the solution to Japan’s care crisis?

With Dr James Wright

Drawing on fieldwork from the world’s largest care robot project in Japan & examining how robots have been developed and used in care homes

When technology delivers all of the instruction in a classroom: Immediate and longer-term impacts for learners

With Prof Carolyn Heinrich

Prof Carolyn Heinrich describes findings from a study of online course-taking in secondary education and discuss academic impacts

How the Web Should Work

With Jon Nash

This project proposes a series of technical, regulatory, and institutional interventions that reimagine the foundations of a modern internet built on privacy, interoperability, and consent.

Creepy Glitches: Data, Desire and Domestic Work

With Dr Kavita Dattani

Kavita draws on the work of feminist thinkers to take up the 'creepy glitch' as a framework to illuminate techno-masculinist normativities in data systems, and to find opportunities for disruption.

Do labour platforms reproduce inequalities?

With Pia Garavaglia

Pia Garavaglia analysed labour platforms in Argentina; their working conditions and the main effects of the COVID-19 crisis

Governing Digital China: Managing Citizen Participation under Political Change

With Prof Daniela Stockmann

Daniela's talk explored the impact of the technological design of social media platforms on user behaviour regarding politics in China.

Digital Identity Systems: Lessons from Kenya

With Dr Keegan McBride, Dr Ana Valdivia, Mustafa Mahmoud, Lori Roussey, and Yasah Musa

The panelists will evaluate regulatory frameworks, examine the role of digital ID in improving inclusivity & the impact on service delivery

OII/TUM Heilbronn series on AI Government & Policy: “Social media: from liberative force to (existential) danger for democracy?”

With Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Mahsa Alimardani, Dr Jens Foerderer, Dr Michaela Lindenmayr, Professor Helmut Krcmar, and Assistant Prof Maximilian Schreieck

A joint webinar from the OII and TUM about governments using technology to control citizens and Firms’ fake follower use. This event is supported by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation

Making Cringe Content: The Performativity of Algorithms in Creative Labor

With Prof Ashley Mears

Watch Ashley Mears as she explores how content creators aiming to go viral by following algorithms are creating cringe content.

Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies

With Prof Elizabeth J. Altman

Prof. Altman provides an overview of her book: Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies.

Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy

With Dr Sarrah Kassem

Watch Dr. Sarrah Kassem as she talks about her upcoming book that examines two Amazon platforms that differ in how they organize workers.

Guest talk from the UK Information Commissioner

With John Edwards

A lecture delivered by John Edwards, the UK Information Commissioner, hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute.